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In celebration of Cervical Screening Awareness Week, the pivotal role of health professionals in promoting screening options is highlighted. Under the National Cancer Screening Program (NCSR), participants now have the choice between self-collected vaginal samples or provider-collected cervix sample...
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, The Australian Government has announced that Shingrix® will replace Zostavax® on the National Immunisation Program. It will be funded for anyone who is: 65 years and older a First Nations person aged 50 years and older immunocompromised people aged 18 years and older with med...
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...
Are you new to primary health care, or interested in mentoring someone who is? The October 2023 intake of APNA’s Transition to Practice Program is now open for applications. New to primary health care? Designed for nurses entering primary health care and looking for extra support, APNA’s...
Here are some useful tips for using the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). How to amend an incorrectly recorded vaccination How to submit information to the AIR for a non-Medicare individual How to correctly report influenza vaccines to the AIR How to report newborn vaccinations for infants who...
GCPHN is offering 10 general practice teams the opportunity to participate in a Cervical Screening Self-collection Project. Did you know in Queensland, around 200 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year? Regular cervical screening is crucial for protection against cervical cancer and over...
Submitting a second vaccination encounter to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) does not amend or remove a previously incorrectly recorded encounter. This may result in the second encounter going into a pend status. Providers will be contacted to clarify the correct vaccine code. These delay...
Gold Coast Public Health Unit replaces GP faxes with secure emails 16 August 2023 The Gold Coast Public Health Unit (GCPHU) is transitioning to electronic communication with General Practices. Kiteworks will replace the current fax communication process. Kiteworks is a secure information transfer sy...
Infants who are not yet enrolled in Medicare can have their vaccination encounters recorded directly onto the AIR following vaccination. Using the AIR site 1. Search the AIR for an existing AIR record to prevent creating a duplicate record. When conducting the search, enter: · Baby’s first name Â...
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