Integrated Team Care

Integrated Team Care is a program delivered by a team of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Workers and Care Coordinators across the Indigenous and mainstream primary care sectors, to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to obtain primary health care as required, provide care coordination services to eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic disease/s who require coordinated, multidisciplinary care, and improve access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to culturally appropriate mainstream primary care.

The outcomes of the program are to :

1. contribute to better treatment and management of chronic conditions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enrolled on ITC;
2. improve access to appropriate health care through care coordination and provision of Supplementary Services for eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic disease/s;
3. foster collaboration and support between the mainstream primary care and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Sectors;
4. improve the capacity of mainstream primary care services to deliver culturally safe services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and;
5. increase uptake of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander specific Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items, including Health Assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and follow up items.