Book Your Virtual Visit to a Primary Care Wound Clinic
A Healthy North Coast Workforce Event Healthy North Coast invites GPs and Registered Nurses to learn more about complex wound management at a free online Wound Busters webinar. The online clinic, run by Cheryl Frank and Dr Stephen Yelland, should be of great interest to those working in primary care, community and aged settings. The
Primary Care Impact: Tweed Health for Everyone PDSA on COVID-19 Patient and Staff Safety
With COVID-19 outbreaks in Victoria and Sydney, now is a very good time to review and refresh your in-practice COVID-19 strategies. Practice Manager Alana Flohr from the Tweed Health for Everyone Superclinic has shared their comprehensive and detailed PDSA and photo gallery on increasing patient and staff safety during COVID-19. The PDSA and gallery are
COVID-19 Assessment and Management in Residential Aged Care
The new COVID-19 Assessment and Management in Residential Aged Care HealthPathway is for general practitioners and specialists assessing and managing patients in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). There is a handy link at the beginning of this pathway to the COVID-19 Information and  COVID-19 Initial Assessment and Management HealthPathways. The ‘Background‘ section provides a brief
Primary Care Impact: New PDSA on Improving Data Quality
Practice Nurse Pilar Otero and the team at King Street Medical in Murwillumbah have shared their PDSA on improving coding and recording of key data sets. It took the whole team to succeed, including the principal, the practice manager and all of the GPs. Learn how they did it via the ‘Shared PDSA Example(s)’ section
New COVID-19 Updates on HealthPathways
The Health Alert located on the HealthPathways home page has recently been updated with the following NSW Health link for quick and easy access: We have recently added a new NSW Health link about COVID-19 Testing – Getting test results to local GPs from local health districts (LHDs). This can be accessed from the COVID-19
CPD Survey for Allied Health Professionals
Southern Cross University wants to hear from allied health professionals who have participated in recent continuing professional development (CPD). They are conducting research to learn whether the knowledge gained via CPD motivates allied health professionals to create change in their professional practice. There has been some research into how CPD is delivered, but not how
GP Peer Support and Case Discussion Group
The Black Dog Institute is hosting an online GP case discussion and peer support group. Participants will have the opportunity to explore challenges faced in practice and provide peer support to others who may be experiencing similar issues. The group will meet fortnightly for eight sessions starting Monday 27 July. Accredited with both RACGP (40
Primary Care Impact: Influenza Immunisation During COVID-19 to End of June
The Influenza immunisation during COVID-19 QI page has been updated with data shared with us to 30 June 2020. The hard work through April and May is clearly evident, with the July figures yet to come. We will provide a final analysis in the July update, but we can say now that this was a
New Chronic Fatigue Syndrome HealthPathway
The new Chronic Fatigue Syndrome HealthPathway has undergone an intensive amount of work by one of our HealthPathways Clinical Editors, Dr Sarah Mollard. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID), remains a complicated and poorly understood disease. CFS can be diagnosed with a careful history, a
Primary Care Impact Update
Nurse Led Cervical Cancer Screening Service Danielle Midgley, Practice Nurse at Tweed Coast Medical, has successfully implemented a nurse-led cervical cancer screening service. She has kindly shared her PDSA with you. We have added a new QI topic to the list in Primary Care Impact: Increase cervical cancer screening through a nurse-led screening service This
Aged Care Education Packages
The Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care offers educational packages for health professionals who work with older people. Comprehensive Health Assessment of the Older Person A three day workshop for nurses with interactive, hands-on skills development aided by simulation mannequins. Update your clinical assessment skills while add to your hours of continuing professional education.
HETI Offers Psychiatric Medicine Scholarships to GPs
The Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) is offering GPs scholarships in its postgraduate Psychiatric Medicine program. Successful applicants will be offered scholarships for one to two units (up to 20 credit points) for semester two (3 August to 18 December 2020). The scholarship covers tuition fees for approved units. Full details are available here.
