Elements and Performance Criteria
- Coordinate health information collection to aid health planning and health support delivery
- Health information requirements are identified to contribute to establishing and maintaining an accurate understanding of current and potential health threats
- Health elements are liaised with to establish arrangements for collecting and reporting information
- Information management systems and information from health elements are utilised to compile and analyse health data and information to identify significant trends or data and develop an understanding of current and emerging health threats
- Health estimates are produced and updated based on analysis of health information and direction from health specialists
- Health estimates are communicated to stakeholders to enable appropriate employment of health support capabilities
- Undertake casualty regulation in support of operations
- Casualty regulation strategies are determined and implemented to ensure efficient routing of casualties to appropriate treatment facilities
- Effectiveness of casualty regulation strategies is monitored and adapted to ensure strategies reflect environmental and operational situation needs
- Casualty evacuation is coordinated to support appropriate movement of casualties around area of operations
- Coordinate supply and support services to health facilities
- Arrangements for removing and disposing health related waste are coordinated
- Water resupply to health facilities is monitored to ensure water availability is consistent with health dependency being supported
- Laundry support to health facilities is coordinated to ensure linen and clothing availability is consistent with health dependency being supported
- Mortuary support to health facilities is coordinated to ensure remains storage is consistent with operational need and operational plan for handling and repatriating human remains
- Medical and dental supply arrangements are monitored to ensure perishable and/or disposable items are supplied consistent with health dependency being supported, and identified and forecasted usage rates
- Procurement, transportation and supply of whole blood is coordinated to ensure surgical elements have sufficient quantities of blood to meet current and potential health care
- Coordinate health administration
- Accurate records of organisational clinical workload and patient care statistics are maintained to provide a basis for analysis and service improvement
- Medical reports and returns are prepared and issued to provide an accurate picture of health status
- Advice is prepared and provided on health administration matters to health elements to ensure delivery of health care and handling of health administrative matters are in accordance with organisational policy and procedure
- Casualty notification and report updates are prepared and issued to notify and provide updates on casualty status to family or other interested parties
- Relevant agencies are liaised with to seek advice on casualty welfare and administration, and to ensure health support provided is in accordance with organisational policy and procedures
- Health support operations are monitored to ensure health support provided is in accordance with organisational policy and procedures