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Annual Report 2020 Five Years of Growth 2 WESTERN VICTORIA PRIMARY HEALTH NETWORK Annual Report 2020 Five years of growth 2 WESTERN VICTORIA PRIMARY HEALTH NETWORK Contents About this Report . 3 Who We Are . 4 Report from the Chair . 6 Report from the Chief Executive Officer . 7 Financial Summary . .. 8 Strategic Plan 2017-2020 . 10 COVID-19 Changing the way we work . 14 Our Board . 16 Our Executive . 17 Organisation Chart . 17 Clinical and Community Advisory Councils . 18 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 About this report The Western Victoria Primary Health Network (WVPHN) Annual Report 2020 provides an overview of our activities and performance from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. This report provides details on our services, how we have performed and information on the people who have worked with us and for us. This report was presented at the WVPHN Annual General Meeting on 29 October 2020. Theme of this report We welcome your feedback WVPHN has been operating for five Feedback is important to us and years – established 1 July 2015 . contributes to improving future reports for our readers . We welcome The design of this report depicts five your comments about this annual stylised growth lines, similar to growth report and ask you to forward them to rings in a tree . communications@westvicphn .com .au It also represents the organisation as The Annual Report 2020 is available being part of the health care landscape, online and can be downloaded: deeply integrated in the region and https://www westvicphn. .com .au/about- continuing to grow . us/publications/annual-reports 4 WESTERN VICTORIA PRIMARY HEALTH NETWORK Who We Are Western Victoria WVPHN is one of 31 Primary Health Networks (PHNs) across Australia and one of six in Victoria. We are a not-for-profit organisation, membership based, and a Primary Health Network company limited by guarantee . acknowledges the The WVPHN region covers an area of 79,234 .4 square kilometers (ABS 2011) with a traditional owners and total population of 617,931 persons (ABS 2016) residing across 21 local government custodians of the lands areas (LGAs) . We have a Clinical Advisory Council and a Community Advisory and waterways - the Council to provide the organisation with insights into key regional health care needs and give advice to the Board on key strategic priorities . Wadda Wurrung, Gulidjan, Our Board is skills-based and made up of four elected and five appointed Directors. Gadabanud, Keeray As of 30 June 2020 the organisation comprised 89 staff (75 EFT) working across four Wurrung, Gunditjmara, regional offices in Horsham, Ballarat, Geelong and Warrnambool. Djab Wurrung, Wotjobaluk, Dja Dja Wurrung, Jadawadjarli, Wergaia, Yarriambiack Jaadwa and Jupagalk peoples. Hindmarsh We recognise their diversity, resilience, and Northern the ongoing place that West Wimmera •Horsham Grampians Aboriginal and Torres Strait Horsham Central Islander people hold in Goldfields our communities. We pay Pyrenees Hepburn our respects to the Elders, Southern Ararat Ballarat Grampians • Ballarat both past and present Moorabool Glenelg and commit to working Golden Plains Greater Geelong together in the spirit of Moyne • Geelong Corangamite Queenscliffe mutual understanding, Warrnambool Surf Coast • respect and reconciliation. Warrnambool Colac-Otway We support self- determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and organisations and we will work with them in partnership on Closing the Gap. 5 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 Our key functions Organisation structure We work closely with GPs and other health care providers Western Victoria Primary Health Network Limited (the and services to build capacity to deliver high quality patient- Company) is a company limited by guarantee . The centred care and improve health outcomes . Corporations Act 2001 sets out our key legal obligations as a company . A variety of other legislation and regulations We use our knowledge and understanding of local health bind the Company in relation to workplace relations, care needs to: occupational health and safety, information management 1 . Support General Practice and financial governance. 2 . Commission or purchase locally-needed services WVPHN is a member of the Victorian Hospitals Industrial Association (VHIA) which provides ongoing advice about 3 . Integrate local services and systems workplace relations and has current accreditation with the Our stakeholders include: the people of our communities; the Quality Improvement Council’s Health and Community three tiers of government; community organisations such as Standards which incorporates quality standards relating to community health, aged care and disability services; general governance and management . The Company is governed practice; Aboriginal health services; allied health providers by a Board of Directors operating under a Constitution (June including pharmacies; aged care providers; universities; 2015), which can only be changed through agreement of research alliances; peak bodies; rural workforce agencies Members at a general meeting . and the many private and public rural and regional hospitals Registered Name: across the region . Western Victoria Primary Health Network Limited We share knowledge and work collectively to meet national, Registered Address: 131 Myers Street Geelong 3220 local and organisational indicators, measured by the Primary Health Network performance framework . ABN: 87 061 300 918 The key objectives set for Primary Health Networks by the ACN: 061 300 918 Commonwealth Government are: • To increase the efficiency and effectiveness of health Charitable Status services for patients, particularly those at risk of poor health outcomes WVPHN is registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission. • To improve coordination of care to ensure patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time . Locations All Primary Health Networks have seven key national health priority targets . These are: WVPHN offices are located in Geelong, Horsham, Ballarat and Warrnambool: 1 . Mental health • 131 Myers Street, Geelong 2 . Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health • 101 Drummond Street North, Ballarat 3 . Population health • 81 Hamilton Street, Horsham 4 . Health workforce • Bayside City Plaza, 24-36 Fairy Street, Warrnambool 5 . Digital health 6 . Aged care Membership 7 . Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment . WVPHN membership is available to individuals who are GPs, Practice Nurses, other primary health care practitioners working in private practice, and representatives of local health services . For further information go to: westvicphn . com .au/about-us/membership Western Victoria Primary Health Network commissioned this work by Aboriginal Artist Nathan Patterson. The painting depicts natural and spiritual elements of the land. It features Bunjil an indigenous ancestral being, depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle. It is believed that, in the Dreamtime, Bunjil took shelter in a cave located in the part of Gariwerd (Grampians National Park) that is now known as the Black Range Scenic Reserve. 6 WESTERN VICTORIA PRIMARY HEALTH NETWORK Report from the Chair WVPHN continued to demonstrate a Farewell to Dr Leanne Beagley stable and solid financial position on Earlier this year our highly-regarded the balance sheet, with cash reserves CEO Dr Leanne Beagley resigned of $5 .6 million and a current working her position with us to take on a capital ratio of 1 .18 (current assets/ national role as CEO of Mental Health current liabilities) for the financial year Australia . Leanne left us with a record (2018-19 was 1 .29), with total assets of of significant achievement over the past $31 million . three year . Her belief in the important A most unusual year purpose of the work of the PHN was unwavering and on behalf of the Board 2020 has been a year like no other . we thank Leanne for her professionalism This has not been a year of ‘business and hard work . as usual’ . It has, in fact, been a year On behalf of the Board of WVPHN where much of the usual work was Welcome to Rowena Clift I present this fifth annual report to delayed while our communities and The Board was delighted to appoint our funding bodies, the primary those across the world isolated against Rowena Clift as our new CEO, taking up health care providers of western an unseen enemy . the position in June . Victoria, our members, staff and other Staff across WVPHN offices have, since interested stakeholders . Rowena previously worked in a variety March this year, essentially worked from of executive roles in the health sector, Summary of financial report home, with the only staff coming into including Acting CEO at Ballan and The financial result for 2019-20 was office locations being those responsible District Health Care, as the Director a surplus of $118,000, due to the for the distribution of personal protective of Service and System Integration at completion of a number of state-based equipment (PPE) to health care providers . WVPHN, and Executive leadership roles programs . This result was achieved This new way of working has its at Ballarat Health Services and the Royal despite a number of the additional difficulties but thanks to technology, Children’s Hospital . challenges in the last quarter of the staff were still in touch communicating The Board also extends thanks to Acting year with COVID-19 and its impact on and continuing their tasks . Over these CEO Tony Ficca for his leadership during the organisation . months the Board has been kept up to the interim period . The 2019-20 financial year was the date on how these new arrangements
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