Seascape Medical Centre tackling influenza season
With the reopening of international borders and reduced COVID-19 restrictions, influenza is now circulating in the community for the first time in over 2 years. Hospital and laboratory surveillance shows influenza activity in the community is increasing rapidly, leading to an early start to the winter influenza season. This is on top of continuing COVID-19
RACGP flood recovery education now available
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has launched a two-part webinar series to support the recovery of general practices affected by recent New South Wales and Queensland flood events. Education attracts 2 CPD points and is available in two parts. Learning outcomes discuss financial recovery options that are available to practices affected
Webinar series explores COVID-19 and influenza outbreaks in RACFs
This three-part webinar series, starting 8 June, will explore allied and mental health MBS funding and effective strategies for prevention, response and recovery in residential aged care facilities (RACF) COVID/influenza (dual) outbreaks. COVID-19 outbreaks in RACFs have demonstrated the critical role for allied health and general practice in mitigating the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak.
Online panel to discuss domestic violence
Get to know local and national specialist support services and hear from an expert panel on ways you can develop your practice to recognise, respond, refer and record incidents of domestic and family violence. Domestic violence is a serious problem which impacts many NSW families. Every month, there are approximately 2,500 reports of domestic violence to the
New HealthPathways immunisation updates
The HealthPathways team has recently reviewed and updated 5 key immunisation pathways.
Scholarships now available: Applied Mental Health Studies courses
HETI Higher Education is offering scholarships for Older Persons Mental Health (OPMH) through its Applied Mental Health Studies courses in September 2022. This provides a great opportunity for NSW Health staff and Primary Health Network staff with an interest in Older Persons Mental Health to increase their skills in the area. The scholarships are open
Monkeypox webinar recording available
The Department of Health’s recent Monkeypox webinar recording is now available.
Fully funded APNA online training for CVC care coordinators ending soon
The Department of Veteran Affairs is funding a capped number of fully-funded training licences to nurses and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care workers who have patients in the Coordinated Veterans’ Care (CVD) Program. There are still some training courses available for practice nurses and other care coordinators through the Australian Primary Health
Making a difference to the rural health workforce
Elyce studied nursing and paramedicine with Charles Sturt University, leading her to work as a nurse in Young, Bathurst and Broken Hill as well as building her skills as a critical care nurse. Following this, she headed back to Wagga Wagga to commence her PhD and begin a new phase of her career lecturing at
Invitation to participate in research and help improve care for young people
The Black Dog Institute want to hear from GPs as they investigate whether digital interventions can assist youth awaiting access to mental health services.
Subsidised Advanced Life Support training now available in practices
Healthy North Coast has an exciting training opportunity now available for practices in the Mid North Coast and Northern NSW to gain Advanced Life Support skills in the comfort of their own practice. In order to reduce patient deterioration and poor outcomes for at-risk patients, GPs are at the front line of patient care to
Catch up with colleagues at your nearest clinical society this May
Regional clinical societies provide a great opportunity to come together with other primary health care professionals and talk through clinical topics particularly relevant to the local region. Held every quarter, each clinical society chooses a topic under an overarching theme – in this instance the theme for May is ‘end-of-life planning’. Each event is unique
