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This document outlines key issues, writing processes, timelines, and consultation details for the drafting of national health strategies. It covers important topics such as BBVSS, expert writing groups, consultation methods, and key deadlines to be met. The development process, key timelines, and priorities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health are elaborated.
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National Strategies Development 2009 Levinia Crooks ASHM Coordinating the Drafting
Issues to be covered • Important issues for BBVSS • Process • Expert Writing Reference Groups • Timelines • S & T Health & Health Ministers’ needs • Areas of key interest • Additional consultation
Important issues for BBVSS • Commonwealth and State & Territory adoption or endorsement of the strategies • What will be required by Departments, Ministers and advisers and when • Key partner & sector endorsement • What will be required and when
Key deadlines • Next AHMC 11 November • Next AHMAC 8 October • Subsequent AHMC 15 and 16 April 2010
Process • Drafting overseen by MACBBVS • Expert Writing Reference Groups chair and deputy chair from MACBBVS • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses • HIV • Sexually Transmitted Infections • Viral Hepatitis • Five writers
Five Strategies + Summary • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses • Hepatitis B • Hepatitis C • HIV • Sexually Transmitted Infections • Overarching statement (executive summary)
Expert Writing Reference Groups • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander SH & BBV Strategy • Mark Wenitong • Cindy Shannon • HIV • Graham Brown • Andrew Grulich
Expert Writing Reference Groups • Sexually Transmitted Infections • Darren Russell • Marian Pitts • Viral Hepatitis • Bob Batey • Helen McNeil
Writing Group • Levinia Crooks • John Godwin • Jacqui Richmond • Jan Savage • Jack Wallace • Rae Neill - Admin
Project Team • Michael Kidd – Chair MACBBVS • EWRG Chairs and Deputies • Writing Group • Erin Bowen – DoHA
Key Timelines • It is essential to consider any key dates put forward by: • State and Territory Health Departments • NGO Peaks • DoHA has set deadlines for project • Project Team is trying to meet deadlines though there has been considerable delay to start date due in part to swine flu
Consultation – in writing • Initial consultation by 5 Aug (4 Aug HIV) to contribute to first EWRG meetings later submissions will be considered as they come in up to 21 August • Drafts out 1 September feedback to 12 Sept • Revised drafts out 18 September feedback to 30 Sept
Consultation – oral • Telephone conference with each EWRG • Face-to-face meeting with each EWRG • EWRG Chair and Deputy Chair (+/- other members and writers) consultation hearings: • 12th September • Additional dates and locations (particularly to access hard to reach stakeholders)
State & Territory Health needs • This occasion via BBVSS • What will we need to provide to you to background Ministers’? • Do you want to engage Ministerial Advisors, Advisory Committees? • Any other constraints or requirements? • Invitation to participate in any consultations
Advisory or Other Committee? • Is there a Ministerial Advisory Committee structure in your jurisdiction? • When will this group meet, in order to review strategies when would these be required? • Would a briefing be appropriate? • Can you provide dates and contacts • Invitations to consultation on 12th Sept?
Framework for strategies • Each will follow similar form, based on strategies to date • Hepatitis B will follow similar form • All strategies will include issues and priorities for Indigenous Australians • Implementation plans will be referred to in each strategy, as will • Research, responsibilities & monitoring
Priorities • The main work of the EWRG will focus on the establishment to priorities for the strategy and how activity and performance will be measured • This may involve the continued inclusion of some issues from former strategies, the inclusion of new priorities and the reworking or recasting of others
Targets and measures • Careful consideration of high level targets for inclusion in the strategies • The possible inclusion of measurable targets • The possible inclusion of performance targets, aspirational targets & benchmarks • Detailed lower order indicators will be set as part of the implementation process
Brainstorming • Time permitting I would like to consider some brainstorming of: • strengths and weaknesses of the existing strategies • priorities for further exploration
Possible Additional Consults • Darwin – General/ATSI • Cairns – Sexual Health/TSI focus • Port Headland – ATSI/rural and remote • Alice Springs – ATSI/rural and remote • Perth – General • Melbourne – HBV +
National consultation day - DRAFT • Saturday 12 September 2009 • Brisbane Convention Centre • 08:30 – 09:30 Closed hearings • 09:30 – 13:30 Public Consultation Workshops & Panel • 14:00 – 15:30 Closed writing tasks • 15:30 – 17:00 Closed Discussion Full Panel & next steps