A community of practice to strengthen pre-hospital interventions and post-discharge care for mental health crises in north Queensland hospitals

Grant ID: EMJS-404R36-2021-STONE

Project Summary

Communities of practice (CoP) are widely used to strengthen and enhance healthcare, by generating and sharing knowledge and improving organisational performance. In Australia CoPs have been used in fields such as healthcare improvement, mental health and mental health literacy, and workplace health and wellbeing and more recently in response to COVID 19.

This project will assess the possible scope for a CoP, and the extent to which a CoP might find support among collaborating service organisations, to focus attention on issues surrounding emergency mental health presentations to hospital emergency departments (EDs) in north Queensland.


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Amount Awarded
$39,596


Program


Grant Scheme


Status
Active


Principal Investigator:
Dr Richard Stone


Co Investigators:
Prof Alan Clough


Associate Investigators:
Snr Constable Angela Evans
Ms Katherine Nielsen
Dr Annabel Sommerville
Dr Michael Tervitt


Institution


Collaborating Institutions


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