Are You Ready?
Healthy North Coast has released a range of communications to ensure GPs in RACFs are ready for a COVID outbreak during the festive season. Firstly our Are You Ready checklists: 5 steps to prepare Your RACF has an outbreak Please print and keep handy over summer! All GPs working in residential aged care facilities (RACFs)
Could You Be the Voice of Your RACF GP Team?
Healthy North Coast’s COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility Outbreak GP Framework provides the opportunity for one GP at each facility to be a GP Team Leader. In an outbreak, the GP Team Leader’s function is communication. You will be paid to attend the RACF outbreak meeting remotely and liaise with your colleagues around the outcomes.
Are You Ready for COVID-19 This Christmas?
Christmas is coming, as are the tourists, so the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak in a residential aged care facility (RACF) is high. Do you know how to respond? The Primary Care Impact quality improvement activity for increasing GP preparedness for COVID-19 outbreak in RACF will guide you. Additional resources will be available in the
Are You a GP Working in a Residential Aged Care Facility?
If there is a COVID-19 outbreak, how will you replace the hours you lose each week? Why not consider the Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) GP Team Leader role? Over the last few months, Healthy North Coast has been implementing the COVID-19 RACF GP Framework. The initiative can be viewed on this Primary Care Impact
RACF COVID-19 Outbreak: Are You a Practice With a GP Considering the Team Leader Role?
Over the last few months, Healthy North Coast has been implementing the COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility Outbreak GP Framework. The framework supports GPs to be ready for an outbreak and provides the opportunity for one GP at each facility to be a GP Team Leader — a remote role whose sole purpose is communication.
GPs Working in RACFs: Are You Ready for an Outbreak of COVID-19?
For the past month, Healthy North Coast has run regular news stories to ensure GPs are ready for a COVID-19 outbreak in a residential aged care facility (RACF). We have put together the COVID-19 RACF GP Framework to guide how GPs will cover facilities in an outbreak. The framework outlines the key roles of the
RACF COVID-19 Outbreak – What Will It Be Like for RACF GPs?
As Healthy North Coast rolls out the COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) Outbreak GP Framework, we are being asked, “What will an outbreak be like? ” If your RACF and GP team are ready — i.e. you have implemented the framework — the outbreak will look like this in the first few hours: A resident
COVID-19 RACF Outbreak GP Framework – Are You a Team Leader?
The implementation of the COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility Outbreak GP Framework continues at a pace. Healthy North Coast is hearing from the RACF managers that GP Team Leaders are starting to come forward. Could this be a role for you? It is a remote role only and focuses on being a conduit with the
Online GP Support Group – RACF COVID-19 Response
Dr Michael Murray is the lead geriatrician at Austin Health and is currently working with the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre. He has started a Zoom support group for GPs working in geriatric care, with a particular focus on caring for residents in aged care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video meetings held to
Do You Have Patients in an Aged Care Facility?
A checklist for GPs with patients in aged care facilities has been developed by North Western Melbourne PHN, based on the Victorian experience. Click here to download the checklist. The checklist draws upon stakeholder experience and expertise. It includes input from Professor Michael Murray, the head of the Australian Government’s Victorian Aged Care Response Centre,
COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility Outbreak GP Framework Update
In case you missed it last week, Healthy North Coast has launched the COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) Outbreak GP Framework to support GP coverage in residential aged care facilities. Click images to download documents Fact Sheet Guidelines Management Kit Over 50 per cent of RACF managers across the region have attended a training
Launch of the COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility Outbreak GP Framework
COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities in Sydney and Victoria have demonstrated the critical role general practice plays in mitigating the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak for residents. For this reason, Healthy North Coast has launched the COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facility Outbreak GP Framework to support GP coverage in residential aged care facilities.
