Dear ISPRN members

We are writing to let you know that applications are now open for Coordinare’s GP research project grant.

You may well have come across an issue surrounding chronic disease in your practice and pondered the answer to your question. This grant is the perfect opportunity to find out the answer to your research question.

You don’t need to have had any prior research experience, just an idea and a willingness to learn how to undertake research, fully supported by a research and academic team.

Applications close 13 Feb 2017.

If you have any queries please contact Program Assistant, Alyssa Horgan on 42215819.

Kind Regards,

Alyssa Horgan

GP Research project application

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to invite you and your colleagues to two workshops being conducted by the Australian Health Services Research Institute on Thursday 9 March 2017:

1. Measuring and Managing Health Outcomes: An Overview
2. Outcomes Evaluation and Benchmarking: Applications of Outcome Measurement

Professor Kathy Eagar (Director, Australian Health Services Research Institute), Associate Professor Jan Sansoni (Director, Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration) and Ms Frances Simmonds (Director, Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre), experts in the field of health outcomes and benchmarking, will provide an overview of the current Australian and international focus on health outcomes and discuss the different types of measures and indicators used in health outcomes evaluation. Health outcomes will be discussed in relation to population health, evidence based health care, quality improvement, outcome benchmarking and ‘value-based’ health care activities undertaken by health and community care organisations. The use of patient-reported outcome and experience measures and standardised outcome measurement suites will be reviewed within the context of quality improvement and health service evaluation.

These workshops would be relevant to health professionals and to those undertaking post-graduate studies in health.

The workshops will be held at the University of Wollongong’s Sydney Business School, Gateway Building, 1 Macquarie Place, Circular Quay.

I would appreciate if you could please distribute this information to relevant staff and students within your organisation. View more information and book your place. We hope to see you there.

Yours faithfully,

Moira Buckley, on behalf of:
Associate Professor Jan Sansoni
Director, Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration
Australian Health Services Research Institute
University of Wollongong
+61 2 4221 4411