No 0819: June 12th, 2008
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Chronic
Disease Management National Diabetes Week
Resources, Refering patients to a Life! course
Professional Development CPD events
Information
Management includes Medical Director tips
and New on the Web
Items of
interest Stepping
Stones Psychology, Health Privacy, GP Network News
News for
Practice Staff Practice Managers’
Network Meeting, The Essentials Involved in the Asthma Cycle of Care
Paediatrics Updated parent info factsheets,
Referrals to the RCH, Referrals for routine
circumcision
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Diabetes
(under Latest News & Research) or call 1300 136 588.
Life! is a six session lifestyle
modification course that has been shown to reduce the risk of diabetes by 58%
in participants. To help your patient prevent diabetes, follow these 3 steps:
1. Assess - Encourage your patient to
complete the Diabetes Risk Test (DRT) which can be accessed at www.diabeteslife.org.au or order
copies by calling 9667 1756.
2. Test - If your patient scores above seven on the diabetes
risk test, exclude type 2 diabetes, through a fasting blood glucose or oral glucose
tolerance test (if not completed in the past 12 months). Recalculate your
patient’s risk test score with results from the blood test (question seven).
3. Refer - Refer your patient to the
Life! course if they:
Further information on course content
and referral forms can be found under ‘Life Courses’ at www.diabeteslife.org.au. Fax the
referral form to one of the following local Life! providers:
Debra Thorpe, Banyule Community Health Service,
For further information about the Life!
Program, please contact Angie Deegan on 9341 5247
or a.deegan@gpv.org.au
Please note: As per Department of Human Services requirements, participants are
required to make a $50 co-payment towards the course fee. However, this fee
will be waived for people with health care cards, pensioners, or on low to
medium incomes as determined by the Health and Community Care (HACC) criteria.
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An invitation to GPs and Practice Nurses. The
National Asthma Council Australia together with North East Valley invites you
to participate in this workshop, to be held on Thursday 26th
June, 6:30 pm to 9:00pm at John Scott Meeting House, Latrobe University. Presenters: Dr
Tom Foo, General Practitioner and Ms Del Lovett, Asthma Educator. This workshop
will provide education and training specifically around evidence–based best
practice asthma management. Each participant will receive resources covering
the following topics: Adult Asthma, including the elderly, Device use, Asthma
and COAPD, Paediatric asthma. Further information and registration click here,
or contact
Meetings are held each Tuesday starting at 12.30 in the
Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,
June 17 – Current Status of Anti-Inflammatory Medications - Dr Lionel Schachma
For full term Tuesday lecture program click here
Department
of Nephrology - “Prevention of Contrast Induced Nephropathy” Speakers: Dr
Darren Lee, Renal Registrar, & Dr Peter Mount, Consultant, Department of
Nephrology
Wednesday
18 June, 2008 12:10pm at John Lindell Lecture Theatre, Level 4,
Tuesday June 24 - Dr Eccelstein - Cardiac
Tuesday July 29 - Professor Anne Buist - General Psychiatric Day program and Mother Baby Day Program, Dealing with Manipulative Patients in General Practice
Tuesday August 26 - Mr Mark Baldwin - Skin Cancer and Plastic Surgery – Early Recognition, Biopsy and Pathology
Tuesday October 28 - Speaker TBC - Paediatric Surgery
Tuesday November 25 - Speaker TBC - Mental Health in Young Adults
Each session will be held at Rydges,
Contact: Jo Robertson,
Business Development, Healthscope Psychiatry
In eNews No 0817 (2 week’s ago) the hint was for a search for female patients 18-26 not having a Gardasil injection. Although I tested this and it worked on my very small database, I have been reliably informed (by 4 people) that it doesn’t work. You will be able to use the PEN Clinical Audit Tool to do this with a new release later in the year, when it has an immunisation tab. My apologies if I have wasted your time.
In MD3 there is a system called HCN Messenger which allows instant text-based communication between any practitioner or other users on the network such as nurses and practice staff. This is set up via HCN Maintenance:
· Locate and double-click on the HCN Maintenance icon from your desktop.
· Select the Database Tasks Common menu item.
· Double-click on HCN Messenger.
· Enter your Username and Password.
· The HCN Messenger activates and an icon appears on the task bar.
You can now send messages between different users on the network.
Question: I am a nurse and got halfway through a health assessment and ran out of time to complete it. How do I get back to it?
Answer: Do not open LetterWriter! Click on the Letters icon in the patient record (between Results and Old scripts).
This will show the patient’s documents (assessments, care plans, referrals, recalls etc) in chronological order. Double click on your name (not the document name) and this will open the document in LetterWriter. Now simply continue with the assessment, remembering to save and print at the end. When the GP needs to review the assessment s(he) goes through the same process as above. Once complete the GP will be prompted to overwrite the file or save it with a different name. S(he) should give it a different name, leaving your version intact and so keep an audit trail of the work done on the assessment.
1. Emergency Triage Education Kit - produced by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Found under Practice Support – Practice Managers’ Resources.
2. Practice Managers’ Network Meeting Wednesday June 25. Introducing Argus Secure messaging, working with diabetes “at risk” patients and SMS for recalls/reminders. Interested GPs and nurses welcome. Found under Calendar of Events.
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A new psychological service providing high quality support
for children, adolescents, and families for a range of psychological issues.
Please call us to discuss taking the first steps towards a brighter future. Dr
Emma Little: 0400 570 865 at “Envitalize”
Also on offer: Specialist consultation to preschools, childcare centres and schools to assist in the development of comprehensive programs or management plans; Supervision for APS college membership or professional development to psychologists and provisional psychologists: Workshops and Seminars - Individualised information and training sessions provided for schools, parent and community groups.
5 new information sheets available from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner on Health Privacy. These sheets are intended to assist private sector health service providers in fulfilling a range of obligations under the Privacy Act 1988(Cth) relating to use, disclosure and individual access to health information. See the website http://www.privacy.gov.au/publications/index.html#I
This edition contains GP Super Clinics, Aged Care, GP Re-elected as AMA Treasurer, GP Honoured at National Conference, Snapshot of Australian Primary Health Care Research, General Practice Week Activities Full version.
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Wednesday
25th June 7-9pm (registration and dinner from 6.30) at John Scott
Meeting House, La Trobe University. (Map)
Topics include Argus Secure Electronic Clinical Messaging, Working with
Diabetes ‘at risk’ patients and Using SMS for Recalls/Reminders. Presenters:
Gary Tucek, Angie Deegan,
An invitation to Practice Nurses – see under CPD
Acne / Constipation / Fever / Haemangiomas / Hives / Insect bites and stings
/ Itcycosis / Mastocytosis / Medicines for children / Molluscum / Plagiocephaly
/ Rheumatology conditions / Scabies / Thalassaemia / Undescended testes / Warts
… These and more great factsheets for parents have just been updated on Kids
Health Info.
Remember to add this website to ‘My
Favourites’: www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo
Referrals to the Royal Children’s Hospital
Typed referrals are easier for triage
staff to read, especially after faxing. RCH accepts referrals on your own,
the VSRF (Victorian State-wide Referral Form) or RCH templates. The RCH and
VSRF referral templates can be downloaded to your desktop software or can be
saved as a word document. Choosing a clinic is optional,
RCH triage staff choose the best clinic with the shortest
waiting list. See Kids Connect online www.rch.org.au/kidsconnect >
Outpatients. Parents tel (03) 9345 6180 to enquire about a referral, to cancel
or reschedule an appointment. Cancelling or rescheduling appointments
helps us improve outpatients access by making valuable
appointments available to others.
Referrals for routine circumcision
In accordance with DHS policy, the RCH does not accept referrals
for routine male circumcision. Referrals need to be made to an
appropriate private surgeon. For more information: See the Victorian Government
website www.health.vic.gov.au or call Information Victoria, tel 1300 366 356. To
find a private general paediatric surgeon: Kids Connect online www.rch.org.au/kidsconnect see
> "Find a paediatrician".
Please
note: only new ads, paid ads or resubmitted ads will be posted here. All other
ads can be found on the website
Doctors
Ivanhoe
Medical Clinic - sessions for PT VR GP. Modern, large group with
supportive colleagues and full time nurses, computerised, CDMs, mixed billing,
flexible, friendly, no A/H, good remuneration. Contact
Dr.Stephen Smith or Dr.David Doig on 03 9499 1245.
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In one episode of 'Cheers', Cliff is seated at the bar describing the
Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm.
“Well you see, Norm, it's like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only
move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the
slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural
selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health
of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest
members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the
slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain
cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In
this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making
the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you
always feel smarter after a few beers.”
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