HealthPathways Evaluation
The HealthPathways program has recently embarked upon an evaluation process to assess its value to clinicians and the health system, and to identify opportunities for improvement. Mid and North Coast HealthPathways is delivered by a collaboration between Healthy North Coast, the Mid North Coast Local Health District and the Northern NSW Local Health District. It
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
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
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
HealthPathways COVID-19 Vaccination Update
There are currently two statewide COVID-19 vaccination pathways being developed by the Nepean Blue Mountains HealthPathways Team. These pathways will address general practice readiness and vaccination immunisation. Once the pathways are available on our website, we will notify you via our practitioner newsletter. We expect the pathways will be available within the next two weeks.
HealthPathways Update – February 2021
New HealthPathways have recently been published on the Mid and North Coast HealthPathways website. New to HealthPathways Prostate Cancer Follow-up Post Treatment Prostatitis Admission and Discharge Notifications Reviewed HealthPathways Suicidal Ideation or Intent Scheduling a Patient Electronic Hospital Discharge Summaries Anaemia in Adults Hepatitis B (HBV) Positive Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) National Bowel Cancer
Change to Login for Mobile-Friendly HealthPathways
Mid and North HealthPathways is advising that from Wednesday 24 February 2021, users may be prompted more regularly to log back into the mobile site. This is coming into effect to improve the accuracy of our reporting data. The change will not affect: Users who have previously saved their password by accepting the ‘remember me’
HealthPathways Update – January 2021
New HealthPathways have recently been published on the Mid and North Coast HealthPathways website. New HealthPathways Cancer Care Nursing Sepsis in Children (Including Meningitis) Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Adults Reviewed/Updated HealthPathways Breast Screening Services Breast Symptoms and Suspected Breast Cancer Breast Cancer – Established Breast Cancer Follow-up Breast Pain (Mastalgia) Aboriginal and Torres Strait
New Post-COVID-19 Conditions HealthPathway
The Mid and North Coast HealthPathways team is continuing to work on relevant COVID-19 HealthPathways. We have just published the Post-COVID-19 Conditions HealthPathway. Post-COVID sequelae are common, affecting 10-35% of patients with mild to moderate disease but closer to 80% of patients admitted to hospital with the illness. Knowledge of post-COVID 19 conditions is still
HealthPathways Patient Information Website Update
From 10 December 2020, patient information on HealthPathways will only be accessible via the ‘For Patients’ section. The HealthPathways Patient Information website will be decommissioned, and the icon will be removed from the HealthPathways home page. All the same patient information will be available within the HealthPathway. If you are looking for further resources, you
