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Diabetes Connect is a community health-led integrated care pathway for people with type 2 diabetes. It is being piloted by select community health services across Victoria until June 2025.
Diabetes Connect seeks to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes, reduce avoidable diabetes progression and hospitalisation, and improve coordination between primary, community and acute care services.
Diabetes Connect will provide:
- a care coordination approach that connects people with the clinical and social services and supports they need to meet their health and wellbeing goals, with a focus on social prescribing and improving self-management capacity
- risk adjusted interventions including health coaching, remote monitoring and virtual check-ins, with response and escalation protocols to manage clinical and or social deterioration
- a flexible and risk adjusted funding model to promote better care coordination and workforce flexibility, and improve access to multidisciplinary care for the management of chronic disease.
Diabetes Connect pilot sites
Diabetes Connect will be piloted in five locations across metropolitan and regional Victoria and will run until 30 June 2025. The pilot sites are:
Metropolitan Melbourne
| Area | Lead agency |
|---|---|
Northern Melbourne | DPV Health DPV Health - Diabetes Connect fact sheet pdf 704.14 KB | Updated: 7 May 2024 |
Western Melbourne | IPC Health IPC Health - Diabetes Connect fact sheet pdf 336.68 KB | Updated: 3 May 2024 |
Eastern Melbourne | Consortia led by healthAbility, with EACH and Access Health & Community healthAbility, EACH and Access Health and Community - Diabetes Connect fact sheet pdf 423.66 KB | Updated: 6 November 2024 |
Regional Victoria
| Area | Lead agency |
|---|---|
Gippsland | Latrobe Community Health Latrobe Community Health Service - Diabetes Connect fact sheet pdf 719.53 KB | Updated: 3 May 2024 |
Western region | Grampians Community Health Grampians Community Health - Diabetes Connect fact sheet pdf 722.67 KB | Updated: 3 May 2024 |
Translated resources
The Diabetes Connect fact sheet provides more information about the pilot and is available in 11 languages:
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Arabic)
pdf 285.38 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Burmese)
pdf 278.82 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Chinese - Simplified)
pdf 332.16 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Chinese - Traditional)
pdf 351.19 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Greek)
pdf 267.28 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Italian)
pdf 253.61 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Karen)
pdf 277.95 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Macedonian)
pdf 264.62 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Punjabi)
pdf 279.53 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Somali)
pdf 254.14 KB
Diabetes Connect fact sheet (Turkish)
pdf 254.52 KB
Diabetes Connect is being funded as part of the Commonwealth Government’s Primary Care Pilots initiative which tests innovative models that reduce pressure on Emergency Departments.
Reviewed 23 August 2024
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