North Coast Primary Care ‘Digital Discovery’ survey closed

The North Coast Primary Care ‘Digital Discovery’ project survey has now closed. The project facilitated general practice and Aboriginal Medical Services to share their digital technology experience and help establish readiness for digital health advancements. Digital health advancements in primary care are designed to improve operational and health system efficiencies and clinical outcomes. Last month,

Anglicare offering training in Suicide Prevention for Seniors

If you work with older people and would like to learn how to help prevent suicide, the free Suicide Prevention for Seniors Program can provide the training you need. Run by Anglicare and funded by the NSW Government, the program consists of a two-pronged approach. The first is ‘Question, Persuade, Refer’ (QPR) online training. This

Alstonville Clinic undertakes QI initiative to deliver gender affirming healthcare

The team at Alstonville Clinic recently took on Primary Care Impact quality improvement activity, Improving general practice engagement with transgender and gender diverse people to deliver inclusive and gender affirming healthcare to their patients. This is an important QI activity as the needs of the transgender, gender diverse and non-binary (TGDNB) people are an important

RACGP release Winter Planning Toolkit for GPs

RACGP has released their Winter Planning Toolkit to help GP practices consider winter preparedness activities for the health and safety of patients and staff. The toolkit will cover 7 modules, highlighting key priorities and principles. The toolkit includes information on: vaccination preventative measures testing managing patients providing care for priority populations staffing infection prevention education.

Asthma education and training available online and face to face  

The National Asthma Council Australia is running their national program of free asthma best practice education workshops in the coming weeks. The training is available for primary health care professionals and allied health professionals, both in-person and online. Training is available in online webinar format or face-to-face workshops and the National Asthma Council Australia handle

The first 2000 days webinar 2: antenatal care

Build your knowledge, confidence and skills to provide support and referral pathways to families and young children in the first 2000 days with part two of this webinar series. This interactive webinar, facilitated by Clinical Midwifery Consultant for the Mid North Coast Local Health District, Frances Guy, will provide in-depth information on how to access

Opportunity to join the HealthPathways team

Are you a GP who is passionate about medical education and regional health systems improvement?   Are you seeking a new challenge and the chance to use your leadership, problem solving and communication skills in a non-clinical setting? Healthy North Coast is advertising two roles for GPs in non-clinical setting, supporting the HealthPathways and Education teams. 

HealthPathways update June 2022

The COVID-19 HealthPathways continue to be regularly updated as new information becomes available. New pathways added to our Mid and North Coast HealthPathways website are outlined below: Dyspepsia and GORD Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Claiming MBS Items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Care Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Co-payment Measure SafeScript NSW SafeScript NSW – Clinical Support

Immunisation update roadshow timely as flu season hits

Healthy North Coast recently partnered with North Coast Public Health to deliver 6 education dinners, with many highlights and key takeaways. Maintaining high immunisation coverage rates is something that all primary health care providers need to achieve. Most vaccinations are provided in primary care settings and it’s important that immunisation providers remain up to date

The first 2000 days of life webinar series: Part 2

‘The first 2000 days’ webinar series is an opportunity to build your knowledge, confidence and skills to provide support and referral pathways to families and young children.

Improve health literacy within your practice

Approximately 60% of Australian adults have low health literacy. This means more than half of the people who visit our health services have trouble understanding day-to-day health information and managing their health. People with limited health literacy report poorer health outcomes, are less likely to take up preventative health behaviours, such as screening and immunisation,

Free online IBD education for GPs and physicians

Crohn’s & Colitis Australia has released a range of free GP and physician education resources to support you in the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Created for their GP Aware Project, health care professionals can access online eLearning modules, interactive workshops and webinars. This reliable and up-to-date information also includes: the GP’s role in