2023

Improving thinking skills in young people in custody with mental health conditions using social cognitive and neurocognitive remediation therapy: A feasibility pilot study Rene Jones1 1USYD and Justice Health Forensic Mental Health Network, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW, Australia Abstract Background:...

MACH-Track; a curated pathway for allied health clinician scientists David Berlowitz1, 2, 3 , Sue Berney1, 2, 3 , Linda Denehy1, 4 1The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Melbourne,...

Finding the Right Job for the Person: Healthcare workforce recruitment concierge, a person-centred response to the growing supply crisis Kirsten Sue See1,2, Kerry Anderson Kay2, Erin Gothard1 1Queensland Health, Metro North Community And Oral Health, 2Health Excellence and Innovation Metro...

Designing a best practice model of care for rehabilitation of patients with a prolonged disorder of consciousness (PDOC). Kirsten Sue See1,2, Kerry Anderson Kay2, Erin Gothard1 1Queensland Health, Metro North Community And Oral Health, 2Health Excellence and Innovation Metro North...

Unlocking the Allied Health (AH) Graduate Pipeline Andrew Davison, Tanya Hammond, Jaye Matheson Abstract Background: The AH Workforce Graduate Pipeline Project aimed to improve the AH graduate pipeline into NSW Health. Drivers of the program included; NSW Health Workforce Plan...

Hospital Social Work during COVID-19: Assessment and management of psychosocial risk during the pandemic James Ready1, Greg Lewis11Social Work Department, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Abstract Psychosocial assessments are a fundamental part of the hospital social work...

Building Resilience: Evaluation of a Brief Mindfulness Program for Heart Transplant Recipients Michelle Byard1 1Qld Health – The Prince Charles Hospital, CHERMSIDE 4032 QLD, QLD, Australia Abstract Patients may have successful heart transplant outcomes, but physical and psychological challenges often...

How can we support new staff? A buddy system pilot in Rehabilitation in the Home Jocelyn White1 1South Metropolitan Health Service, Perth, WA, Australia Abstract Background: Rehabilitation in the Home is a metropolitan wide, short term rehabilitation service that provides...

Inaugural Prospective Surveillance Model pilot in a Tertiary Hospital in WA. Angela Barnett-moorcroft1 1Sir Charles Gairdener Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia Abstract Background: Breast Cancer is the most common cancer suffered by Australian women, with increasing survivorship. Outcomes and morbidity associations...

Expanding the role of Allied Health: Screening for unmet social needs in paediatric speech-language pathology. Laura Doig1, Lauren Hamill2, Anna Kearns2, Meghan Hesse2, Daina Frederick2, Alison Purcell2,3, Sue Woolfenden4,5,6 1Charles Sturt University, Albury, New South Wales, Australia2Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney,...