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The General Practice Liaison Unit (GPLU) is seeking expressions of interest to join the growing team of GPs with Special Interest (GPwSIs) at Gold Coast Health. We are currently seeking GPs would like to work on a flexible part-time basis within: Geriatric medicine, including the cognitive disorders...
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has released it’s Queensland courses they will be running in 2019. These short face-to-face CPD courses have been developed to assist nurses in achieving the hours required by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) for annual renewal and aut...
With the new year upon us, it is an ideal time for general practices to ensure that their general practitioners (GPs) details are up to date within the Secure Transfer Service (STS) system. If your practice is new, or if you have had any changes in GP staff it is essential that this information is [...
Gold Coast Hospital and Health Services have seen an increase in referrals received for Specialist Outpatient Services (such as cardiology) where the patient has presented with an emergent condition that should have been seen via the emergency department. If a patient presents with chest pain or any...
The Australian Government has confirmed it will provide $1.45 billion for community mental health services and change the funding model to ensure security for both jobs and services. The funding will be provided through Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) and the 30 other Primary Health Networ...
Gold Coast Health (GCH) has introduced a new hotline for general practitioners (GPs) to have access to information about their patients. The new service is available for GPs who require assistance to find results or information about appointments and recent admissions and who need support navigating...
Gold Coast Health (GCH) will no longer perform routine surveillance of colon polyps for patients older than 78 years. This decision is based on guidelines from the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program and the Department of Health. Download the full procedure for more information. The intervals fo...
Paediatric Pearls from Gold Coast Health The vast majority of children referred for assessment of plagiocephaly have positional plagiocephaly (deformational plagiocephaly). Whilst the physical appearance can be alarming for parents it does not affect brain development and treatment is generally not ...
From 1 November 2018, a number of changes were made to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for respiratory function tests. These changes include spirometry and a new MBS item for spirometry has been introduced. Item 11505 attracts a $41.10 Medicare rebate for an office-based, pre/post broncho...
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet is a massive evidence-based free-to-access web resource providing up-to-date, relevant content to support the work of health practitioners and policy makers and has been providing this for over 21 years. It has been funded by the Australian Department of Hea...
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