Coffs Harbour Workshop

The Coffs Harbour First Learning Workshop focused on breast cancer screening and took place on May 3. Participant input is captured below.

You can contact our population health team on 02 6618 5400 if you have any questions or would like to provide some feedback.

What systems, skills or knowledge does your practice want to develop to improve screening rates?

  1. Protected time
  2. Systems
  3. Brochures/posters – in different languages
  1. Care plan questions – new patient form; nurse education – new process
  2. Recall and reminder – 1/2 mail out leaflets, 1/2 target other method

Who are the women in your practice who are underscreened?

  1. Women in their 50’s
  2. Culturally and linguistically diverse women especially women with refugee, Indian and Indigenous backgrounds
  3. Women with chronic disease processes e.g Type 2 diabetes, Hepatitis C
  4. Women with mental health issues
  1. Culturally and linguistically diverse women – especially women with Indian heritage
  2. Women in their early 50’s
  3. Women with co-morbidities

The Coffs Harbour Second Learning Workshop took place on July 18 2017. Participant input is captured below.

You can contact our population health team on 02 6618 5400 if you have any questions or would like to provide some feedback.

What has been a challenge?

  • Coding
  • Data cleaning
  • Clinical involvement in quality improvement
  • Scattered data
  • Recalling patients
  • Convincing patients to get a pap smear – especially elderly patients who have only had one sexual partner in their life

What has worked well?

  • Conversations around the benefits of screening
  • Support of the Collaborative
  • Data cleaning has been very positive
  • Questionnaire card at reception/waiting area
  • Good support from the PHN

Who are your cervical under-screeners?

  • Young mothers – too busy
  • Women with no regular Doctor

To be determined

Now you have a change to review your breast screening data, has your view on which women are under-screened changed?

To be determined.

We still believe that women of Indian origin are our most under-screened population.

What are your top three priorities when you get back to your practice?

  • Update Pap test opt outs
  • Fix Pap test pathology input to Pap tabs
  • Complete a “Cheat Sheet” for staff on screening recording
  • Opt out women who do not need the Pap test anymore
  • Target people who have not had a Pap test in the last four years before December 2017
  • Talk on women’s health in the community

This website is no longer active but is available to browse as a resource.

Women’s Cancer Screening Collaborative (WCSC) 2017-2018

Through the delivery of structured, clinician-led general practice quality improvement and health literacy interventions, general practices worked towards increasing access to and equity of women’s cancer screening programs across the North Coast.

From January 2017 to July 2018, general practices improved clinical systems and data auditing processes to better identify and remind never or under-screened at-risk populations of women. Focus groups were also held with at-risk women to understand the environmental and individual barriers and motivators to screening. 

This WCSC website acted as an information repository for all WCSC developed content providing access to and sharing of quality improvement tools, change strategy resources and ideas.

WCSC evaluation and resources can be found on the North Coast Primary Health Network. 

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