Digital Health Guide – You Can Be the Point of Difference
NCPHN has contracted Semantic Consulting to provide general practitioners (GPs) and allied health practitioners (AHPs) access to The Digital Health Guide – a platform that will enable health professionals to choose the right health app for their patients. In a previous newsletter article, we invited interested GPs and AHPs to become early adopters of the
North Coast GP Training Expressions of Interest Now Open: Clinical Societies and Nurse Networks
North Coast GP Training (NCGPT) has entered a partnership with NCPHN to deliver a range of local networking and education events for the North Coast primary healthcare workforce. The partnership includes establishing up to six Clinical Societies and four Nurse Networks across the region. NCGPT is looking for clinicians who are interested in: Participating in
Call for Poster Presentations – Aboriginal Health
The Centre for Healthcare Knowledge & Innovation (the Centre) is seeking poster presentations as part of its upcoming Revisiting Aboriginal Wellbeing conference series. Organisations and individuals delivering services to Aboriginal communities are invited to submit up to three projects that are delivered in partnership with another organisation. These programs should celebrate the strengths of our
The MothersBabies Study
The MothersBabies Study is an innovative study being conducted by the Microbiome Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. The study will be investigating how the microbiome impacts on pre-pregnancy health, throughout the woman’s pregnancy, and into the first year of their child’s life. What we eat, who we date, our physical activity, our environment, even our ethnicity
Be Part of National Child Protection Week (1 – 7 September)
Children do best when life is on an even keel and their parents have the support they need. By being kind to parents, supporting family-friendly policies and building connected communities, we’re all helping to give Australia’s children the best start in life. National Child Protection Week (1-7 September 2019) is all about celebrating the many ways
HealthSpeak August 2019
We’re celebrating 25 issues of HealthSpeak! The August edition is also the final magazine from editor Janet Grist, to whom we extend our thanks and a fond farewell as she ventures into retirement. This edition includes a feature story that outlines NCPHN’s vision for digital health in the region, along with profiles of the new
Let Us Know What You Think About HealthSpeak
With the 25th issue of HealthSpeak, we’re asking readers for their thoughts about the magazine and how it might better serve your needs. We are committed to keeping HealthSpeak relevant, topical and informative. Please help us by taking five minutes to fill out our online survey.
Five Considerations When Referring to Dietitians
By Amanda Clark, AdvAPD Dietary advice is everywhere: it’s on social media, TV commercials, reality shows, documentaries and across the internet. Not to mention the advice provided by friends. A dietitian should be an obvious choice for reliable nutritional advice, but which dietitian is right for the job? Dietitians are your on-hand qualified nutrition experts
Coping with Pain
by Dr Dan Ewald, Lead Clinical Adviser, NCPHN From my work with the Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions (HANDI), I can give you a heads-up on a new free internet-based resource for patients with persisting pain: painTRAINER. The effectiveness of training for pain-coping skills has been established for a while using face-to-face delivery, but it has now passed
Study on Managing Congestive Heart Failure
The University Centre for Rural Health is working with five long-stay fourth-year medical students from Western Sydney University to undertake a study aiming to identify the barriers and enablers experienced by rural GPs when managing congestive heart failure (CHF) in community dwelling patients. Participation in the study involves a semi-structured interview about the barriers and
Your Health Link National Photographic Competition Now Open
The Mid North Coast Local Health District is running a national photographic competition as part of the Your Health Link initiative, a strategy aimed at enhancing community understanding of health and health care information, and how people can apply that information to their lives. The program is endorsed by the Centre for Population Health, the
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
