What is HealthPathways?

HealthPathways Illawarra Shoalhaven (HPWIS)

  • an initiative for the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) and COORDINARE – South Eastern NSW PHN
  • a free web-based portal to support general practitioners and other health professionals in assessing, managing and referring patients.

Click on the HealthPathways Illawarra Shoalhaven Program Overview for more details

View this short YouTube video for a GP's take on HealthPathways although far less pathways were localised at that time. 

To access the HPWIS site click here or on the 'Login to HealthPathways' icon to the right  >

                     

Latest news

JANUARY 2024

This is the latest list of COVID-19 clinical HealthPathways:

SITE USAGE
Site usage continues to rise. In comparing the 2023 calendar year with the previous one the session usage has increased 10% and page views 9%.   

To track the usage for each quarter click on the USAGE DATA, also located in the top menu bar.   

The site has been live since 21 Sept 2015.

PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT
644 pathways are now published. Click on localised pathways to access.
To track pathways under development click on PATHWAY PROGRESS in the top menu bar.  

EVALUATION OF HEALTHPATHWAYS RESPONSE TO THE BUSHFIRE & INITIAL COVID-19 PANDEMIC 
Joint evaluation by ACT & Southern NSW and Illawarra Shoalhaven regions.

EVALUATION OF LOCAL LUNG CANCER HEALTHPATHWAYS
Quantifying Care against the Optimal Care Pathway for People with Lung Cancer, 28 June 2021 Final Report 

SHORT TERM EVALUATION REPORT
This is our HPWIS Short Term Evaluation Report for the period 2015 - 2017.

HEALTHPATHWAYS COMMUNITY EVALUATION PUBLICATIONS
This is the link to the publication database for the whole HealthPathways Community.

The latest publications are:

These are Australian Health Review publications of note for the Australian HealthPathways Community:
1. 4-year journey of Hunter and New England HealthPathways, published Feb 2017 
2. HealthPathways improving access to care in Barwon, Victoria, published Feb 2018
3. Implementing Healthpathways across Queensland, a case study, published in May 2019.

GP CLINICAL EDITORS
Drs Jan Hogbin and Soli Duveaux joined our team in 2017 whilst Dr Rebecca Goodman came on board in 2020. To view the team and other key contributors click here or on the TEAM in the top menu bar.

Go To HealthPathways

Looking for clinical pathways and referral information:

Partnership Approach

The HPWIS Team appreciates and thanks the District Clinical Divisions and Departments for their advice. ISLHD Clinical Stream Directors and other specialists are providing oversight on clinical pathways.

Our GP Clinical Editors spend time with these clinicians to ensure pathways are localised expediently and with the latest medical assessment and management information. ISLHD Clinical Nursing and Allied Health professionals are also providing tremendous support to ensure the advice and request/referral pages and support information reflect current service provisions.

The COORDINARE and ISLHD partnership is ensuring GPs, specialists and other health professionals are working together with patients at the centre of the discussions and developments.