Our Testimonials
North East Primary Care Partnership, Victoria
In June 2010, a group of agencies in the NW Metro Region created a partnership to address the risk of problem gambling among international students. Our first task was to do some investigation and planning to develop an idea of how we were going to address this issue. With six partner agencies and workers with differing levels of experience and understanding of health promotion practice, a major challenge was how to advance our planning and "speak” to each other outside of our meeting times. A number of us were independently using QIPPS for intra-agency projects . We thought this might be useful for our partnership. QIPPS staff assisted us by setting up a project account that we could all log into. This has been fantastic. Now, in between meeting times, all partners are able to log onto the site, read what others have done and add strategies and tasks for discussion. We are also able to indicate when activities have been completed. This has greatly assisted us to plan more rigorously and think about evaluation as we go. As a result of using QIPPS all partners are more confident in the project and the role they are playing. Our initial positive experience has encouraged us to use this approach in the future and we have asked for a second project to be placed in the same shared account so that we can expand our partnership work again.Department of Health and Families, Northern Territory
The Department of Health and Families (DHF) uses QIPPS as the primary tool in assisting Primary Health Care and Public Health Staff to plan and evaluate their health promotion programs. QIPPS is referred to in the DHF Corporate Plan 2009 -2012 under Priority Action Area One: ‘Promote good health and prevent and manage chronic disease’.QIPPS assists staff to design a comprehensive health promotion plan and evaluation. The advantages of using QIPPS for the DHF are:
• providing staff with a common language
• assisting corporate knowledge management
• providing a consistent framework whilst allowing flexibility
• contributing to health promotion best practice in the NT
• supporting combined planning across sectors and programs
• enabling planning with staff across large distances, due to be being web-based
• ease of incorporation into a continuous quality improvement culture within health promotion.