System level action required for wide-scale improvement in quality of primary health care

What are the common barriers, enablers and strategies to improving health outcomes in Indigenous chronic illness care and child health? Stakeholders interpreted aggregated quality improvement data on Indigenous chronic illness care and child health, enabling the research team to identify important ‘drivers’ and strategies for better health outcomes. These included effective staff recruitment and retention; staff capacity to deliver high quality care; effective use of clinical information systems and tools, use of quality improvement processes and data based decision-making; and a high level of community involvement in primary healthcare.