The Statewide Brain and Spinal Cord Injury (BaSCI) project will implement key actions in the Statewide adult brain injury rehabilitation health service plan 2016-2026 and the Statewide adult spinal cord injury health service plan 2016-2026 to support standardised access to services and improve data collection to enable considered service monitoring and ongoing improvement. Additionally, models to improve access to specialist rehabilitation services will be implemented by participating Hospital and Health Services (HHSs) across the state. These will overcome existing barriers and boost service and system capability and capacity.
The Statewide Brain and Spinal Cord Injury (BaSCI) Project
Summary
Aim
The Statewide BaSCI Project aims to improve health services and patient outcomes for people with acquired brain and/or spinal cord injuries in Queensland requiring adult specialist rehabilitation care. By providing timely access to safe and quality networked care that is closer to home patients will transition to the community in a supported way with improved outcomes and experiences.
Benefits
- Equitable and timely access to specialised brain and/or spinal cord injury rehabilitation, transition and outreach support services in Queensland, regardless of where a patient lives
- Improved patient experience and outcomes
- Increased capacity and capability of specialist brain injury and spinal cord injury rehabilitation, transition and outreach services to provide optimal person-centred care and meet increasing service demand
- Reduced variation through improved coordination, consistency and standardisation of care processes within and between services
- Enhanced data collection to demonstrate improved outcomes, efficiency and effectiveness
Background
Health services required for people with acquired brain injury (ABI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) are resource intensive being both highly specialised and costly to provide. This has resulted in ABI and SCI services being offered in single or minimal locations. This centralised service model may have a detrimental effect on the experiences and outcomes of patients and their families who do not live locally.
The Statewide adult brain injury rehabilitation health service plan 2016-2026 and the Statewide adult spinal cord injury health service plan 2016-2026, seek to address such inequities, and consequently access and patient outcomes by broadening delivery of high-quality specialised rehabilitation services and skills in Queensland. Funding from the Commonwealth Community Health and Hospitals Program (CHHP) will enable Queensland Health to implement actions in the plans to improve adult brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation services.