Project Timeline
2023
NHMRC Grant Approval and Project Initiation
Bridge to Better Health was funded by NHMRC to work towards improving health outcomes for people with intellectual disability.
2024
Education Development and Recruitment
We worked with people with intellectual disability, their supports and experts in the field to develop and review education, resources and project plans. With this developed we started recruitment.
2025
12-month Intervention Period
In this period we will be giving general practices, and practice nurses education, specialised support and access to resources. We will also be collecting patient data once they have completed the 12 months.
2026
Data Collection and Analysis
We will collect QHealth, ABS and medical data from participatns who have completed the intervention. This will be from the time period of 1 year pre, during and 1 year post intervention. We will then compare to see if the intervention had any changes.
2027
Project Write-up and Dissemination
We will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the project’s impact, making necessary adjustments based on the data collected and feedback from participating GPs.