No 0817: May 29th, 2008
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Chronic
Disease Management Life! referral
forms available online, National Diabetes Week 2008 Campaign Resources
Professional Development CPD events
Immunisation GPII SIP Payment Removed, MIA Split, Division Immunisation Coverage falls below 90%, SMS Reminders for Gardasil
Information
Management includes Medical Director tips
and New on the Web
Items of
interest Better
patient care through high quality referrals, GP Tour of the New Royal Women’s
Hospital, GP Network News, BECC waiting times
Mental Health Small
group learning module
News for
Practice Staff Preventing
Osteoporosis and Reducing Fracture Risks - rescheduled
Women’s Health O & G Referrals, GP Interventions to Improve Childhood Outcomes
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Life! Taking Action on Diabetes is a six session diabetes prevention program for people aged 50 and over, at high risk of type 2 diabetes. Referral forms are available for the Life! program here. The form is available for Medical Director, Best Practice, Zed Med, GP Complete as well as Microsoft Word. Directions for upload into the medical software are listed on the website.
For further information on Life! visit the website www.diabeteslife.org.au or contact Angie Deegan on 9341 5247 or a.deegan@gpv.org.au.
Diabetes
The kit includes: Information sheets, poster, Diabetes data information, tape measures. To download your order form visit www.diabetesvic.org.au (under Latest News & Research) or call 1300 136 588.
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Wednesday 4 June 7:00pm - 9:00pm
(Dinner from 6.45pm) at John Scott Meeting House, La
Meetings are held each Tuesday starting at 12.30 in the
Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Pathology Building, Repatriation Hospital,
Austin Health, West Heidelberg. Lunch is provided. Course Leader: Dr Vin Nursey Phone: 9457 1736
June 3 - Substance Abuse in Children/Adolescents - Dr Ian Rawlinson
For full term Tuesday lecture program click here
Department
of General Medicine (Med Unit 3) - “One Man’s Aspirations”
Speakers:
Dr Gabriel Mak, Med 3 Registrar
& Dr Patrick Charles, Infectious Diseases Consultant & General Medicine
Consultant Physician
Wednesday
4 June, 2008 12:10pm at John Lindell Lecture Theatre, Level
4,
Opposite Medical Library - followed by lunch in Zeltner Hall at 1:00pm
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The GPII SIP payment of $18.50 per WPE (whole patient equivalent) has been removed from the incentives program in immunisation as per the recent Federal Budget. The effective date is 1 September 2008. The last valid service date is 30/9/08 and the last reporting date to ACIR is 31/12/2008
The Maternity Immunisation Allowance (MIA) will be split into 2 equal parts from 1/1/2009. The first payment between 18months and 2 years and the second payment between 4 yrs 3 mths and 5 years of age. Each payment is $118.35.
Division has just recorded its lowest ever coverage rate for a GPII quarter. The rate has dropped to 88.8%. All practices are encouraged to undertake a special effort to raise this coverage rate. Each practice will receive an ACIR 32A report in the next week that lists children due and overdue. Using this data and your ACIR20A data conduct an audit and undertake a catch-up program so that you not only ensure all children are up to date but also that you can claim the last of the SIP payments before they cease. Should you require any assistance with an audit, contact John Fletcher at the Division on 9496 4333 to arrange a mutually agreed date for a practice visit.
The cervical cancer website at: http://www.cervicalcancer.com.au/ provides a free SMS service to remind patients for their second and third Gardasil injections. Once on the site, click on the middle box on the left hand side that says “Free SMS/email reminders”. From there, patients (or clinic staff) can enter their details to receive reminders.
An ideal time to register patients is post-vaccination before patients leave the clinic. It is a free service for the clinic and the patient and will be very helpful for those clinics that do not have the facility with their software to send SMS reminders.
Further information c/- CSL Biotherapies: Nicci Green, Vaccine Account Representative (Part time – Tues. & Wed.) Mobile: 0447 533 790 Email: nicci.green@csl.com.au or Nadine Francis, Vaccine Account Representative (Part time – Wed, Thur, Fri) Mobile: 0422 000 308 Email: nadine.francis@csl.com.au
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1. Close any patient record.
2. Open the patient database search
• MD2 – Search >Databases
• MD3 – Search >Patient…
3. Enter the following search criteria in the following order:
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MD2 Aged between 18 and 26 Click in the NOT check box Currently taking drug: Gardasil |
MD3 Aged between 18 and 26 Currently taking drug: Gardasil Click in the NOT check box |
4. Click on Search.
5. You may now wish to print the list and/or mailmerge a reminder letter.
Question: Our practice has recently changed to MD3 and found that the address book is not working as well as before. If I want to find a person and I know their name, then I can easily find them from the main menu. However if I go into one of the drop down categories (e.g. psychiatrists) the entries are no longer listed alphabetically so I have to check every entry as I look for a particular name. Is there an easy way to fix this?
Answer: This is a known issue but there is an easy fix. Open your address book and choose your category (e.g. psychiatry). When the names appear they are not in alphabetical order. Click on the column heading (Name) and this will re-order the list in alphabetical order.
1. Article by Peter Eizenberg on Budget announcement GPII SIP payment will cease 1 October 2008. See under Immunisation – Latest Updates and News
2. Mental Health Small Group Learning – Information sheet under Mental Health – Latest News
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For further information, or to request a printed copy of our Referral
Guidelines, please contact: Juliet Gavens, GP Liaison
Unit Coordinator,
General Practitioners and their practice staff are invited to a 1 hour tour at 8am on Thursday 5th June. For further information and to RSVP please contact Dr Ines Rio on ines.rio@rwh.org.au by 30th May.
This edition contains General Practice Gets Shaved, Provision for GP MRI, Dr Rosanna Capolingua to Serve Second Year as Federal AMA President. Full version.
There are currently no waiting times for new referrals to Bundoora Extended Care Centre Inpatient Admissions. Any queries regarding our waiting times please contact Access BECC on 9495 3109
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Are you interested in mental health training with a small group of similarly interested GPs at a convenient venue, about topics you have chosen? To find out more click here.
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Dr Alex Eskander is an Obstetrician and
Gynaecologist who has commenced private practice at the
An overview of use of psycho social screening in the antenatal and postnatal
woman and breast feeding issues. Presenters: Dr Matthew Robson psychiatric
registrar, Kerri McEgan,Nurse
Unit Manager, Lactation and mercy@home
Tuesday 3rd June 2008 7pm to 9pm
(refreshments from 6.30pm) at Lecture Theatre, Level 4,
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