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Towards Better Outcomes
Southcity Clinic has the expertise and experience to address substance misuse and dependence issues and offer services aimed at achieving better outcomes for our patients and the community.

Therefore, over the next few years, the Clinic will build on its core business to offer:
Expanded services to the patient population.
Better resources for GPs and other healthcare providers to manage substance-dependent patients, and develop services for local business and industry.

To achieve better outcomes we will:
Identify gaps in current service delivery and develop services to complement and support existing activities in the Southern Metropolitan Region.
Work in partnership with other local agencies to address gaps in service delivery.

Clinically, we will:
Identify the unmet needs of complex, multi-diagnosis patients with a view to broadening the Clinic's services to this group.
Expand the clinical consulting role offered to other healthcare professionals.
Take an active role in expanding the number of GPs prescribing methadone and other alternative pharmacotherapies.
Update and broaden staff knowledge and skills to ensure current and emerging needs and treatment modalities are covered.

Educationally, we will:
Provide enhanced education and support to GPs and other healthcare professionals which complement and support our clinical work.
Expand the shared care and mentoring role of the Clinic.
Provide effective basic and advanced training options for a range of healthcare professionals.
Address attitudinal barriers amongst GPs, practice staff and other health professionals to working effectively with substance-dependent patients

Mission Statment
Optimum treatment in the southern metropolitan region of Melbourne for substance-dependent people with difficult and complex needs.
 
To provide effective training, consultancy and support services for health practitioners involved in providing treatment for substance-dependent patients.

We achieve our mission by:

• Treating substance-dependent people in our target group with medical, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic counselling interventions.
• Educating GPs and other healthcare providers in the management of substance-dependent people.