Hi, I'm Peter Cochrane and I was a recipient of what we called SCOT, or the Shared Care for Opioid Treatment. Well, the EB10: Nurses and Midwives Innovation Fund allowed us to develop a model of care, a shared care for people experiencing opioid dependence. It aligned with the criteria in that it was nurses leading the project. It was looking at something that was innovative, not done before in our field, and was really looking to build our capacity and improve our services so that we can better meet the demands on the services coming into the future. We were provided with $310,000 to enable one and a half FTE of clinical nurse consultants to develop our project. And one of the largest unexpected challenges I guess was COVID. We're trying to increase our capacity to look after priority presentations in our services, particularly like the ones that will be coming out of prison when they're released from prison. To do this, the treatment prison services were going to be introduced at the start of our project. There was a delay in that, and so we couldn't really work on the system with the prisons. We really focused then on our shared care aspect with the GPs, and we started to do that by going and visiting general practise in our local area. Then, of course, COVID came along and affected the community significantly. We really had reduced access to general practise at that time due to their COVID response. This made us refocus again, and we really worked with our patients, our stable patients and their individual GPs. And that really helped us to get a good model going that was quite specific. We could focus it very quickly, develop some really good resources that we were user testing as we were doing the work. The other difficulty that came about because of COVID was introducing a new shared model or a new model of treatment at a time when our under-resourced services were also really under pressure from COVID, and changing the way that they operated with our patients to make sure that there was continuous treatment and no interruptions to their treatment during the period. I think the really good opportunities that we had that were unexpected was, and probably particularly because of the way we had to refocus was the opportunity to work with people working in general practise, so doctors and general practise staff, as well as our own staff in a bit of an educative role in working with them, bringing them to the concept of a new model, educating them on what the new model could look like and why it would actually work, and why it would be better for our patients as well. And that was an unexpected opportunity and with it though, it brought a lot of support for what we were doing. Probably the highlight for me during the project was the overwhelming positive response from GPs to work with the Queensland Health, with our service, the Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Service, to provide the best care for their patients. It was very reinforcing, and out of that, we have established some really good connections that will hopefully actually be a working model where we don't actually just put one patient out to the services but we actually set up a strategic model of care where we work with a number of general practise to actually increase our capacity for our services to look after the complex and priority patients. But also for general practise to support their patients for their healthcare needs in the right place for them. I think that what we've shown is that with the right resources and support, a shared care model can actually work for our treatment group for people that are experiencing opioid dependence. We were able to develop a number of resources. Would now allow a clinician to work with their patient to get them into a shared care situation with their GP if they were wanting to, and the resources are also extensive enough that a health service could actually use them to put into their treatment framework if they were wanting to do so across the whole services. The project has highlighted the viability of a shared care model of treatment for people experiencing opioid dependence, particularly if the right supports are in place. Through the project, we developed some resources that would enable a clinician to be able to work with their patient and move them into shared care if they wish but the resources we established were significant enough to allow a service to develop an overall treatment framework if they were wanting to do so. I hope that you have found this presentation from the Nursing and Midwifery Showcase series informative. Please take the time to check out other projects that highlight the nursing and midwifery excellence in Queensland Health.