The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network (BHFLHN) is committed to improving access, inclusion and participation for people living with disability.
Our Disability Access and Inclusion Plan (DAIP) aligns with the State Disability Inclusion Plan and sets out the actions we will take over the next four years to make our services more accessible, inclusive and responsive to community needs.
The DAIP includes Appendix A: the BHFLHN Autism Strategy Action Plan, bringing all of our disability-related commitments together in one place. This approach ensures:
The Autism Strategy Action Plan outlines targeted actions to strengthen the accessibility, inclusiveness and responsiveness of our services for Autistic people, their families and carers, working in partnership with the broader DAIP.
The BHFLHN Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) May 2024 – December 2025 (PDF 14MB) signifies our commitment to be deliberate and intentional in our efforts to foster positive change and strengthen the bonds of reconciliation between our local health network and First Nations peoples, and is an important step in realising our organisation’s strategic purpose of “delivering excellent healthcare that improves the health and wellbeing of our communities”.
BHFLHN recognises reconciliation as fundamental to the health and wellbeing of First Nations people, particularly in relation to dismantling the barriers to service access and ensuring that First Nations people feel safe, respected and welcome when visiting our healthcare facilities.
Following our Strategic Intent 2020-2021, the BHFLHN Strategic Plan 2021 – 2025 (PDF 1MB) will guide our planning over the coming four years, leading us to realise our vision of being acclaimed as a leading local health network, demonstrating courage in being innovative and creative as we continue to strive for excellence.
The Strategic Plan has been developed after an extensive engagement process involving our community, staff, clinicians, and a range of other stakeholders and partner organisations.
We engaged in this way not because we had to, but because we wanted to. We wanted to hear about what is most important about the health care and services that we provide, and to understand what our communities want for the future of our local health network.
It is our aspiration that this Plan provides the foundation for us to build on our strengths and see that our organisational values of trust, respect, integrity, collaboration and kindness are central to our planning, decision-making and culture.
The journey of the BHFLHN Consumer and Community Engagement Strategy 2022 – 2025 (PDF 8MB) has been, and will continue to be, one of listening, learning and discovery to ensure that we walk together to enhance the health and wellbeing outcomes for those that live in our communities. BHFLHN is committed to supporting and enhancing a culture where consumer and community engagement is at the heart of everything we do.
This strategy speaks to people from all backgrounds but particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and it replaces the former Country Health SA Aboriginal Community and Consumer Engagement Strategy. As such, Yarning Circles played a key role its development of this Strategy, which also resulted in a beautiful piece of artwork, entitled Ngallugu Wambaba Yunggu which is Narungga language for “walk as one and share our experiences”.
The BHFLHN Aboriginal Health Strategy 2026-2032 Refresh provides our clinical and cultural roadmap to achieve true health equity for First Nations people living across our regions. Originally established as a 10-year framework, this mid-cycle update refocuses our strategic intent directly onto operational accountability, measurable health outcomes, and structural changes.
Guided by the overarching principles of self-determination, holistic wellbeing, and cultural safety as clinical safety, the refreshed strategy organises our actions into four interconnected pillars: Healthier Communities, Aboriginal Workforce and Allyship, Improve Health Access and Service Delivery, and Partnerships.
Grounded in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, this living strategy ensures our services are driven by community voices and strict clinical accountability to best support the Kaurna, Ngadjuri, Peramangk, and Ngarrindjeri / Ramindjeri Nations.