Primary Health Tasmania has launched a new suite of deprescribing resources for local health practitioners. The resources include: • a series of downloadable or printable guides covering the following medications: o allopurinol o antihyperglycaemic agents o antihypertensive agents o antipsychotics o aspirin o benzodiazepines o biphosphonates o cholinesterase inhibitors o glaucoma eye drops o non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs…
Encouraging, engaging and empowering. They’re the three words that sum up the north west suicide prevention trial site’s Doing Better Together grants. Nominations for the grants opened in early March, with funding available to help community organisations turn their ideas for a suicide prevention or wellbeing activity into reality. It’s all part of the Tasmanian…
Question: How do you give members of a local community a safe place to chat when they’re scattered up and along Tasmania’s east coast? Answer: You put it on the road. The Safe Place Café is a mobile coffee van that travels to a different part of the Break O’Day region for two days each…
Shortness of breath, blood in one’s urine, skin spots that have started to change shape — they’re things you may already know to look out for as potential early signs of cancer. Even so, building community knowledge about a wide range of early warning signs is critical to helping people seek out medical and treatment…
More than 300 health professionals from across Tasmania recently took part in our 2019 Immunisation Update events in Hobart, Burnie and Launceston. Dr Leanne Jones, GP director of the Immunisation Coalition, provided an update on the annual Australian influenza statistics, an overview of influenza, vaccine, chronic conditions, those most at risk and practice points. Dr…
This year, Primary Health Tasmania made six sponsorships of up to $2000 available to practices nurses from across the state to attend the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association‘s national conference in Adelaide. Ultimately, six practices nurses and one Health Care Homes practice nurse made the trip to South Australia – a professional opportunity that,…
