
GCPHN News
General practitioners (GPs) who are taking, or are interested in taking, medical students or registrars are invited to this GP Trainer Workshop, which aims to upskill and support GPs involved in teaching students on placement. The aim is to share the updated curriculum for students, discuss its implementation, and exchange teaching tips and tricks to support quality teaching in General Practice.
4 RACGP QI&CPD Category 2 Points have been approved for this workshop, activity: 149652 in the RACGP QI&CPD Program for the 2017– 2019 triennium.
We have recently added some helpful information on endometriosis from Dr Donald Angstetra, who has a special interest in endometriosis. The PDF is useful for GPs and can be given to patients.
Some Gold Coast practices have recently reported difficulties entering Health Identifier (HPI-I) details into their clinical software.
On further investigation the Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) Digital Health team identified that healthcare professionals must use their full Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registered name within practice clinical software, before their HPI-I can be validated for My Health Record.
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General Practice Liaison Unit
In December of 2018, Queensland Health announced the establishment of a comprehensive state-wide specialised service for women with pelvic mesh complications.
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.
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 the Health Service.
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 required.
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.
The Gold Coast Health Paediatric Nurse Navigators support children and families by coordinating their care, increasing their health literacy and working in partnership with all the clinicians involved to improve patient outcomes.
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