What is Clinician Assist WA?

Overview

Clinician Assist WA is a federally-funded secure online clinical decision support tool aimed primarily at GPs, but also available to other health professionals operating, or providing services to patients, in WA. Delivered by WA Primary Health Alliance, in collaboration with WA Health and local specialists, the website provides clear, locally agreed upon assessment, management and referral advice on key patient presentations.

Unlike traditional guidelines, clinical, non-clinical and referral pathways are succinct and intended to be used during a consultation. The extensive, evidence-based library on Clinician Assist WA includes more than 600 clinical and non-clinical topics, with corresponding referral pathways that have been adapted to the WA context.

Our aim is to improve health equity by ensuring health professionals have access to up-to-date clinical and referral information to support all Western Australians.

Benefits for health professionals

• Access to WA-specific clinical and referral guidance and patient and clinician resources, in one place, at no cost.
• Information is structured to be succinct and easy to use at the point of care.
• Easily identifiable population specific content.
• Assistance with navigating patients through the complex primary, community and tertiary health care systems.
• Access to Referral Access Criteria (RAC), linked on applicable referral pages.

Developing and reviewing pathways

Clinical pathways are developed, regularly reviewed and maintained by a team of local GP Clinical Editors, in consultation with local specialists and subject matter experts.

Referral pathways are developed and maintained in collaboration with community and hospital service providers to support referrers in making high quality, timely referrals to the right services for their patients. We have established relationships with WA Health to support this process.

The multi-step process of developing and reviewing clinical pathways can be complex, often involving consultation with numerous stakeholders. The result is a suite of comprehensive, clinically accurate and robustly governed clinical pathways, which are structured considering their GP primary audience, no matter where they are located in WA.

See Clinician Assist WA Clinical Governance for more information.

Need more information?

See How to Use Clinician Assist WA.