Westside Medical Centre tops 80% influenza vaccination rate for over 65s

The team at Westside Medical in Port Macquarie were concerned about the vulnerability of their high-risk patients to influenza this year. To increase vaccine uptake, they decided to apply the lessons learned from the past 18 months of vaccinating for SARS-CoV-2. These included: communicating vaccine availability providing information about vaccine safety and effectiveness, and addressing

Healthy North Coast webinar series explores a week of men’s health

Healthy North Coast is discussing men’s health over 5 days of informative lunchtime webinars this August. Join us over 5 days from 1:15pm – 1:55pm when 5 different speakers will talk 5 different health concerns for men. Click here to register for the series — you only need to register once and we’ll send you the links

HealthPathways a one-stop shop for MBS items

A new pathway – ‘Guide to MBS Items’, has been added to HealthPathways, capturing on one page frequently used Medicare Benefits Schedule item numbers for general practice, including those related to COVID-19. HealthPathways Clinical Editor, Dr Kate Allan, said the page was designed as a quick reference guide to the MBS. Its information applies Australia-wide,

Webinar on after hours care for general practice

Quality Practice Accreditation (QPA) is offering a client-only webinar on After Hours Care for General Practice. When your practice is closed you have a responsibility under the RACGP Standards for general practice, 5th edition to provide after hours care options for your patients. The webinar will explain the RACGP Standards requirements for areas of common

Let’s talk hypertension in primary care

Join Dr Austin May as he facilitates a conversation on hypertension management in the primary care setting. He will be with Dr Stephen Moore, Professor Neil Smart and Ingrid Sivertsen. Hypertension is a significant threat to population health. Globally, high blood pressure is directly linked to more than 8.5 million deaths every year.* Hypertension is

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.