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Below are some recent updates in the area of digital health for general practice including information around Queensland roll out of eScripts, electronic prescription courses, PRODA, changes to Telehealth, National Bowel Cancer Screening and My Health Record. New Digital Health Privacy and Security ...
Carl’s Corner – Reflections of a Clinical Lead, Gold Coast Primary Health Network Irrigating the garden of general practice Spring has sprung with an abundance of fragrant blossoms, buzzing bees and warmer weather. Inspired by nature, my family felt the time was right to invest in a rai...
Updates from Dr Roger Halliwell (Chair of GCPHN) and Dr Kat Mclean (Acting Chair of GPGC Board). Dr Roger Halliwell Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) Board Chair Spring has arrived! This is a great time of year with warmer temperatures and mainly low humidity, ideal to enjoy the outdoors. It...
Volunteering Gold Coast (VGC) has over 50 hand-picked volunteers who are available to support your elderly patients at no charge under the Federal Government’s Community Visitors Scheme (CVS). CVS is available to anyone receiving a Home Care Package and aims to address loneliness and isolation amo...
Gold Coast Health are seeking general practices interested in partnering with the GP Liaison Psychiatry Service from Gold Coast Health’s Mental Health Service. The GP Liaison (GPL) Psychiatry Service provides a collaborative contact point for GPs and is especially useful for supporting patient...
A specialist COVID-19 Health Care Support Service has been established by Queensland Health, to complement the existing exemption process available for people needing to access essential health care or enhanced support whilst undertaking quarantine. This new unit, in place from 4 September 2020, wil...
Version 2.1 of the Australian Asthma Handbook is now available online. This update, available on the Australian Asthma Handbook website, outlines important new recommendations including information on avoiding the underuse of preventer medicines by people with asthma and the corresponding over-reli...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Advanced Skills Training is a personalised learning program for GPs wanting to elevate their skills to support treatment of alcohol and drug use in their patients. Registrations for the course, which will tak...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) have programs available to assist GPs in enhancing their skills to identify and support patients with problematic or harmful drug and alcohol use. Both the RACGP and ACRRM Al...
The Australian Government Department of Health has announced it will provide ten additional Medicare subsidised psychological therapy sessions for people subject to further restrictions in areas impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, these sessions can be accessed primarily by residents of Vi...
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