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

COVID-19 Guidance for Community Pharmacies

NSW Health has updated their guidance for community pharmacies on COVID-19, including prevention of infection. Pharmacies should display signage to encourage patients with symptoms to seek COVID-19 testing by: Calling their GP Calling 1800 022 222 (healthdirect) Visiting a COVID-19 clinic Displaying information about testing near cold and flu products is also encouraged. A poster

DiRECT-AUS Diabetes Remission Replication Project Expansion

We are pleased to announce that the DiRECT-Aus Diabetes Remission Replication Project has expanded to the Clarence Valley and Ballina/Byron regions. Dietitians are a key role in the DiRECT-Aus project. We have been fortunate to employ three dietitians for the study, allowing us to expand the project. Visit the Primary Care Impact site for more

COVID-19 Assessment and Management in Residential Aged Care

The new COVID-19 Assessment and Management in Residential Aged Care HealthPathway is for general practitioners and specialists assessing and managing patients in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). There is a handy link at the beginning of this pathway to the COVID-19 Information and  COVID-19 Initial Assessment and Management HealthPathways. The ‘Background‘ section provides a brief

Do You Treat Patients Who Drink Heavily or Misuse Prescribed Drugs?

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has developed an alcohol and other drugs (AOD) education program to help GPs support patients experiencing AOD related problems. Treatment Skills Training is available for RACGP members who work in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage, in rural and remote practice, or treat a number of identified at risk

NSW Health Escalates COVID-19 Risk Rating

NSW Health has today escalated the risk rating for COVID-19 to a moderate risk level (amber). This requires all NSW Health employees to wear a surgical mask if they are within 1.5m of patients. Patients are also required to wear a mask where possible. This directive applies to hospital and community health settings and is

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

New COVID-19 Updates on HealthPathways

The Health Alert located on the HealthPathways home page has recently been updated with the following NSW Health link for quick and easy access: We have recently added a new NSW Health link about COVID-19 Testing – Getting test results to local GPs from local health districts (LHDs). This can be accessed from the COVID-19

Drug and Alcohol Addiction Education Program

The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) offers a drug and alcohol addiction education program that includes incentivised activities to help general practitioners address drug and alcohol addiction in their communities. Virtual workshops These highly interactive workshops are delivered monthly and provide the tools and techniques for GPs to address addiction issues and

Viral Hepatitis and COVID-19

Hepatitis NSW has developed a series of general information pages and detailed fact sheets relating to viral hepatitis and COVID-19. These will be updated regularly as further information about COVID-19 comes to hand. COVID-19 and hepatitis C Detailed hepatitis C information COVID-19 and hepatitis B Detailed hepatitis B information Hepatitis NSW offers a variety of

CPD Survey for Allied Health Professionals

Southern Cross University wants to hear from allied health professionals who have participated in recent continuing professional development (CPD). They are conducting research to learn whether the knowledge gained via CPD motivates allied health professionals to create change in their professional practice. There has been some research into how CPD is delivered, but not how

One New Case of COVID-19 in Northern NSW

Source: NNSWLHD media releasePublished: 16 July, 2020 One case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the last 24 hours in the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD). This brings the total cases to 56, as at 8pm Wednesday, 15 July. The new case is a person who travelled to Northern NSW from Melbourne, arriving at Ballina