Bendigo Loddon Primary Care Partnership Strategic Plan 2009-2012

The development of our new Strategic Plan provided an opportunity for our Partnership to reflect on our achievements over the past nine years, challenges we now face and what our Partnership, collectively, wishes to achieve together over the next three years.

Our Partnership has chosen to focus our work on improving and reinforcing positive mental wellbeing within our communities, promoting positive lifestyles through targeted health promotion activies and in ensuring that the work we do is based on the principle of social inclusion which focuses on reducing inequities, and increasing opportunities for the least advantaged people living in our communities.

We have also chosen to continue working together to make improvements in the health and wellbeing of older people within our communities which was initiated in 2003 though the Ageing Framework. Our Strategic Plan also reflects a new commitment to work together on issues relating to the health and wellbeing of children and young people. We recognise that while the percentage of Aboriginal people living within our communities is low, we cannot ignore the serious and pervasive health inequalities faced by Aboriginal people – and we will work together to build better relationships with Aboriginal people and the organisations that represent them within our communities.

The Strategic Plan was endorsed by the BLPCP Executive Committee on 20 November 2009 and subsequently by the Department of Health.

Section One:    The Basis of Our Partnership Work
Section Two:     The Context of Our Partnership Work
Section Three: Our Goals and Objectives
Section Four:    Implementation Plans
                              - Capacity Building in Our Primary Care Partnership
                               - Aboriginal People
                              - Children and Young People
                              - Older People (55+)
Section Five:     Integrated Health Promotion Plan
                               - Mental Health and Wellbeing
                               - Sexual and Reproductive Health
                               - Promoting Physical Activity and Active Communities
                               - Reducing Tobacco Related Harm
Section Six:       Supporting Documentation