Latest General Practice Matters available
Posted on December 20, 2018
The latest issue of General Practice Matters is available here.
In this issue:
- Tas After Hours website and app available for patients over holiday period
- New Tasmanian HealthPathway: PrEP and PEP for HIV, carer support
- Change to surgical termination of pregnancy Tasmanian HealthPathway
- Health Care Homes program extended until June 2021
- Immunisation section of Communicable Diseases Prevention Unit holiday hours
- Schools, child care centres report circulating rash illness
- Consultation for Clinical Trials Governance Framework Project in 2019
- Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea: Travel recommendations
- Final report on Tasmanian guardianship laws recommends overhaul
- New immunisation data shows new high for Australian vaccine coverage
- Season’s greetings from Primary Health Tasmania
- The Check Up with Johanna McShane
Resources
- New My Health Record packs on their way
- New National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance website
- New fact sheets and data tables on vaccine preventable disease in Australia
- New RANZCP guidelines for treatment of anxiety disorders
Education
- Young people and My Health Record webinar
- Identifying and responding to family violence short e-learning course
- Nutritional medicine training coming to Hobart in March 2019
Events
- GP networking events: Redesign of Hospital Discharge (REHDI) Project
- Early detection of breast cancer and the role of the GP events
- Multimorbidity forums: Launceston and Hobart
- Advanced training in suicide prevention: Ulverstone