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The Queensland Government’s Smart State: Health 2020 Directions Statement outlines the Government’s vision for a healthy population and a dynamic, sustainable health system capable of meeting the challenges of health service provision in the 21st century. Smart State: Health 2020’s vision is ‘The best health and quality of life in Australia and a health system that ranks with the world’s best’.
The key challenges facing the Queensland health system in the coming two decades include:
The vision recognises that these challenges will require fundamental and substantial changes to the current system of health service delivery in order to achieve financial and physical resource sustainability. These changes will be characterised by a greater emphasis on:
The major directions in the Smart State: Health 2020 Directions Statement are developed around the following two themes, each with a series of strategies:
Improving the Health of Queenslanders in 2020
Developing the Health Care System of 2020
Smart State: Health 2020 and the Integrating Strategy and Performance (ISAP) process
Queensland Health has commenced a process of integrating strategy development, implementation and measurement of performance through the Integrating Strategy and Performance (ISAP) process.
ISAP was initiated to:
ISAP will use the Balanced Scorecard approach as a framework for strategy development and performance management.
Smart State: Health 2020 provides the strategic directions for Queensland Health. ISAP is the planning and implementation vehicle that Queensland Health is using to achieve these directions.
Smart State: Health 2020 directions have been reflected in the objectives identified in the following strategic themes:
Last updated: October 2003
Last Reviewed: October 2003
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