Creating a Better Work/Life Balance When You Are a Frontline Responder

We were delighted to have the opportunity to speak with Dr Tonya Coren last month. We’d love to hear from more clinicians practising in our region and share your story. Click here to contact us today. After nearly a year working on the front line in a respiratory clinic, testing patients for COVID-19, Dr Tonya

Free Health Literacy Course

General Practices Prepare for Possible Outbreak

With a COVID-19 case now identified in the Northern Rivers, it is timely for general practices to review their COVID-19 patient care and practice management. HealthPathways offers a number of comprehensive pathways to support general practice: COVID-19 Practice Management COVID-19 Initial assessment and management COVID-19 Ongoing Assessment and Management COVID-19 Referrals COVID-19 MBS Items COVID-19

Updates to Disaster Management HealthPathways

The Disaster Management HealthPathways have been updated to reflect the current flood disaster response. Disaster Management – General Practice Response Updated to include: Emergency information about NSW flood evacuation orders How to access the free Healthy North Coast GP Telehealth service to support people in evacuation centres How to access disaster relief recovery payments for

Primary Care Impact: Improve Preparation of Emergency Equipment

All general practices need to ensure comprehensive emergency protocols, equipment and medicines are in place to achieve best practice and manage adverse events following immunisation. Thanks to a suggestion from Dr John Moran at King Street Medical Centre, Primary Care Impact has introduced a new QI activity to assist general practices to prepare and audit their emergency equipment, including the must-have contents

HealthPathways Update – March 2021

New HealthPathways have recently been published on the Mid and North Coast HealthPathways website. New to HealthPathways Preparing for COVID-19 Vaccination Preparing for COVID-19 Vaccination COVID-19 Vaccination Procedure Urinary Incontinence in Women Reviewed and Updated HealthPathways Bowel Cancer Symptoms Previous Bowel Polyp Surveillance Inflammatory Bowel Disease Colonoscopy Surveillance Bowel Cancer Screening Previous Bowel Cancer Colonoscopy

Primary Care Impact: Influenza Vaccination Activities to Improve Safety and Reach High-Risk Groups

Immunisations are an essential health service. Community members and immunisation providers are urged to continue these practices during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout. Vaccination providers must ensure a 14-day gap between COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations. Visit our new Primary Care Impact quality improvement activity to improve checks on patient vaccination status when delivering influenza and COVID-19

Primary Care Impact: Socially Distanced Vaccination in General Practice

As general practices are faced with the concurrent rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine and influenza vaccine, clinic procedures still need to adhere to social distancing and infection control guidelines. The Primary Care Impact topic for socially distanced vaccination in general practice has been relaunched. This time, it includes a shared PDSA from Dr Lerm’s Surgery. Check it out to see how their planning and team approach resulted

New Resources to Support COVID-19 Vaccination in General Practice

New HealthPathways New HealthPathways for COVID-19 Vaccination Procedure and Preparing for COVID-19 Vaccinations are now live. COVID-19 Vaccination Procedures This pathway will be updated frequently when new information is released by the Department of Health, the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. It is recommended that general practitioners check this

COVID-19 Vaccination HealthPathways Update

The new COVID-19 Vaccination Information HealthPathway is now live. The pathway was developed by the Nepean Blue Mountains HealthPathways Team, in consultation with NSW Health, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, and the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance The pathway is a statewide pathway and will be updated regularly as needed. The

Tweed Banora Medical Centre Don’t Miss a Beat When It Comes to Heart Health

Staff and clinicians at Tweed Banora Medical Centre had a lot of fun with their Healthy Heart Awareness campaign during the month of February. They decorated their practice as well as dressed in red to raise awareness of the importance of having a healthy heart check. To complete this quality improvement activity, the practice: Provided

Improve FOBT Screening in Your Practice

Primary Care Impact has a new quality improvement activity to help improve FOBT screening of people aged 50-74 in your practice. This QI activity was prompted by Maria Clinic in Casino. Practice Manager Gene Allder-Conn was concerned that not all patients in the target age group were being offered screening. Of those who were, less