12 May 2020
NSW Health’s Agency for Clinical Innovation has developed resources to support healthcare workers care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The newly published A&TSI Health Professionals Resource Toolkit has been developed in collaboration with Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA), Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) and Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM).
- The toolkit includes posters on important contacts, tips and information to assist our A&TSI health professionals care for themselves, as well as posters to care for their communities. It is available at the following link A&TSI Health Professionals Resource Toolkit.
- The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Association (NATSIHWA) has also developed an A&TSI Health Worker and Health Practitioner Exemplar Health Assessment flowchart to support a safe work environment during the COVID-19 crisis for A&TSI health worker and health practitioner professionals. The flowchart includes traditional face-to-face Medicare item numbers centred around a client’s journey throughout a 715 Health Assessment which is overlayed by COVID-19 video and teleconferencing Medicare item numbers.
Please find attached additional COVID-19 health resources.
Community of Practise Update – 5 May 2020
Heart Foundation COVID-19 Resource
ACI/COVID-19 respiratory lung function testing resource
Health Consumers NSW COVID-19 resource