How can we help you today?
New telehealth MBS item numbers 405
On 26 April 2021, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care, announced Medicare’s temporary COVID-19 telehealth services will be extended, for eligible health practitioners until 31 December 2021.
19/07/2021 - 11:07
Digital Capability Officer
The Digital Capability Officer will work closely with the Data Analyst to assess the digital maturity of primary care providers and provide online and face-to-face support to improve provider uptake and use of state and national digital health initiatives. <br/><br/>The role can be located in NQPHN's Cairns, Townsville, or Mackay office.
15/07/2021 - 13:51
NQ Health Priorities Lead
The NQ Health Priorities Lead has overarching responsibility for leading a portfolio of sector engagement, relationship management, capacity building, and commissioning activities to better align services to meet priority health needs identified in our Health Needs Assessment. <br/><br/>The role can be located in NQPHN's Cairns, Townsville, or Mackay office.
15/07/2021 - 13:40
Informative and culturally safe Cultural Awareness Training delivered across the NQPHN region
Over the past few months, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) has held informative, interactive, and culturally safe Cultural Awareness workshops across the region.
13/07/2021 - 14:31
Supporting teams caring for T1D ECHO network re-start
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.
13/07/2021 - 10:09
New resource for GPs supporting women with postnatal depression
Leading perinatal depression experts have developed a new resource to support GPs in the assessment and treatment of women with postnatal depression.
12/07/2021 - 14:29
CHAT-GP study
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.
06/07/2021 - 16:14
New Brief Interventions for a Healthy Lifestyle eLearning suite
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.
06/07/2021 - 9:41
Resources to support prescribers around upcoming scheduling changes for nicotine vaping products
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.
05/07/2021 - 13:55
Heart Health Information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
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.
05/07/2021 - 9:55