No 0839: November 13, 2008
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Aged Care Postgraduate Studies in Ageing
Chronic
Disease Management Telephone Interpreting service for CALD communities
Professional Development CPD events
HMR Increase
in HMR Item 900
Immunisation Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
Information
Management includes General Computer Tip, Medical
Director Tips and New on the Web
Items of interest New
Medicare items related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, GP
Network News, BECC waiting times
Mental Health Our words and their music: a Balint perspective for clinicians, Cross-Cultural Mental
Health Care in General Practice
News for
Practice Staff Final end of year
sessions for Practice Nurses and Practice Managers, New Medicare items related
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients
NPS Last
audit open for enrolment, Now visiting on type 2
diabetes
Paediatrics New GP Consultants at the Royal Children’s Hospital
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For
enquires please contact Ms Jane Schleiger,
Postgraduate Administrative Officer, AIPC on 03 9479
5828 email: j.schleiger@latrobe.edu.au
or visit LaTrobe University.
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Diabetes
This service is FREE and easy to use.
Please refer to direct telephone numbers below:
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Arabic 9321 5428
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Chinese 9321 5429
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Greek 9321 5430
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Italian 9321 5431
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Turkish 9321 5432
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Vietnamese 9321 5433
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Other CALD languages 9321 5438
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Meetings are held each Tuesday starting at 12.30 in the
Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,
November 18 - Management of Fractures in General Practice - Mr Cameron Norsworthy
For full term Tuesday lecture program click here
Sunday 23 November 2008 - The RACGP New Fellows Committee is conducting a family-friendly education seminar at the Royal Melbourne Zoo to assist new Fellows who are starting out in general practice. This seminar will provide information from practice owners, financial experts, insurance experts, GP supervisors and other new Fellows. It will also draw on the RACGP Employment Kit. Bring your family for an afternoon of socialising and interactive education. For more information contact Victoria Faculty Events on 03 8699 0563 or email vic.events@racgp.org.au. Click here for flyer and registration.
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Please note a small increase in HMR Item 900 (HMR/DMMR) remuneration for GPs. For a copy of the key concise document click here.
Or contact Jenny Gowan PhD, HMR Facilitator on 8480 4600
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All GPs in
· List varicella-zoster virus infection (chickenpox and herpes zoster) as a Group B notifiable disease.
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Add the collection of country of birth and if
born overseas, year of arrival in
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Amend the school exclusion table (schedule 6)
for Influenza contacts to read “Not excluded unless considered necessary by the
Secretary”.
The amendments will assist in the effective evaluation of the varicella vaccination program, result in the ability to
better identify the health needs of new arrivals in
It is also clearly details for GPs their obligations in notifying cases of infectious diseases within
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The Links bar is located next to the Address bar in Internet Explorer, and is a convenient place to add links to a few Web pages that you use frequently. Much better than using Favourites. Just click the link to display the page.
You
can add a page to the Links bar in a variety of ways:
Drag the icon for the page from your Address bar to your Links bar.
Drag a link from a Web page to your Links bar.
Drag a link to the Links folder in your Favorites list.
Note:
1. If the Links bar does not appear on the toolbar, on the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Links.
2. You also can organize your links by dragging them to a different location on the Links bar.
3. You can rename a link by right clicking on the “link” and select Rename. Deleting a link uses the same method.
The Summaries menu in a patient file provide many quick and useful summaries, ranging from Limited history to Complete Record. When you select a Summary it opens in LetterWriter and when you close it, it takes you back to the patient record. You are able to modify these Summaries:
1. Open LetterWriter and from the File menu select Modify template
2. Click on the Summaries tab and select the template you wish to change
3. Once the changes are complete form the File menu select Save.
When you later go back into the Summaries from the patient record these changes will be there.
Question: The doctors are typing the immunisation names themselves instead of choosing from the drop down list. The result is a mess. How do I fix it?
Answer: In MD3 open HCN Maintenance and under Database Tasks select Medical Director. Click on Merge Search Lists and then the Immunisation List tab. Select the “bad” immunisations on the left panel and then click on the correct immunisation spelling in the right panel and then click on Change.
In MD2 it is similar. Maintenance > Data Management > Merge Search Lists.
1. NEVDGP 2008 Annual report - found under About Us/Contact Us
2. Increase in HMR Item 900 – found under Program support/ HMR
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Introduced from 1 November 2008, these new items will allow people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who have had a health assessment to access Medicare benefits for follow-up services provided for and on behalf of GPs by practice nurses and registered Aboriginal Health Workers (item 10987), and by eligible Allied Health Professionals on referral from a GP (items 81300 – 81360).
The new items include:
Item 10987
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Follow-up services provided by a practice nurse
for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patients. Please note that Aboriginal
Health Workers in
· 5 services per patient per calendar year
· $22.20 Medicare rebate per service
· Patient has received a Health Check (eg Item 704, 706, 708 or 710)
Items 81300 – 81360
· Follow-up Allied Health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
· 5 services per patient per calendar year
· $48.95 Medicare rebate per service
· Patient has received a Health Check (eg Item 704, 706, 708 or 710)
· Referral from a GP is required (using the attached referral form)
· Each session is individual and at least 20 minutes duration
· These items are in addition to EPC Allied Health services (items 10950 – 10970)
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Allied Health Professional must be registered
with Medicare
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For the purposes of this item, Aboriginal
Health Workers in
More information and resources can be found at www.health.gov.au/epc.
The latest edition can be found here.
Waiting times for new referrals to Bundoora Extended Care Centre Inpatient Admissions are currently approximately Gem 1-3 days Rehab 1-3 days as of 12/11/08. Any queries regarding our waiting times please contact Access BECC on 9495 3109
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The Balint Society of
A distance education unit of study offered by The NSW
Institute of Psychiatry & NSW Transcultural
Mental Health Centre. Scholarships are available for GPs practising anywhere in
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Tuesday
November 18, 6.30 – 9pm (dinner
provided) - Work/Life Balance – Looking after yourself. This workshop will
include ideas on how to rejuvenate and help you to consider the importance of
your own health and well-being. Guest speaker: Del Lovett, RN, Practice Nurse
Leader. At
Thursday
4th December 6.30-9pm (dinner provided) - “Celebrating
Success" & "Comedy from the bedside". At
John Scott Meeting House,
See under Items of Interest
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The last NPS/QUM clinical audit available for the QPI year: 1 May 2008 - 30 April 2009 titled ‘Optimising management of type-2 diabetes’ is now open for enrolment. You can enrol online on the NPS website or you may download an audit form here. Audit enrolment closes on Friday January 9th 2009. Note: 1/ this is an electronic audit only & 2/ completed audits must be received by the NPS by 30th April 2009 for the current QPI Cycle.
The ‘Early use of insulin & oral antidiabetic drugs’ in type 2 diabetes’ program provides an opportunity to discuss up-to-date, independent, evidence-based information on insulin initiation, particularly in combination with oral therapy; strategies to overcome patient barriers to insulin use; the importance of continued lifestyle interventions in slowing or preventing disease and looks at recent glitazone safety updates.
Benefits include: 1/ a personal update with an NPS Facilitator at a time/place convenient to you - practice visit approx 30 - 40 minutes duration. 2/ a small group interactive case study discussion with your peers: case study meeting approx 50 - 60 minute duration (min of 3 GPs) & 3/ RACGP QA & CPD category 2 points (total 2 points) & QPI PIP credit
To order visits contact Dr
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Welcome Dr Jennifer Anderson, GP Consultant (Primary Care Liaison) and Dr Alexis Butler, GP Consultant (GP Education) to Kids Connect, the Royal Children’s Hospital Primary Care Liaison program. Jennifer’s role is to ensure the GP perspective is a part of relevant RCH activities and planning; Alexis is setting up a GP education and up-skilling program for paediatrics – both alongside Susan Jury. See Kids Connect (GP Liaison): www.rch.org.au/kidsconnect / Tel: 9345 4645.
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note: only new ads, paid ads or resubmitted ads will be posted here. All other
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If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be
worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.
BUT, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer/wine one year ago, drank it all and then turned in the cans/bottles for the recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00.
Need I say more?
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And remember……
….. it
may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a bad example.