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Did you know that men are 50% less likely to seek medical attention compared to women but those that do experience improved health outcomes. Let’s change this by prioritising our health this Men’s Health Week. The Queensland Government funded program, My health for life, is raising awareness of ...
Vaccine Temperature Monitoring The National Vaccine Storage Guidelines ‘Strive for 5’ (3rd edition) states that ALL purpose-built vaccine refrigerators (PBVRs) MUST have a data logger and thermometer to monitor refrigerator temperature continuously. PBVR temperature monitoring checklist: Data lo...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the 5th leading cause of death in Australia and frequently occurs in the context of multiple long-term conditions or multimorbidity. The Activating Primary Care COPD Patients with Multimorbidity (APCOM) Trial is a randomized controlled clinical trial t...
Bringing light back into a child’s life after abuse or neglect GCPHN’s Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) Child LightSaver Series is an educational set of articles aimed at assisting general practice to navigate the OOHC Health Assessment Pathway, which is focused on providing children and young people the...
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...
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