Primary health and general practice

800 aged care workers receive COVID-19 vaccine during NQ blitz

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

Upcoming free MH4L program in Cairns

My Health for Life is a FREE health coaching program that focuses on changing behaviours and coaching people through behaviour change...

Vaccine rollout in Far North Queensland

Supported by Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), an in-reach Commonwealth Government vaccination team from Healthcare Australia (HCA) visited Star...

Make the Choice vaccination campaign for First Nations peoples

The Queensland Government, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) produced the...

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...

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