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Many Year 7 and Year 10 students missed their School Immunisation Program (SIP) vaccines due to various reasons including sickness, travel, anxiety, home schooling and parental consent issues. It is important to note the AIR Immunisation History Statement will not show adolescent immunisations due u...
GPGC held a very successful event with more than twenty members attending a joint education night with Pacific Rheumatology & Novartis in early August, which was led by board member and Treasurer Dr Luke Ward. Our event was tailored using the education style, format and content that GPGC members...
Ageing well in our General Practice waiting rooms – what can we offer? The Intergenerational Report released in 2020 highlighted something many GPs, nurses, managers, and receptionists are very familiar with. People are living longer and there are rapidly increasing numbers ...
The 2023 Q3 PIP QI data report for the Gold Coast region has recently been sent by email to all PIP QI registered practices to assist with your QI activities. This report will allow you to compare your practice PIP QI results to the aggregated data for the region by using Primary Sense data report...
In consultation with our council of clinicians, GCPHN has developed helpful posters for general practitioners to empower their patients with the skills and tools needed to improve their health literacy. In Australia, 60% of people have low health literacy. This contributes to worse health outcomes i...
VACCINATION May 2023 – Minimum dose intervals and multiple doses Trusted healthcare professionals play a pivotal role in converting vaccine hesitant parents to accept vaccination. Up to 90% of parents would trust their GP to influence their decision. Unfortunately, it is becoming common for ch...
As an early adopter of Primary Sense, and in my role as Chair of the Primary Sense National Clinical Advisory Group, I have witnessed Primary Sense’s evolution from a tool used by more than 700 Gold Coast-based GPs, (representing almost 90 per cent of the region’s population), to a scaled-up ver...
GPs are often the first point of contact for people seeking mental health support, often presenting with a range of interrelated factors that can make it challenging to determine the most appropriate level of care. To conduct a patient-centred and holistic assessment, the IAR guides clinicians to co...
Child and Family Support Services Expo for Professionals GCPHN will be attending the Child and Family Support Services Expo for Professionals as an exhibitor on Monday 8th of May at Burleigh Heads State School, and on Wednesday 10th May at Helensvale Community Centre. Proudly hosted by the Gold Coas...
Health professionals can now view Medicare cards in the myGov app. Your patients can now securely store a digital version of their Medicare card in their myGov app wallet. Medicare cards in the myGov app will look similar to those in the Express Plus Medicare app and physical cards. To protect again...
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