Priorities

• Work with healthcare providers to identify unwarranted clinical variation and develop strategies to address challenges in care provision.
• Work with healthcare providers in implementing solutions for Leading Better Value Care and investigating clinical variation in the treatment of chronic heart failure.
• Work with the Aboriginal Chronic Care Networks and the NSW Ministry to ensure better cardiac care for Aboriginal people.
• To develop a cardiac monitoring guidelines and a cardiac rehabilitation minimum data set.
• To support the ACI Health Economics and Evaluation Team and NSW Ambulance with the State Cardiac Reperfusion Strategy Evaluation.
• To support clinicians in the implementation and management of drug eluting stents
• To revise chest pain pathway and develop and implement the Pathway and checklist for Acute Coronary Syndrome Assessment (PACSA) in conjunction with the Emergency Care Institute (ECI).

Achievements

• Development of evidence-based guidelines on cardiac monitoring.
• Revision of the Clinical Service Framework for Chronic Heart Failure.