Primary Care Impact: Improve Preparation of Emergency Equipment
All general practices need to ensure comprehensive emergency protocols, equipment and medicines are in place to achieve best practice and manage adverse events following immunisation. Thanks to a suggestion from Dr John Moran at King Street Medical Centre, Primary Care Impact has introduced a new QI activity to assist general practices to prepare and audit their emergency equipment, including the must-have contents
Primary Care Impact: Socially Distanced Vaccination in General Practice
As general practices are faced with the concurrent rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine and influenza vaccine, clinic procedures still need to adhere to social distancing and infection control guidelines. The Primary Care Impact topic for socially distanced vaccination in general practice has been relaunched. This time, it includes a shared PDSA from Dr Lerm’s Surgery. Check it out to see how their planning and team approach resulted
Tweed Banora Medical Centre Don’t Miss a Beat When It Comes to Heart Health
Staff and clinicians at Tweed Banora Medical Centre had a lot of fun with their Healthy Heart Awareness campaign during the month of February. They decorated their practice as well as dressed in red to raise awareness of the importance of having a healthy heart check. To complete this quality improvement activity, the practice: Provided
Improve FOBT Screening in Your Practice
Primary Care Impact has a new quality improvement activity to help improve FOBT screening of people aged 50-74 in your practice. This QI activity was prompted by Maria Clinic in Casino. Practice Manager Gene Allder-Conn was concerned that not all patients in the target age group were being offered screening. Of those who were, less
Primary Care Impact: Launch of Aboriginal Health QI Activity
Healthy North Coast is excited to present our first Aboriginal Health Primary Care Impact quality improvement activity. Recent studies have found that only a minority of GPs routinely collect and record the Indigenous identity of patients. Rather than making assumptions, it is vital the question is asked of all patients to shape client care, planning,
Primary Care Impact: Improve Recording and Updating of Immunisation Data
In preparation for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and mandatory reporting to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR), Primary Care Impact has introduced a new QI activity specifically designed to walk you through the steps to ensure correct and accurate immunisation reporting. In light of the recent changes in how to access the AIR, this QI activity also
A New Year, A New Start for Clinical Societies
In 2021, local clinical connections are going to be more important than ever. Healthy North Coast is kicking off the year with the re-launch of our Clinical Societies — a chance for you to network with colleagues across all primary care disciplines, to decide what local CPD training you want to access over the next
Increasing Preparedness for Emergency in General Practice
The bushfire danger period has commenced on the North Coast. This is a good time for general practice staff to access custom-designed trauma-related training for general practice and use quality improvement to increase practice preparedness for emergency. The Department of Health has engaged Phoenix Australia to deliver trauma-related training programs to frontline workers, including general
Onsite Accreditation Assessments to Resume From 26 October
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has released information on the resumption of assessments under the National General Practice Accreditation (NGPA) Scheme. Onsite assessments to the RACGP Standards for general practices will resume from 26 October 2020. The reintroduction of onsite assessments will take into consideration the lead time for planning
Did You Know You Can Effectively Address Smoking Cessation in Just a Couple of Minutes?
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has published a new guide, Supporting Smoking Cessation, recommending an evidence-based brief intervention for GPs. The guide addresses common misperceptions that smoking cessation ‘counselling’ takes too long and is unwelcome. See table 1.1 on page 16 of the guide for some revealing evidence about smoking cessation. Primary Care
‘Improve Recording of Alcohol Status’ Proves Popular With Practices
Improving recording of alcohol status is currently the most popular quality improvement activity in Primary Care Impact, after COVID-19 patient and staff safety. One general practice has (anonymously) shared how they used Topbar and a team approach to increase their recording of alcohol status by 10% in six months. Well done to this (shy) team
eReferral Quality Improvement Activity Now Available for General Practice
Your practice can make the move to eReferrals as a quality improvement activity. Visit Primary Care Impact to learn about increasing the use of eReferrals to NNSWLHD Lismore Pain and Speciality Outpatient Clinics. This page contains information that can help you to “axe the fax” and increase awareness of NNSWLHD services accepting eReferral at your
