Primary health and general practice

Mission Australia’s Youth Survey COVID Report 2020

The report draws on data from Mission Australia’s 19th annual Youth Survey of young people aged 15 to 19 years to provide unique insights from responses to...

GPs in Schools pilot overview

The purpose of the pilot is to provide secondary students who may otherwise face barriers to receiving timely and appropriate...

Ongoing open EOI for general practices to join COVID-19 vaccination program rollout

To support broad access to COVID-19 vaccines across Australia, there are still opportunities for general practices to join the vaccine...

New telehealth MBS item numbers 405

From 1 July 2021, the broad range of telehealth telephone items for GPs and OMPs established in response to the...

New Brief Interventions for a Healthy Lifestyle eLearning suite

The modules are suitable for all health and community service workers in all settings and contain modules on: nutrition and physical...

Resources to support prescribers around upcoming scheduling changes for nicotine vaping products

Under the new arrangements, prescribers will be able to seek authorisation from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to be Authorised...

Changes to QLD Criminal Code – Child Sexual Offences

The two new offences (Criminal Code, Chapter 22 – Offences against morality) include: ss. 229BB – Failure to protect a...

Reforms to Closing the Gap PBS Co-payment program

Some of the changes being implemented from 1 July 2021 are: any PBS prescriber can register eligible Aboriginal and/or Torres...

More than 1,200 aged care residents and staff receive COVID-19 vaccine during FNQ blitz

Supported by Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), five vaccination teams from in-reach Commonwealth Government vaccination workforce Healthcare Australia (HCA)...

How to identify your patients at risk of influenza complications

People at highest risk of being hospitalised with flu are: babies people more than 65 years old Aboriginal and Torres...

Raising awareness during World Haemochromatosis Week

If undetected and untreated, haemochromatosis leads to a number of chronic conditions including osteoarthritis, heart disease, and severe liver consequences...

Proposed changes to the scheduling of sodium nitrite

As a stakeholder that may be impacted by the proposed change, health care professionals are invited to provide feedback on the...

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