Primary Health Networks (PHN) and Local Health Districts (LHD)/Hospitals and Health Services (HHS) play a key role in identifying mothers and children who need specialised support and referring them onward to evidence based support programs. Strong and’ a timely impetus to buddy up and flesh out what a ‘good’ maternal and child health system could look like.

The Buurtzorg Model has transformed community-based aged nursing in the Netherlands, at scale, to keep older adults healthy and out of hospital. But can the Buurtzorg Model be translated to the Australian context? Is it possible to reverse or better leverage the trend of an increasingly non-clinical in-home aged care workforce? How do we shift from delivering aged care services transactionally to relationally?

After the successful commencement of a recent stakeholder engagement and community development contract in partnership with a not-for-profit, we have gained a number of insights into how external resourcing can support the NFP sector to deliver on service delivery contracts. Read on for our thinking on how to strike the optimal balance of direct employment and external resourcing for your NFP.

In a new wave of suicide prevention policies and activities aiming to stem the growing rate of suicide, the Queensland Mental Health Commission have recently released ‘Every life’, The Queensland Suicide Prevention Plan for 2019-2029. In this blog, we explore what the plan means for your organisation and clients.

In our final blog of the year, we recap on 'the year that was' by showcasing the broad variety of projects we have delivered in 2019 as well as re-sharing all blogs released on our website throughout the year (ideal for reading over the holidays).

Social Return on Investment or SROI is an evaluative approach that combines participatory evaluation with aspects of economic analysis. We take a look at what SROI is (and isn’t), how it differs from other evaluation approaches, and some tips on when to consider using it to evaluate your work.

In consulting, you have to remain at the forefront of many different areas of your field. Mental health is a nation-wide public health priority and thus a hot topic for many organisations that we work with in health and social services. Being informed about all the sectors we work across is one of our core values.

Economics can certainly add the ‘oomph’ factor. Economic tools deal with how well (or poorly) we are using available resources from dollars to human capital, and as the old saying goes ‘there is more than one way to cook an egg’. In the last blog within our Health Economist series, we draw on a couple of examples to show how they can be used to help commissioning organisations.

Resource-based allocation exercises, such as the one we discussed in our previous blogs can be powerful catalysts for moving towards outcomes-based commissioning as it puts a transparent funding formula supported by the best available evidence on the co-design table.