Table 1
Demonstrated examples of workforce diversity across CHQ’s ECHO Networks as of September 2022.
| # | ECHO NETWORK AND NETWORK MISSION STATEMENT | YEAR OF LAUNCH AND STATUS | TARGET AUDIENCE: SECTOR DIVERSITY | TARGET AUDIENCE: PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE DIVERSITY | CUMULATIVE NUMBER OF UNIQUE SPOKE PARTICIPANTS; CASE PRESENTATIONS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) To support GPs to manage children with ADHD in collaboration with hospital teams and other primary care providers. | 2017 – 2019 | Primary health, secondary health, education | GPs, psychologists, guidance officers | 90; 81 |
| 2 | Paediatric Overweight and Obesity To prevent and manage childhood obesity in primary care with specialist support. | 2018 – 2019 (transitioned to partner ECHO hub for continuity) | Primary health, secondary health | GPs, dietitians | 110; 41 |
| 3 | Clubfoot and other Foot Anomalies To build capabilities of physiotherapists and orthopaedic nurses managing clubfoot and other congenital foot anomalies that can be effectively managed outside tertiary centres. | 2018 – 2020 | Secondary health, tertiary health | Physiotherapists, orthopaedic nurses | 85; 53 |
| 4 | Early Years Development Program To train and mentor early childhood educators in administering universal child developmental screening and parental support. | 2018 | Primary health, early childhood education | Early childhood educators | 15; 5 |
| 5 | Refugee Kids To provide a forum for educators to access professional guidance and support to respond to the complex needs of refugee families impacted by trauma. | 2018 – 2019 | Education, refugee health, non-government, secondary health | Principals, teachers, guidance officers, refugee advocates, school nurses | 101; 32 |
| 6 | Kids & Teens Mental Health and Behaviour To empower GPs and other professionals from health and education to manage behaviour and mental health within the context of the family and community environments. | 2018 – 2020 | Primary health, secondary health, education | Medical, nursing, allied health, guidance officers | 186; 69 |
| 7 | Children, Adolescents and Young Adults with Complex Pain To enable the delivery of developmentally sensitive, personalised care for every child, adolescent, and young adult with chronic pain. | 2018 – present | Primary health, secondary health, tertiary health, education, disability, non-government | Medical, nursing, allied health | 187; 35 |
| 8 | Supporting Teams Caring for Type 1 Diabetes To improve and advocate for high quality and consistency in care for people living with T1D. | 2019, 2021 – present | Secondary health, tertiary health, education | Medical, nursing, allied health, school-based youth health nurses | 90; 17 |
| 9 | Paediatric Palliative Care To improve the integration of high-quality care of children/young people with life-limiting conditions and their families. To grow an interprofessional community or practice, using a supportive environment, that enables us to gain and share knowledge and connect. | 2020 – present | Primary health, secondary health, tertiary health, education, human services, disability, non-government (hospice), education | Medical including GPs, nursing, allied health, education professionals | 119; 17 |
| 10 | Autism Connect To assist educational professionals to support students with autism in Queensland schools, in response to the growing need for autism specific professional learning across the state. | 2020 | Education | Principals, teachers, guidance officers | 25; 6 |
| 11 | Supporting Kids and Families during and beyond COVID-19 To provide a platform for health and education professionals to share information to support staff resiliency and student return to school. | 2020 | Education, primary health, secondary health, child safety, non-government | Guidance officers, teachers, school nurses, allied health | 144; 11 |
| 12 | Integrated Models of Care to support psychosocial needs during and beyond COVID-19 To support the provision of healthcare to meet psychosocial needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. | 2020 – 2021 | Primary health, secondary health, tertiary health, education | Social workers and other allied health professionals, medical, nursing | 106; 4 |
| 13 | Adolescent Health and Wellbeing To support effective ways of working with adolescents and young adults to help build their capacity and build connections between professions and sectors to enable coordinated and collaborative care. | 2020 – present | Primary health, secondary health, tertiary health, education, child safety, non-government | Nurses including school-based nurses and nurse navigators, guidance officers and other education professionals, GPs, allied health, hospital medical teams, child safety professionals, youth workers | 204; 23 |
| 14 | Good Grief This Hurts To build awareness around what to do when a child has experienced the death of a significant person in their life. | 2020 | Secondary health, tertiary health, hospices, education | Anyone in the community who is caring for a child who has been impacted by death family members and friends, teachers, guidance counsellors, health care providers, private counsellors/psychologists, and community-based youth-focused organisations | 253; 0 |
| 15 | Navigating Paediatric Disability To grow a statewide, interprofessional and cross sector community of practice. To connect and learn about cross sector, multi-agency services and supports available to better integrate care for children/young people who live with a disability. | 2020 – present | Primary health, secondary health, education, disability, child safety, non-government | Medical, nursing, allied health, child safety, disability, and education professionals. | 183; 23 |
| 16 | Child Protection: Responding to Vulnerable Children and Families To build a village of professionals from health, child safety, education and our other partners to problem solve, share our successes and challenges in our work together responding to children who have been abused and/or neglected. | 2021 – present | Child safety, education, primary health, secondary health, tertiary health | Child safety officers and other child safety practitioners, child protection liaison officers, paediatricians, nursing, allied health, education professionals | 185; 12 |
| 17 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Kids Health and Wellbeing To connect teams who care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids to improve health and wellbeing. | 2021 – present | Aboriginal community controlled, primary health, secondary health, tertiary health, education, child safety | Medical, nursing, allied health practitioners, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community-Controlled Health Services and mainstream services | 119; 6 |
| 18 | Paediatric Gender Health Care To improve the knowledge and confidence of medical and mental health clinicians, education professionals and others to provide informed and respectful care to trans, gender diverse and non-binary youth. | 2021 – present | Primary health, secondary health, education | GPs, mental health professionals in health and education, child safety professionals | 75; 10 |
| 19 | Paediatric Eating Disorders To improve access to support and develop a network around clinicians caring for children and young people living with eating disorders. | 2021 – present | Primary health, education | GPs, practice nurses, psychologists, school-based youth health nurses. | 141; 3 |
| 20 | Paediatric Feeding To improve the knowledge and confidence of professionals working in paediatric feeding across Queensland. | 2021 – present | Secondary health, tertiary health | Speech pathologists, occupational therapists, psychologists, and dietitians | 54; 16 |
| 21 | Replication and Beyond To support and develop knowledge sharing, capability and confidence of facilitators, panellists, and coordinators implementing the ECHO model within the Australian context. | 2019 – present | Primary health, secondary health, university, non-government, philanthropic, health promotion and prevention | Medical, nursing, allied health, project managers, administrators | 85; 33 |
| 22 | Health Research Education To support knowledge sharing and advice to help grow and develop research and evaluation capacity. | 2022 – present | Secondary health, tertiary health, university, philanthropic | Medical, nursing, allied health, researchers/academics, and administrators | 18; 3 |
Figure 1
Geographic distribution of spoke participants joining CHQ ECHO Networks 2017- September 2022 (n = 2574).
Table 2
Organisations trained by CHQ’s ECHO Superhub.
| # | ORGANISATION | LOCATION | YEAR TRAINED | FOCUS AREA/S | YEAR LAUNCHED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apunipima Cape York Health Council | Queensland | 2019 | Rheumatic Heart Disease, Maternal Child Health | 2021 |
| 2 | Health Consumers Queensland | Queensland | 2019 | Health Consumer training and support | 2020 |
| 3 | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners | Victoria | 2019 | Alcohol and Other Drugs | 2020 |
| 4 | Western Victoria Primary Health Network | Victoria | 2019 | Persistent Pain, Mental Health, COVID-19, Domestic and Family Violence, Movement Disorders | 2020 |
| 5 | Health and Wellbeing Queensland | Queensland | 2020 | Childhood Overweight and Obesity, Healthier Remote Food Stores, Tuckshop Menu Planning | 2020 |
| 6 | Townsville Hospital and Health Service | Queensland | 2020 | Persistent Pain | 2020 |
| 7 | The University of Melbourne | Victoria | 2020 | Optimising Chronic Disease Outcomes in Primary Care, Adolescent Mental Health, COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out | 2020 |
| 8 | Thorne Harbour Health | Victoria | 2020 | Transgender Health | 2020 |
| 9 | Sydney North Health Network | New South Wales | 2020 | Pain Management, Palliative Care | 2020 |
| 10 | West Moreton Hospital and Health Service | Queensland | 2020 | Residential Aged Care, Specialist Mental Health and Intellectual Disability | 2021 |
| 11 | Darling Downs West Moreton Primary Health Network | Queensland | 2020 | Older Persons Health | 2021 |
| 12 | Clinical Excellence Queensland | Queensland | 2020 | Offender Health and Wellbeing | 2020 |
| 13 | Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network | New South Wales | 2021 | Comorbidity Support in Primary Care | 2021 |
| 14 | South Australian Postgraduate Medical Education Association | South Australia | 2021 | Alcohol and Other Drugs, Cardiology, Neurology, Chronic Pain, Gastroenterology | 2021 |
| 15 | Dokotela | New South Wales | 2021 | Psychiatry | ETA 2022 |
| 16 | Western Australia Primary Health Alliance | Western Australia | 2021 | Alcohol and Other Drugs | 2022 |
| 17 | University of New South Wales | New South Wales | 2021 | Rare Diseases in Childhood, Ophthalmology | 2022 |
| 18 | Australasian Palliative Link International | Victoria | 2021 | Palliative Care | 2022 |
| 19 | Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service | Queensland | 2021 | Frail Elderly | ETA 2022 |
| 20 | Northern Territory Primary Health Network | Northern Territory | 2022 | Disability | 2022 |
| 21 | Australian Centre for Prevention of Cervical Cancer | Victoria | 2022 | Cervical Cancer | 2022 |
| 22 | Metro South Hospital and Health Service | Queensland | 2022 | Frail Elderly, Residential Aged Care Facilities | 2022 |
| 23 | St Vincent’s Health Services | Victoria | 2022 | Adolescent Addiction | ETA 2023 |
| 24 | GP Partners Australia | South Australia | 2022 | Palliative Care, Maternity | ETA 2023 |