No 0820: June 19, 2008
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Editorial Keeping up!!
Aged Care Aged Care GP Panels Initiative Discontinued
Professional Development CPD events
HMR Skin
conditions in older persons
Information
Management includes Medical Director tips
and New on the Web
Items of interest GP
Network News, BECC waiting times
News for Practice
Staff Practice Managers’
Network Meeting, Recognising and rewarding nurses, ADGP Nursing News June 2008, RCNA General Practice Nurse Conference
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It’s all happening!! Changes are coming thick and fast and you need to keep up and know what is on offer.
1. Secure messaging - sending and receiving encrypted email between health providers. The division has brokered a cheap deal with Argus Connect to do this. This deal will be revealed at the CPD event on June 25.
2. Using SMS for recalls and reminders – secure and non-secure SMS – you will be able to get a FREE subscription for one month to try it out. This offer will be available for those who attend the CPD event on June 25.
3. Working with “at risk” diabetes patients – both state and federal governments are encouraging preventative care strategies, particularly with diabetes (including a new MBS item number in July this year). The necessary resource materials will be explained and handed out at the CPD event on June 25.
The June 25 session is a practice managers’ network meeting but considering the importance of the information to be disseminated GPs and nurses are welcome to attend. [Application Form]
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As part of the Federal Budget for
2008-09, the Commonwealth Government Department of Health and Ageing has
advised that the Aged Care GP Panels Initiative will not be funded beyond 30
June 2008. It will be replaced by the Aged
Care Access Initiative to be implemented from 1 July 2008, but will have
reduced funding compared to the GP Panels Initiative.
We are concerned at the lesser
amount of money being allocated to the new program, the suddenness of this
decision, the lack of transition arrangements and the paucity of detail about
the new program. Broadly, it will comprise incentive payments to GPs for
service provision to be administered by Medicare
The NEVDGP’s
Aged Care team has been particularly successful in terms of engagement,
relationship building, resource development, advocacy
and in special projects such as the Transfer-to-Hospital Envelope and Austin
Fast Track X-ray service. We will
continue to:
·
recognise that
older people, including those in residential aged care, are an important part
of the community
·
look for
ways to consolidate and make sustainable key relationships, such as those with
the Directors of Nursing within the Division
·
work
with our key hospitals (Austin Health,
·
represent
GPs on two key national forums, the Aged Care Task Force and the National Aged
Care Alliance
·
look for new
funding opportunities for aged care.
For further information ring Ms
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An invitation to GPs and Practice Nurses. The
National Asthma Council Australia together with
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 24 - Common Hand Problems - Dr Natasha van Zyl
For full term Tuesday lecture program click here
This is the final lecture for this term.
Department
of General Medicine – Medical Unit 5: “Diabetes and Heart Disease: Do Some
Diabetic Medications Kill People?” Speakers: Dr Mary Pan, Med 5 Registrar, & Assoc. Prof Richard C. O’Brien, Clinical
Dean, Department of Endocrinology
Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:10pm at John Lindell
Lecture Theatre, Level 4,
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Dermatitis, skin
growths, BCC, SCC, and older people. Speaker: Dr Boon Tan,
For medical practitioners, practice
nurses and pharmacists. 4 category 2 CPD points, 2 CPE points
(pharmacists).
Wednesday 2 July: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Light meal & registration from 6.30pm at
NDGP Training Room
Further information about Medication
Reviews contact Dr Jenny Gowan on 9426 7689 or Mob
0417 506 944
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Sometimes recalls are left in the system which have never been acted on, are years old and no longer valid. You can get rid of these by choosing a date range of between 8 and 4 years ago, have the GPs check the printed list and then remove the recalls once you are happy that it is safe to do so.
No patient record open:
· MD2 - Search >Recalls
· MD3 – Search >Recall…
1. Under “Select Interval” choose “Other”. Type in the date range, for example: 01/01/2000 to 01/01/2004.
2. Print the list and get GPs to check.
3. If you don’t need to save any of the recalls go back to list and press the Save button. You will be prompted to Update, Remove or Cancel.
4. Click on Remove to remove all the old recalls.
The next search could be for recalls from 4 to 2 years ago. For more recent “old” recalls you may wish to delete the invalid recalls one by one on the screen – highlight recall and press Delete on the keyboard.
Question: How do I record “infected hand” in the progress notes?
Answer: There is no “infected hand” or “hand – infection” in the coded list. One way round this is to type “Wound” in the coded list and select “Wound infection”, uncheck “Save in PMH” and click OK. Once this has been added as “reason for contact” you can add “- right hand”.
1. Two new MD templates
· The Royal Women's Hospital - request for pregnancy care
· The Royal Women's Hospital - Women’s Health/Gynaecology Care
Found under IM Resources – MD templates – Hospital referrals
2. AGPN Nurses News – June 2008 - found under Nurses Resources - AGPN
3. Instructions for filling out PEN template – revised to includec changes to PEN First template - gathering diabetes “at risk” patients and patients on 5+ medications – found under Information Management – PEN.
4. NEVDGP Hard Copy Newsletter June 2008 – found on Home Page – Latest News.
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This edition contains AMA Calls For Transparency in Primary Health Care Reform, General Practice Week: 15-21 June, Reminder – Residential Aged Care Facilities Survey Ends 20 June, Queen’s Birthday Honours, The Balint Society – Helping Doctors. Full version.
Waiting times for new referrals to Bundoora Extended Care Centre Inpatient Admissions are currently Gem > 7 days, Rehab > 5 days. For further information or assistance please contact Access BECC on 9495 3109.
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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,
Nominations are now open for the 2008 Australian
Practice Nurses Association (APNA) Best Practice Awards. The Awards aim to
recognise and reward extraordinary nurses working in
the general practice setting. Six awards are on offer in 2008. The prize
money, ranging between $1000.00 and $5000.00, is to be put to use furthering
the winning nurse’s professional development. Previous recipients of the awards
have chosen to undertake work experience and education both locally and in
international locations.
The categories open for
nomination are in the area of: Immunisation, Chronic Disease Management, Innovation and
Commitment to Nursing in General Practice, Quality Improvement, Women’s Health
and Wound Management. For details on how nurses can nominate themselves
or how a GP and practice manager can nominate their own practice nurse, go to
the APNA website at www.apna.asn.au or call 9614 777. Nominations
close 5:00pm Thursday 16th October, 2008
This includes National Nurse Refresher, Program and National skills, Based Orientation Program for nurses new to general practice, Development and delivery of an e-learning training package to support Medicare Item 10997, 2008 NiGP Needs Assessment, Stories from the Frontline RCNA, General Practice Nurse Conference, Graduate Certificate in Nursing, (General Practice) First Graduation, Domestic Violence Referral, Points Project Update, National Resource Library Other News: Graduate Certificate in Nursing (General Practice) – University of Queensland, Lifescripts, ADEA – Insulin Initiation in People with Type 2 Diabetes. Full version
Stories
from the Frontline The 2008 RCNA
General Practice Nurse Conference will be held from the 25-27th
November at the Novotel Pacific Bay Resort in
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A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Don't dig up
that garden. That's where the bodies are buried.
Go ahead and
plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.
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