This research describes patterns of uptake of Indigenous-specific health assessments and associated follow-up items, and examine the barriers and enablers to delivery and billing of follow-up over the first 3 years of implementation of the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP).

Known as the ‘Sentinel Sites Evaluation’ (SSE), this evaluation was completed over the period 2010 - 2013. The evaluation addresses the complex challenges of re-orienting services and systems to provide high quality chronic illness care. The SSE has identified some notable achievements, but there is wide variation between local areas in effective implementation of the...

Commissioned by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, this evaluation considers the $805m Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP), a federal government initiative designed to improve the capacity of primary health care services to more effectively prevent and manage chronic disease among Indigenous populations.