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  Focus 1: Accessible Health Care
  Focus 2: Collaboration and Community Participation
  Focus 3: Workforce Capability
  Focus 4: Continuous Learning
  Focus 5: Leadership and Direction
  Focus 6: Information Management
  Focus 7: High Quality Clinical Care
  Focus 8: Health Care in the Community
  Focus 9: Population Health
  Focus 10: Financial Sustainability

Focus 1: Accessible Health Care
We will focus on access so that our patients and consumers have better access to health services.

Focus 2: Collaboration and Community Participation
We will focus on collaboration and community participation so that we: -

• Strengthen community engagement;
• Forge and embrace partnerships with other service providers; and
• Improve the Area Health Service / General Practitioner interface across SWS.

Focus 3: Workforce Capability
We will focus on strengthening our workforce capability so that we: -

• Implement an effective Area Human Resource Strategy;
• Become an employer of choice; and
• Develop a skilled workforce and create a workplace culture where staff are valued.

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Focus 4: Continuous Learning
We will focus on continuous learning so that we encourage growth through excellence in research, teaching and innovation.

Focus 5: Leadership and Direction
We will focus on leadership and direction so that we: -

• Share a unified corporate direction;
• Raise the profile of SWSAHS; and
• Actively embrace and enact our corporate values.

Focus 6: Information Management
We will focus on information management so that we: -

• Establish effective and efficient information management systems; and
• Utilise information technology to enhance decision-making, planning and health service delivery.

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Focus 7: High Quality Clinical Care
We will focus on high quality clinical care so that we: -

• Deliver safe, reliable, appropriate and effective care to our patients and consumers;
• Provide integrated and networked acute care across SWSAHS; and
• Minimise clinical risk effectively.

Focus 8: Health Care in the Community
We will focus on strengthening health care in the community so that we: -

• Provide an integrated, high quality primary health care system across SWSAHS;
• Improve the coordination of care between primary health care providers; and
• Deliver integrated, safe and high quality ambulatory care to patients and consumers.

Focus 9: Population Health
We will focus on providing sustainable evidence-based population health services so that we: -

• Address the needs of population groups most at risk of poor health;
• Address the health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by enabling self-determination and working in partnership; and
• Develop a population health framework to complement the Area Clinical Services Strategy.

Focus 10: Financial Sustainability
We will focus on financial sustainability so that we: -

• Gain funding equity;
• Allocate our resources fairly;
• Manage our workload within budget;
• Generate revenue; and
• Participate in Statewide Corporate Services Reform.

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