The QCVIPC project commenced in June 2020 as a 12-month Quality Improvement pilot project, this project was scheduled to conclude in December 2021, however as decided by the funding body and project sponsor this pilot project recently concluded on 20 August 2021.

The Cairns and Hinterland Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan (SPCAP) is a community and sector endorsed path forward for coordinated suicide prevention activities across the region.

NQPHN recently hosted a trade table with FNQ HealthPathways at the Ramsay Cairns GP Conference as a Bronze sponsor. The annual event, held on Saturday 31 July and Sunday 1 August at the Shangri-La The Marina Cairns, was attended by more than 100 general practitioners.

Queensland Lived Experience Workforce Network (QLEWN), Queensland Alliance for Mental Health (QAMH), and Brisbane North PHN are working together to explore the supply and demand, and most importantly the quality of available training in Queensland for the relatively new and growing peer workforce.

The Foundations of Chronic Disease program is aimed at a range of health professionals working within Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health or have Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients.

The University of Melbourne is seeking feedback from primary care providers, in the form of a short five-minute online survey, to guide the potential roll out of proposed changes to self-collection cervical screening.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is seeking GP participation in their funded randomised controlled trial. The trial aims to implement the RACGP and ACRRM endorsed and NHMRC approved ‘Clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of work-related mental health conditions in general practice’

Mission Australia recently released their Young Voices of the Pandemic – Youth Survey COVID Report 2020.