Our Vision
To improve the health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to a standard at least equal to that of the wider Australian community by providing holistic healthcare and medical services that meet best practice standards
Our Mission
To equip the organization with the appropriate medical facilities and resources to deliver programs in a culturally appropriate and sensitive manner to improve the health and well-being of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the service region
Research Vision
To make Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) People’s and other communities healthier by improving their experiences during ATSI healthcare service consumption through high-quality health research
Research Objectives
- To ensure continued delivery of high-quality culturally appropriate health services that responds to the changing health needs of GHSs consumers.
- To increase GHSs research capacity and profile
- To further develop and employ evidence-based practices within the ATSI health services as well as influence future funding and policy development.
Get in Contact
Goondir Health Services
Better Health, Better Living, Longer Life
If you want to get in contact with us, please use the phone numbers below for your local clinic
Dalby Clinic
4 Jimbour Street, Dalby, QLD.
CLINIC:
ADMINISTRATION:
St George Clinic
Location:
127 Victoria Street, St George, QLD.
Phone:
07 4625 5040
Oakey Clinic
Address: 110 Campbell Street, Oakey, QLD.
Phone: 07 4691 3372
Chinchilla Clinic
Address:
75 Middle Street, Chinchilla, QLD.
Phone:
Research & Evaluation Project Process
Research & Evaluation Project Process
Goondir Research Agenda
- To Closing the existing gap between evidence and practice through research outcomes that build on existing knowledge of ATSI health service models.
- Develop new evidence for ATSI health service models which can be safely integrated into other existing health services to leverage on complementary strengths.
- Building and encouraging more effective and innovative research methodologies which are based on health service practice and demonstrate achievable measurable outcomes for health consumers.
- Develop collaborative research partnership with higher education and other research institutions which demonstrate the use of existing knowledge and expertise of partners.
Evaluation Activities
- To ensure continued delivery of high-quality culturally appropriate health services that responds to the changing health needs of GHSs consumers.
- To increase GHSs research capacity and profile
- To further develop and employ evidence-based practices within the ATSI health services
Research and Research Partnerships
UQ Partnerships with Goondir: Research Projects
Medical Research Futures Fund: Digital Health Transformation of Rural Primary Health Care Through an Innovative Digital Indigenous Primary Health Care Delivery Model: ID-INSPIRED
The University of Queensland’s Rural Clinical School has partnered with Goondir Health Services (GHS) and the University of Southern Queensland to design and develop a new model of care (ID-INSPIRED). This program integrates Virtual Health Services (VHS), Point of Care Testing (POCT) and digital technologies to transform the way primary health care is delivered. Patients with multiple chronic diseases, equipped with Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) devices, receive quality health care through the VHS program. Clinicians can screen, monitor, and manage patients via digital communication, empowering patients to have an active role in their own health while ensuring equitable access to culturally safe health care.
ID-INSPIRED model aims to improve health outcomes, reduce costs (avoided hospitalisations, reduction in travel), enhance patients’ quality of life with continuity of care, as well as address health care system workflow inefficiencies, by bridging geographical and cultural barriers through digital innovation. The community-driven approach will provide a tangible, culturally appropriate model of care that is readily accepted and adopted. An increased focus on co-designed approach, will make the model sustainable and scalable, ensuring that successful outcomes are achieved and lead to long-term health impact.
This project will ultimately inform strategies to address the high burden of chronic disease among rural and remote communities by providing a culturally safe, co-designed and Indigenous-led health service.
Consumer Participation in Research
- GHSs consumers are offered a continuum of research involvement opportunities, which include the following:
- Identify research opportunities and needs by participation in the meetings of Research and Evaluation Committee and relevant conferences and workshops
- Contribute to decision-making regarding research design and research activities – research processes as well as facilitate the communication/dissemination of research research/findings to relevant audiences while integrating research outcomes into service delivery consumption.
Communicating Research Activities
- Regular internal distribution of research bulletins summarizing research activities.
- Presentation at GHSs key events and meetings
- Presentation of research updates for health service consumers in relevant formats – newsletters, brochures, posters, etc.
- Publication of research findings in trustworthy peer-reviewed journal articles
- Distribution of research findings and information updated on GHSs Intranet and Internet sites.
Staff Participation in Research Activities
- Regular internal distribution of research bulletins summarizing research activities.
- Integrate evaluation principles and practice into their work.
- Collect, use/leverage data from evaluation activities regularly.
- Translate and use findings from evaluation activities to improve service delivery programs and health outcomes for ATSI population.
GOONDIR ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS CORPORATION FOR HEALTH SERVICES
4 Jimbour Street, Dalby QLD 4405, Australia4
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