Queensland Rural and Remote Maternity Services Planning Framework
The Queensland Rural and Remote Maternity Services Planning Framework: a toolkit for collaboration, consultation and co-design (PDF 813 kB) is a resource to support Hospital and Health Services (HHSs) to collaborate with consumers and clinicians to provide comprehensive, woman-centred approaches to maternity service planning. Its purpose is to help with the review, assessment and co-design of maternity services.
The Framework is intended to complement existing organisational and workforce-specific policies and guidelines such as:
- health service planning tools
- workforce planning tools
- Maternity Services Decision Making Framework (DMF)
- Growing Deadly Families Strategy.
The Framework should be read in conjunction with the Rural Maternity Taskforce Report (PDF 3235 kB) as it provides information on the factors that affect access to and safety of maternity services and an overview of the issues, concerns and expectations of stakeholders in rural and remote communities.
The Framework includes a suite of resources including a process to prioritise sites for review using the Framework (PDF 159 kB).
Planning framework appendix 4 - templates and examples
The Framework includes these templates and examples in Appendix 4 of the document:
- Gantt chart with proposed timeframes (XLSX 26 kB)
- Survey questions (DOCX 549 kB)
- Example – data and information summary graphic (PDF 1391 kB).
Steering committee
- Terms of reference - template (DOCX 560 kB)
- Phone script and letter content for inviting consumers onto steering committee (DOCX 551 kB)
Stakeholder forums
- Phone script and letter content for inviting consumers who have recently had a baby to attend stakeholder forums (DOCX 553 kB)
- Forum information sheet (for attendees) (DOCX 553 kB)