Primary Care Impact: Influenza Immunisation to High Risk Group PDSAs
In our previous update, we shared news about the regionwide increase in influenza immunisations to at-risk groups (up by 11% to over 65s and people with diabetes and up 10% to people with COPD). This week, Central Pottsville Medical Centre has shared their PDSAs for increasing influenza immunisations to vulnerable groups. Using systematic PenCS data
RACGP Advice on Keeping Your Practice COVID Safe
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, practices have implemented a range of infection prevention and control measures in order to maintain the safety of staff and patients. As Australia moves through various stages of the pandemic, everyone must remain vigilant. This RACGP COVID-safe checklist is designed to support practices to maintain a healthy work
Latest News for Electronic Prescribing Rollout
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has been working with software vendors and recently established Communities of Interest (COIs) to test their electronic prescribing solution before a broader national rollout. COIs are locations involving at least one general practice and a community pharmacy in close proximity who MUST BOTH be ready to prescribe and dispense
Primary Care Impact: Final Instalment on Influenza Immunisations for 2020
The July count of recorded immunisations from data-sharing practices is now available in Primary Care Impact. It shows that data-sharing general practices across our region delivered 143,000 influenza immunisations during (despite!) COVID-19. While the data has not been adjusted for increases in the number of data-sharing practices year on year, it still looks to be
Primary Care Impact: Tweed Health for Everyone PDSA on COVID-19 Patient and Staff Safety
With COVID-19 outbreaks in Victoria and Sydney, now is a very good time to review and refresh your in-practice COVID-19 strategies. Practice Manager Alana Flohr from the Tweed Health for Everyone Superclinic has shared their comprehensive and detailed PDSA and photo gallery on increasing patient and staff safety during COVID-19. The PDSA and gallery are
Primary Care Impact: New PDSA on Improving Data Quality
Practice Nurse Pilar Otero and the team at King Street Medical in Murwillumbah have shared their PDSA on improving coding and recording of key data sets. It took the whole team to succeed, including the principal, the practice manager and all of the GPs. Learn how they did it via the ‘Shared PDSA Example(s)’ section
Primary Care Impact: Influenza Immunisation During COVID-19 to End of June
The Influenza immunisation during COVID-19 QI page has been updated with data shared with us to 30 June 2020. The hard work through April and May is clearly evident, with the July figures yet to come. We will provide a final analysis in the July update, but we can say now that this was a
Primary Care Impact Update
Nurse Led Cervical Cancer Screening Service Danielle Midgley, Practice Nurse at Tweed Coast Medical, has successfully implemented a nurse-led cervical cancer screening service. She has kindly shared her PDSA with you. We have added a new QI topic to the list in Primary Care Impact: Increase cervical cancer screening through a nurse-led screening service This
Introducing Primary Care Impact
A new space for QI, sharing ideas and successes We want to introduce a new section of our website: Primary Care Impact Primary Care Impact is a central point of resources and information for quality improvement and primary care projects. It is designed to make planning and delivering quality improvement more efficient for busy primary care providers and
Have You Registered for the Northern NSW Service Registration Assistant Yet?
Registered Northern NSW general practices are now publishing contact information directly to NNSWLHD – a great way to help improve hospital discharge summary delivery and ensure data quality. Many Northern NSW practices have now registered for the Service Registration Assistant or are in the process of registering. If you have not yet completed your registration,
Practice Incentives Program Update
The Department of Health’s Practice Incentives Program (PIP) Quality Improvement (QI) Incentive commenced on 1 August 2019. Over half of all eligible practices nationally signed up by the end of the first week. The first Incentive Payments will be made to practices in November 2019. If your practice has not yet registered for PIP QI
Practice Incentive Changes
The new Practice Incentives Program (PIP) Quality Improvement (QI) Incentive is scheduled to commence on 1 August 2019. As part of this change, four of the current PIPs (and their related Service Incentive Payments) will end on 30 July 2019. These are: Diabetes Asthma Cervical Screening Quality Prescribing While full details of the new PIP
