Panelists:

Chris Jones, Central Eastern Sydney PHN

Trudy Brown, Northern Health, Victoria

Abiola Albert, Gold Coast Health

Ben Wells, Neami National

Facilitated by:

Shannon Harwood

All workshops are NOT live streamed

1. EW actions in health promotion & preventative health workshop (session is not live streamed)

Title: Protecting health & reducing hospitalisation with equitable access to vaccines

People living with mental health conditions have 3 times the death rate, 5 times the hospitalisation rate and 7 times the hospital bed days due to vaccine preventable conditions. More people with mental illness die each year of influenza than suicide, and while suicide rates have stubbornly stayed stable for the last 30 years, vaccination is proven, effective way to protect health. Australia has a baffling array of vaccine providers and vaccine eligibility criteria (which can vary from state to state!).

This workshop will outline the range of vaccines available, eligibility and the range of providers. Workshop participants will explore the barriers to accessing vaccination and strategies to increase vaccine uptake.

The workshop will also present the learnings from implementation of a system (state) wide program to increase the vaccine uptake in people accessing public mental health services. The lessons learnt from this two-year program provide valuable insights and lesson for the implementation quality improvement programs generally.

Facilitated by:

John Allan, Equally Well Alliance

Presenter(s):

Melissa Fidock, SA Health

Nerida Grosser, SA Health

Cherie Power, NSW Health

Keira Mathews, NSW Health

2. EW actions in primary care workshop (session is not live streamed)

Title: Holistic Practice: making the best of what we’ve got in primary care.

This workshop will unpack both the challenges and opportunities for addressing EW actions in the primary care setting and between primary and secondary/tertiary care.

We will use this workshop to focus on the WHOLE person’s health care needs, using what already exists in the primary health care system, warts and all!

If you work in primary care or attend primary care settings for your health care, this workshop is for you.

If you work in other mental health services (secondary, tertiary, community, or hospital) this workshop is also for you, if you want to help improve the integration between primary care and where you work.

In other words, EVERYONE is welcome.

Facilitated by:

Caroline Johnson, RACGP

Presenter(s):

Amanda Wheeler, Griffith University

Simone McCallum, Eastern Health

3. EW actions in secondary, hospital, & continuing care workshop (session is not live streamed)

Title: Cancer: Optimising prevention, screening & care

Australia is the world leader in cancer treatment, yet 45% percent of all premature deaths of people living with mental health conditions are due to cancer. (For the rest of the population this figure is 25%). This is despite the fact that the incidence of cancer is the same or lower in people living with mental health conditions, and we have free screening programs, and survival rates of over 90% for the most common cancers. This interactive workshop will work through initiatives we can action to reduce this inequity, including collectively mapping optimal cancer prevention, screening and treatment pathways for people living with mental health conditions.

Facilitated by:

Fiona Crawford-Williams, McGrath Foundation

Kate Whittaker, Cancer Council

Presenter(s):

Russell Roberts, Equally Well

4. EW actions in shared care workshop (session is not live streamed)

Title: Collaborative Health Care: Engaging GPs with Mental Health Services

The GP Shared Care Presentation will showcase to participants a PHN project that has sought to improve connections and collaboration between state mental health providers and GPs in the care of people living with complex and enduring mental health problems. This will include a focus on the recent GP Shared Care redesign in the CESPHN region, which emphasised physical health, consistency and streamlining of approaches, and methods to incentivise and support GP involvement in the physical health care of people living with a mental illness.

This session will also partner with an experienced General Practitioner who is currently aiming to establish Shared Care approaches in the region where she works & the presentation will draw on her experiences and recommendations, as well as offer some experimental opportunities for group members, including interactive client case studies.

Facilitated by:

Clare Keogh, SA RACGP

Chris Jones, Central Eastern Sydney PHN

Phoebe Marshall-Luu, Central Eastern Sydney PHN

Presenter(s):

More to come

Theme – Lived experience perspectives & codesign

Room: 1

Facilitator: Ben Wells

Speaker 1: Ellie Brown & Rosiel Elwyn

SiMPliCITy Study: Mapping & co-designing enablers of physical wellbeing

Speaker 2: Kyra Dhedhi

Comorbidities & Conundrums – A Lived Experience Guide to working with young people

Speaker 3: Uzma Choudhry

Co-designing a physical activity program for adult survivors of child sexual abuse

Speaker 4: Harry Singh

Across the divide – physical health provision for mental health consumers

Theme – Implementation & service improvement

Room: 2

Facilitator: Catherine O’Donnell

Speaker(s) 1: John Stevens & Kate Jackson

Improving physical health for older mental health consumers through statewide action

Speaker(s) 2: Annette Sorianosos & Thelma Muchenje

Equally Well Movement in Prison with Nurse Practitioners in Chronic Disease Management

Speaker(s) 3: Andrea Baas & Sarah Skinner

Putting Principles into Practice: The Equally Well Journey in SALHN Mental Health

Speaker(s) 4: Hannah Albanese & Nicholas Procter

Better Together: Elevating Physical Health in Mental Health Care

Theme – Finding solutions & identifying critical issues

Room: 3

Facilitator: Dave Peters

Speaker(s) 1: Hazel Dalton & Amrita Dasvarma

Service provider perspectives: challenges & opportunities of a physical healthcare navigator

Speaker(s) 2: Reza Rostami

Five-Year Low Physical Activity, Parental Anger, & Mental Health in Refugee Families

Speaker(s) 3: Victoria Stewart

No mental health without oral health: addressing systemic neglect in Australian care

Speaker(s) 4: Chiara Mastrogiovanni

Attitudes, Confidence & Knowledge of Mental Health Professionals to Promote Physical Activity

Theme – Lightning Presentations

Room: 4

Facilitator: Amanda Wheeler

Speaker(s) 1: Lisa Wilton & Mai Duong

One Team, One Plan: Developing SA’s Mental Health, GP Shared Care Model

Speaker(s) 2: Smonda Kok

Embedding Dietetic Support in a Clozapine Clinic to Address Metabolic Health

Speaker(s) 3: Lucy Wheeler

Incorporating Living Experience to Improve Adult Mental Health Inpatient Food Service Systems

Speaker(s) 4: Steven Hutchinson & Jac Fortunaso

Mindfulness self-management resources to reduce anxiety & depression in people in custody

Speaker(s) 5: Lisa Wilton

Empowering Recovery: Co-Designing Physicards for Physical Health in Mental Health Rehab

Speaker(s) 6: Justin Chapman

Development of the Call to Action: Perspective from the 2024 Equally Well Forum

Speaker(s) 6: Claire Jones

Medication Optimisation; a practical approach to supporting the Equally Well Principles

Speaker(s) 7: Amrita Dasvarma

Lived Experience Perspectives on the Physical Health Care Navigators Project