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Cervical screening involves a simple test to check for human papillomavirus (HPV) – a common infection that causes almost all cervical cancers – before it has the chance to develop into abnormal or cancerous cells. Changes to the National Cervical Screening Program mean that all eligible screene...
About the Gold Coast Medicare Urgent Care Clinic Where is the Gold Coast Medicare Urgent Care Clinic? The Gold Coast Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) will be located at Our Medical Gold Coast, 2 Leo Graham Way, Oxenford. The UCC operates separately from the general practice and will be open from 8a...
From 1 November 2023, there will be new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) bulk-billing items with higher incentive payments. These payments are triple the amount of existing standard bulk-billing incentive payments. Doctors can use these for the following types of consultations: All face-to-face gene...
The Gold Coast Public Health Unit advises that there has been a resurgence of pertussis in our community recently. This has mostly been in school aged children, but there have been cases where vulnerable infants under six months of age have been affected. They remind clinicians that pertussis PCR sh...
With spring temperatures rising and the heat of summer months approaching, the Gold Coast is anticipating thunderstorms and the consequent risk of power failures. Vaccine service providers must be prepared to avoid loss of vaccines. If your vaccine refrigerator loses power, your vaccines may need to...
THE GCPHN QI Team’s focus in 2023-24 is to provide support for general practices to increase participation in self-collection for cervical screening. Did you know self-collection is accurate, safe, and culturally appropriate, encouraging those who have never screened, or stopped screening, to ...
From 1 October 2023, patients will be able to register for MyMedicare, a new voluntary registration model that aims to strengthen the relationship between patients, their general practice, general practitioner, and primary care teams to provide greater continuity of care. Part of this process for ...
More than a quarter of people on the Gold Coast are over 65, and 20 percent of them are frail. But there are 2 good news stories: Even though we’re all getting older, we don’t have to get frail. If you are showing some signs of frailty, you can stop the signs or even reverse […]
Dying to Know Day is on 8 August and is a timely reminder of the integral role General Practitioners play in promoting and facilitating advance care planning. GPs with their understanding of patients’ health and needs, are uniquely positioned to support individuals through the planning process, ad...
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 ...
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