The Healthier Great Green Way initiative, which is funded by Queensland Health is an exciting collaboration between the Innisfail Health Service District, the local Rural Division of General Practitioners and the local Aboriginal Medical Service. Together, the organisations provide primary health services aimed at decreasing the incidence of chronic disease.

The collaboration is implementing strategies in health promotion, prevention, symptom management, self-management and rehabilitation to reduce heart and lung disease, diabetes, renal disease and contributing risk factors such as smoking, nutrition, alcohol and lack of physical activity.

Health professionals work in multidisciplinary teams across organisations and often across workplaces to implement and support these locally driven strategies.