Broader Needs Assessment (BNA) Tool Project

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Broader Needs Assessment (BNA) Tool Project

• Phase 2
• Broader Rollout
• Local Government
• Gretchen Strauss Peter Cracknell

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• Background
• Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Primary Care
  Partnership identified Assessment as a key area
  for development
• Phase 1 BNA Tool Development and trial in a
  Clinical Setting (Peninsula Health)
• Phase 2 Broader roll out, further development
  and trail of BNA Tool for a Living at Home
  setting

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• Background
• Seeding Grant Funding became available for a HACC
  ASM Project through the Department of Health
• Successful joint application by Partners
• Frankston City Council
• Mornington Peninsula Shire
• Primary Care Partnership

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• Project Objectives
• To build on work Phase 1 of BNA Project
  (Development of BNA Tool for Clinical Setting)
  and develop a BNA tool for use in Living at Home
  setting
• To strengthen Assessment and Care Planning to
  align with Department of Health HACC Assessment
  Guidelines

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• Coordination of the Project
• FMPPCP coordinated the Project including regular
  meetings, audit, summary of findings and
  preparation of final report
• Involvement of Community Health to ensure
  consistency of the Domains identified through
  that project flowed through to this project
• Enabled Assessment staff to focus on trialling
  BNA in Living at home setting

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• Project Process
• Develop an evaluation tool to evidence outcomes
  from trial
• Gather and review Assessment Tools currently used
  from a range of organisations
• Assessment staff from both LGAs cooperatively
  develop a template suitable to trial in a Living
  at Home setting
• Undertake pre and post audits of assessment data
  collected (40 files from each LGA)

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• Project Process
• BNA Tool developed trialled over a 2 month period
• Frankston 6 Staff for new Assessments
• Mornington 9 staff for new Assessments and
  Reassessments
• Collected feedback on using BNA from individual
  Assessment Officers
• Facilitated Focus group feedback sessions

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• Project Findings
• BNA tool support an holistic assessment process
  provides a mechanism to clearly document an
  holistic living at home assessment (with an ASM
  focus)
• BNA tool provides a systematic structured
  approach to assessment leading to improved client
  centred care plans so improved goal setting and
  capacity in clients outcomes can be realised
• Domains in BNA tool support consistent
  identification of HACC clients broad needs for
  more effective referrals
• BNA tool Improved collection of information in
  Health Related Behaviours domains (smoking,
  alcohol, gambling and nutrition)

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• Project Outcomes
• Final BNA tool is very comprehensive valuable
  tool for new Assessment Officers to follow
• Experienced Assessment Officers use as a guide to
  ensure all domains are covered
• Partnership approach was excellent to share
  resources and information
• Buy in from Assessment teams who could see their
  feedback included in the improvements to the BNA
  tool

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• Project Outcomes
• BNA Tool looks long but it is capturing
  information more consistently than before (SCTT
  targets initial needs identification where BNA
  Tool targets more holistic questions at
  Assessment stage of client journey)
• BNA Tool provides evidence that an Holistic
  Assessment has been undertaken
• Having a coordinating partner (PCP) to bring
  everything together strong benefit

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• Post Pilot Implementation
• New BNA Tool adopted for ongoing use by Frankston
  City Council and Mornington Peninsula Shire
• The BNA Tool template findings from this
  project have received positive feedback from the
  Department of Health

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• Support with BNA Project - Thanks to
• Julie White Community Health FMPPCP
• Lyn McKay FMPPCP
• Juliet Frizzell Juliet Frizzell Consulting
• Assessment staff at Frankston City Council and
  Mornington Peninsula Shire Council
• Full Report Available at
• www.peninsulahealth.org.au/health-professionals/fr
  ankston-mornington-peninsula-primary-care-partners
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