Join Gippsland PHN and Prestantia Health in this 3 part learning series to develop knowledge, support and optimising Person-centred and Multidisciplinary Team-based Care.
These education sessions are part of a structured program of three interactive online workshops designed to support general practices at varying stages of their multidisciplinary team (MDT) development journey. The program is tailored to meet practices where they are in terms of understanding, MDT maturity, and readiness for change, with content progressively informed by participant feedback gathered through targeted surveys between sessions.
These workshops will engage GPs, practice managers, nurses, and administrative staff, focusing on enhancing person-centred care and increasing service effectiveness and efficiencies of multidisciplinary team-based care
Workshop 3 – “The What“ Making Change Happen – Transforming Your MDT Care into Practice Through Quality Improvement
Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 12:30-2:00pm – Register Here
Participants will explore how to drive changes required to transform MDT care in a structured way by applying QI methodology. Emphasis will be placed on “making it happen,” equipping teams with the tools, confidence, and clear next steps to implement meaningful and sustainable change.
Agenda:
- Update on progress and reflections since Workshop 2
- Review and discussion of survey results
- Identifying and prioritising change activities
- Strengthening team effectiveness through continuous improvement
- Making it happen, action planning and next steps
- Reflection and discussion
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify and prioritise key change activities to strengthen MDT care within their practice.
- Describe how Quality Improvement (QI) methodologies can support MDT implementation, improvement, and sustainability.
- Apply structured QI approaches (e.g. small tests of change) to improve team-based care.
- Develop a practical action plan to embed MDT care into routine practice.
- Demonstrate increased confidence in leading and sustaining MDT-related change initiatives.
Workshop 1 – “The Why” Teams Matter – Foundations of Higher Performing MDT Care
Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 12:30-2:00pm – Register Here
Please follow link for more workshop 1 information
Workshop 2 – “The How” Making Teams Work – Building Trust and Effectiveness in MDT Care
Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 12:30-2:00pm – Register Here
Please follow link for more workshop 2 information
Presenter: Paresh Dawda
Paresh is a General Medical Practitioner with a portfolio of roles spanning clinical, leadership, academic and consultancy domains. As a clinician, he leads organisations and provides services for people with complex and chronic conditions across the ACT including those with disabilities, aged care and palliative care. Next Practice Deakin received a national Medicare Champion Award in recognition of exceptional primary care, improving patient outcomes, and driving innovative practices through the adoption of an Integrated Practice Unit approach to multi-disciplinary team-based care.
He provides specialist primary care advice to the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and formerly NSW eHealth on broad issues with a primary care lens. As an academic, he has Professorial level affiliations with the Business School of UNSW and the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra. He has authored multiple influential papers and was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of BMJ’s Integrated Healthcare Journal.
As a SME and consultant, he has advised Commonwealth Government, State Governments, Professional and Peak organisations, PHNs and service providers in Australia and designed and delivered capability building programs nationally
and internationally on higher-performing primary healthcare, service improvement and system integration. The golden thread that weaves through his diverse interests is a passion for human-centred care.
