Clayton, Victoria, Australia
My major health care focus is to improve the experience of illness and the experience of care through supporting the human capacity to heal, and the human capacity to care and support others. This work is now being conducted primarily through the Patient Journey Record System program. I am highly committed to a generalist approach to clinical care and primary health care. I am involved in developing the role of the primary care physician in concert with the developing roles of care managers, primary care nurses and care guides. My current vision is to continue to bring the notion of dynamic systems into health systems design and evaluation. I am highly supportive of others who have the courage to think outside of the very conservative medical framework and rigorously work with new methodologies and new ideas. Practically this work is being conducted with my long standing colleague Joachim Sturmberg through the Forum on Systems and Complexity in Health in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice edited by Andrew Miles in an ongoing process and the Handbook on Systems and Complexity in Health published 2012.
Currently working on MonashWatch programme. http://www.monashhealth.org/page/monashwatch