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Healthy Communities
Torres Health will continue to support and build the health and wellbeing of our communities by delivering quality holistic primary health care services in ways that promote the strength and capacity of Torres Strait Islander individuals and communities to achieve better health outcomes.
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Partnering for Success
Torres Health maintains strong, mutually beneficial collaborations and partnerships to continue to progress our vision for our communities.
We do this by:
- Co-designing our services with community to ensure they are accessible, culturally safe and appropriate, with a place-based focus
- Supporting people to understand and navigate the health system, including their rights as health consumers
- Implementing holistic primary health care services supported by strong clinical governance systems
- Leading and driving collaboration and mutually beneficial partnerships across community, government, research and corporate sectors
- Advocating and influencing at local, state, national and international levels for the improved health and wellbeing of our communities
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A Strong and Sustainable Organisation
Torres Health remains a strong, sustainable and innovative organisation that is working towards progressing our vision for our communities.
We do this by:
- Maintaining national accreditations and affiliation as the only existing Community Controlled Health Organisation for the Torres Strait
- Exploring and securing long-term government, philanthropic and corporate investment
- Investing in youth leadership to strengthen our organisation's and communities' sustainability for the future
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A Skilled, Capable, Confident Workforce
Torres Health continues to build and support the capabilities of our staff to deliver quality primary health care services to our communities.
We do this by:
- Growing and developing a competent, skilled and enabled health workforce
- Working with educational institutions and the broader health sector to develop career pathways in primary and allied health care
- Recruiting and retaining a skilled local health workforce
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Research, Innovation and Data Sovereignty
Torres Health embeds research, innovation, and data sovereignty principles across its services to inform policies, guidelines, and procedures that translate evidence into culturally safe and effective practice.
We do this by:
- Investigating sustainable opportunities to strengthen research capability, innovation, and data excellence across the Torres Strait
- Developing and implementing a Torres Health Research Framework aligned with the Torres Health Cultural Security Policy
- Promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data sovereignty to ensure data is governed, accessed, and used in ways that support community priorities, self-determination, and improved health outcomes
- Strengthening evidence-based decision-making through high-quality research, evaluation, and data governance systems
Strategic plan
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