Healthcare needs are increasingly complex, requiring integrated, person-centred approaches that go beyond single professions, settings or episodes of care. AHPs play a critical role in bridging these gaps by working collaboratively across disciplines and across the wider social and health ecosystem.

This symposium brings together three NHG Health’s Allied Health initiatives aligned with the theme “Stronger Together: One Allied Health for Integrated Care”. The presentations showcase how AHPs, working collectively and enabling coordinated care for patients with complex needs.

The first presentation, Lighter Life, is an interdisciplinary primary care weight management programme for patients with chronic disease. It highlights close collaboration between AHPs and doctors from programme co-creation through to delivery.

The second presentation focuses on Joined-Up Care (JUC), a social work-led initiative across NHG Health. MSW teams and community partners collaborate to enable early identification and timely psychosocial interventions for vulnerable older adults.

The third presentation on mental health explores how primary care mental health teams partner community and tertiary services to strengthen mental health pathways across all levels of care.
Together, these presentations offer practical insights into how Allied Health, when aligned and integrated, can strengthen care delivery and improve outcomes across the continuum of care.