Woodburn Health calls on Shannon Noll in their search for a GP
Woodburn Health have turned to friends in high places to help in their search for a GP. Watch the footage from A Current Affair in May.
HealthPathways update – May 2025
Mid and North Coast HealthPathways provides best-practice guidance on how to assess, manage and refer patients to local services in a timely manner. See the latest new, reviewed and updated pathways below: New HealthPathways: Vulvovaginal Candidiasis Anticipatory Prescribing for End-of-Life Care Reviewed & updated HealthPathways (Clinical): Cervical Screening Osteoporosis Medications for Osteoporosis Mild Brain Injury
The countdown is on: Chronic and Complex Care Forum 2025
With not long to go, excitement is building for the Chronic and Complex Care Forum 2025, taking place on Saturday, 31 May at Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbour. This full-day event brings you, our local primary care providers, together to explore the latest in chronic and complex care. Designed for you, the forum offers a
allergy assist: A new allergy advice service connecting rural doctors with clinical immunology/allergy specialists
allergy assistâ„¢ is a free national online service designed to provide rural doctors with education and advice from clinical immunology/allergy specialists. This service aims to improve patient access in rural, remote and First Nations communities by supporting local doctors to diagnose, treat and manage patients locally resulting in reduced wait times for specialist consultations and
Why you should attend the Chronic and Complex Care Forum 2025
Healthy North Coast has released its health needs assessment for 2025-2028, offering a comprehensive overview of the region’s health priorities and challenges. This assessment, developed through extensive community engagement and data analysis, will guide our future health service planning and commissioning across the North Coast. It has also helped form the topics for the upcoming
Warning about Paxlovid in transplant recipients
Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir) is recommended as a treatment for COVID-19 for patients at high risk of severe disease. However, Paxlovid significantly increases the serum concentrations of calcineurin inhibitors (e.g. cyclosporin, tacrolimus). Calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) are immunosuppressive medications which are commonly given in the setting of solid-organ transplantation, and certain autoimmune diseases. Locally, we have seen recent
Mid and North Coast HealthPathways update
A number of pathways have been reviewed and updated on the Mid and North Coast HealthPathways website, enabling primary care clinicians locally agreed information to make the right decisions, together with patients, at the point of care. Reviewed and updated HealthPathways Clinical: Antenatal Shared Care (ANSC) Action Plans ADHD Medications for Children and Adolescents Adult Sepsis
End-of-Life Law workshop: Essential legal insights for residential and community aged care providers
Healthy North Coast recently hosted an End-of-Life Law workshop in Coffs Harbour, where a gathering of clinicians had plenty of questions on navigating this complicated element of care. The interactive workshop, led by Katrine Del Villar (End of Life Law for Clinicians, Queensland University of Technology) and Dr Andy Williams, guided participants through a clinical
Expression of interest: Be a Placement Program Leader and shape the future of aged care
Hunter Primary Care is calling for aged care professionals from the Mid North Coast and Northern NSW to join the Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program leadership group. This leadership group will play a crucial role in strengthening relationships between higher education providers, Vocational Education and Training (VET) institutions, and the aged care sector to
Know a nurse who would like to be a student mentor?
Hunter Primary Care are offering casual work for experienced Registered Nurses to spend an hour per day with a student to support them during their aged care placement. Casual facilitators are required across the Mid North Coast and Northern NSW areas, wherever there may be an aged care home nearby. “This is a great semi-retirement
Investing in residential aged care nurses on the North Coast
Across the footprint, nurses recently shared insights into their training needs, including how they like to learn and what gets in the way. With this in mind, Healthy North Coast has engaged industry leading nurse education specialists Kim Poyner and Riwka Hagen to deliver a RACH nurse training program developed specially for residential aged care
Applications open now for 2025 Opioid Treatment Accreditation Course (OTAC) Scholarship
The Opioid Treatment Accreditation Course (OTAC) Scholarship supports general practitioners and nurse practitioners in regional, remote and metropolitan areas in NSW to complete the training program, become accredited prescribers of opioid pharmacotherapies, and to prescribe opioid pharmacotherapies for the treatment of opioid dependence. Scholarship value Successful applicants will receive a scholarship valued at up to
