Over the past few months, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) has held informative, interactive, and culturally safe Cultural Awareness workshops across the region.

This National Diabetes Week, the Project ECHO team are excited to give you the ‘heads up’ they will be re-starting the ‘Supporting teams caring for T1D’ ECHO network, beginning this coming Monday, July 19th, and running fortnightly until Monday 22 November 2021, from noon until 1pm.

Leading perinatal depression experts have developed a new resource to support GPs in the assessment and treatment of women with postnatal depression.

GP practices are invited to participate in the CHAT-GP study. The CHAT-GP study is a partnership with the Heart Foundation and the RACGP designed to make it easier for GPs to assess CVD risk using an auto-populated risk calculator and patient decision aid.

Insight, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, and the Preventive Health Branch, Queensland Health, in partnership with Health and Wellbeing Queensland, are excited to launch a new suite of eLearning on how to conduct a range of brief interventions to encourage clients and patients to have healthier lifestyles.

From 1 October 2021 a prescription will be required for Australians to legally access nicotine e-cigarettes and nicotine vaping products for any purpose, including importing from overseas online retailers.

There has been a decline (61 per cent) in deaths from circulatory diseases between 1998 and 2018 for First Nations Peoples. However, heart disease is still a major contributor to the gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians.

Healthdirect Australia is pleased to announce the extension of the healthdirect Video Call Exemplar (Service Pilot) Program to 31 December 2021.

To assist health practitioners in the use of QScript, the QScript Learning Portal was launched on the 28 June 2021.