Webinar explores how to increase Indigenous health equity
A free webinar – Better Care Everywhere: Enhancing Health Equity Across ANZ – will be held on Thursday, 24 March at 5pm. Everyone is entitled to equitable health opportunities and resources in order to be healthy and empowered. Yet data shows there’s still significant health inequity across the ANZ region, particularly in rural, remote and
Let’s talk about sex: sexuality and sexual difficulties
On Friday 25 March and Saturday 2 April, Monash University will host an introductory online course in sexual medicine and therapy. The course will discuss the need to talk about sex, the obstacles in talking about sex and empowering registrants to raise and discuss topics of sexuality and sexual difficulties with their patients or clients.
New HealthPathway will help women with complications following pregnancy termination
A new HealthPathway – Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) Follow-up – has been established for women who may be experiencing complications after terminating a pregnancy. HealthPathways Clinical Editor Dr Kate Allan said the pathway was developed in response to a need in the community. Local general practitioners and gynaecologists contributed to developing the pathway in during
Neurology update at MNCSOC
Dr Andre Loiselle, Consultant Neurologist has regretfully made the decision to cease visiting the Mid North Coast Specialist Outreach Clinic after 14 years of service, however, will continue to report EEGs which are performed at the clinic Monday and Tuesday weekly. Dr Balaji Kalband, Consultant Neurologist will be replacing Dr Loiselle’s clinics and kindly offered
Emergency health funding available for rural and remote doctors and their communities
When disaster strikes, it doesn’t discriminate based on location. This means that crucial health services in rural and remote communities, already stretched to their limits, can be heavily impacted. It could be the single-doctor town whose clinic and equipment didn’t make it. Townspeople cut off from lifesaving health services. Or areas simply over-run with illness
Mental health high on PM’s ‘extra support’ list
An additional $31.2 million for mental health support services is one of a range of measures promised to flood affected communities in northern NSW this week. Making the funding pledge was Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who toured Lismore and surrounding areas on Wednesday, viewing some of the devastation and meeting with community leaders. He also
HealthPathways Disaster Management guidelines updated
As flood recovery continues, Healthy North Coast is reminding health professionals that detailed disaster management information and advice is available on Mid and North Coast HealthPathways. HealthPathways Clinical Editor Dr Sarah Mollard said lessons learned from the 2019-20 bushfires and 2021 floods helped inform recent updates to the pathway Disaster Management – General Practice Response.
PCOS in general practice study – call for participants
Western Sydney and Monash Universities are undertaking research on the translation of clinical guidelines on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in general practice. The project aims to understand the barriers to and enablers of using tools that have been developed to assist GPs in providing care to women with PCOS. The project is led by Dr
Exploring the GP-Patient relationship
We are seeking GPs and their practices willing to participate in a study exploring how healing GP-Patient relationships are experienced and cultivated. Patients of consenting GPs will be invited to complete an initial patient survey, after which a smaller number of patients and their GPs will be invited to participate in semi-structured interviews and complete
NNSW hospital mental health admission and discharge notifications now live
Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD) has now gone live with their mental health admission and discharge notifications (ADNs). This is an extension to their existing ADN services, with ADNs previously being delivered for chronic disease patients. Hospital admission and discharge notifications are intended to improve the flow of information to the GP about a
Lismore, Casino & Kyogle Clinical Society to talk drug and substance use
On Tuesday 1 March, the Lismore, Casino & Kyogle Clinical Society will meet online to discuss drug and substance use. As voted by Lismore, Casino & Kyogle Clinical Society members, drug and substance use is one of the most serious health concerns in the local region. This is consistent with the 2018 Local Health Needs
Dr Austin May to talk hypertension
Join Dr Austin May as he facilitates a conversation on hypertension management in the primary care setting. With Dr Stephen Moore, Neil Chapman and Carolyn Davis. 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 consistently one of the
