No 1006: March 4, 2010
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Aged Care ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly
Chronic
Disease Management Getting Started - Type 2 Diabetes
Program, Having a healthy baby - Diabetes and pregnancy information session
Professional Development CPD events
HMR Latest
Asthma Foundation Posters, Codeine May Day approaches
Immunisation Childhood Immunisation Awards 2010, HPV vaccinations
Information
Management Medical Director Tips
Items of
interest PapScreen
Men’s Health Men’s
Health Resources
News for
Practice Staff PapScreen
scholarship opportunities, Legal Issues for Practice Managers, Setting up
Specialist Clinics, RCNA Complimentary Membership
Women’s Health Common Gynaecological Conditions & Emergencies, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
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ASPREE is an investigator initiated, internationally funded study being
conducted in general practices throughout
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Diabetes
This information session is for women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who are planning a pregnancy. Expert speakers include an obstetritian and endocrinologist from the Diabetes Clinic at the Royal Women’s Hospital. They will address such issues as pre-pregnancy planning and the use of insulin pumps during pregnancy. Tuesday 16 March 7-9.30pm. Ground Floor Conference Room A, Royal Women’s Hospital, Grattan Street Parkville. Cost: Free for DAV members and one guest. $15 for non members. Bookings are essential 1300 136 588
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Tuesday 16th March 6.30pm – 9.30pm (dinner from 6pm) For GPs, practice staff and practice nurses. As part of RACGP QA&CPD Program, GPs have until the end of this year to complete an accredited CPR course. This course meets the requirements for CPR training and has 5 Category 2 RACGP points attached. Flyer.
Meetings are held each Tuesday starting at 12.30 in the
Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,
March 9 - Common Gynaecological Conditions & Emergencies - Dr Paddy Moore
For full term Tuesday lecture program click here
”Antarctic Medicine
– what an experience!” presented by A/Prof David Taylor, Director of Emergency
and General Medicine Research
Wednesday 10th March 12:30pm John Lindell
Lecture Theatre, Level 4,
The John Colvin
Saturday morning lecture series season has commenced for 2010. The lectures on Ophthalmology, ENT and
Dermatology run on Saturday mornings from 8.30am in the Lucy Jones Hall, Royal
Victorian Eye and
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GPs and pharmacists may obtain copies of the Latest Asthma Foundation Emergency protocol posters on request. There are also new brochures available on a variety of conditions including:
· Asthma and Aged Care Facility Residents
· Asthma in Seniors
· Asthma: take control; great tips for teenagers
· Being active with asthma
·
Asthma in the under 5s
To order your Free Asthma Information Pack please contact the Asthma
Foundation of Victoria's HelpLine on 1800
645 130, email advice@asthma.org.au or visit www.asthma.org.au
All pharmacists are trained to assist consumers in the correct administration of asthma devices. A great opportunity for an HMR (Item 903 request), plus an asthma management plan, or GP Management plan, to check what is actually going on in the home with their devices. For further information about HMRs and asthma contact Jenny Gowan HMR facilitator Ph 9416 7689; jenny.gowan@ndgp.org.au
All community
pharmacists will be aware that tighter controls on the sale of analgesic
products containing codeine will apply across
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General
practices considering entering this year’s GSK Childhood Immunisation Awards
2010 can now register their interest. In 2010 there are four awards of $15,000
each. Any general practice that can demonstrate innovation in improving
coverage and delivery of childhood immunisation in
Registration
of interest should be made through the Awards Secretariat on 02 9286 1251 or gskchildhood@hillandknowlton.com.au.
Time is now running out
to receive payments for HPV vaccinations notified to the HPV Vaccination
Register. To ensure
you receive notification payments for outstanding vaccination data ($6 per dose
notified), notifications must be received by 31st March
2010. If you would like assistance with how to submit your notifications,
or wish to check if the Register has already received your notifications,
please call on 1800 478 734 (1800 HPV REG).
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Due to a glitch (bug?) in LetterWriter, the top, bottom, left and right margins are altered after you have downloaded and then installed a template. Also, a template which should be Landscape displays as Portrait after the installation.
To remedy this you need to go to the File menu, select Page Setup and change the margin settings – most likely set the 4 of them to 20mm. If necessary change the orientation to Landscape. Once complete, save your work – Control + S.
Question: I just want to print a medication list for a patient that includes the reason for the medication, like it does in a referral. The medications list under the Summary menu does not do this.
Answer: You need to create your own User defined template that includes a heading, the date, the patient demographics and the medication list.
1. Open LetterWriter and from the File menu select Modify Template…
2. Select Blank Template. Type in a heading Patient Medication List and press Enter twice.
3. Type in the heading: Date: press the spacebar once and from the Data Toolbar click on the + sign next to Miscellaneous and double click on Date. Press Enter twice.
4. Type in the subheading: Patient Details and press Enter once.
5. From the Data Toolbar click on the + sign next to Patient Demographics and then double click on Full Details – this inserts the <<Patient Demographics:Full Details>> field. Press Enter twice.
6. Type in the heading: Medication List and press Enter once.
7. Click on the + sign next to Clinical Details and double click on Medication List.
8. Once complete you can now format the document (bold, font size).
9. From the File menu select Save as Template… and call it Patient Medication List and click on Save.
10. It should now look more or less like this:
Patient Medication List Date: <<Miscellaneous:Date>> Patient Details: <<Patient Demographics:Full Details>> Medication List <<Clinical Details:Medication List>> |
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Community
Development Grants – up to $1000 + GST
• Successful applicants must plan,
implement and evaluate a cervical cancer prevention project that targets marginalised women in their community.
• Application deadline Wednesday 31st
March 2010
Nurse
scholarships – up to $1000 (incl GST)
• Successful applicants are required to
commence an accredited RCNA Pap test Provider Training Course in 2010.
• Application deadline Wednesday 31st
March 2010
Visit www.papscreen.org.au for guidelines and
to complete an application online.
For enquiries
please contact
A professional service conducted by a Division 1 RN performing MBS Primary Care Items for doctors local to the NEVDGP. Call Glenda at HEALTHPOWER on 0448 681 048 or email glendac@pbhealth.com.au for further information.
Presented by Rural Alliance in Nuclear Scintigraphy
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th November, 2010 at
Stamford Grand, North Ryde (Adjacent to Macquarie University, Sydney). For
further information and registration contact: The Secretary, RAINS,
This week’s edition includes:
Medical board responds to AMA call for recognition of VR GPs as ‘specialist
GPs’, General practice pharmacies – a positive health reform for patients,
AMACGP meets in
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Andrology
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See under Items of Interest
Wednesday
17th March, 6:30pm – 9.00pm (Dinner Provided) at John Scott Meeting
House, La
Small group learning for Practice Nurses on Tuesday 23rd March, 7- 8.30pm (dinner from 6.30pm) at NEVDGP Board room, 1st Floor, Pathology Building, Austin Health, Repatriation Hospital (Map). See flyer for registration. Tel: 9496 4333
RCNA will offer complimentary
membership to all first and second year undergraduate degree nursing students
and first year diploma nursing students in all approved nursing education
institutions in
For further information - www.rcna.org.au.
Free call 1800 061 660.
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See under
CPD Tuesday lecture
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Program is a new program that aims to
improve the health and wellbeing of mothers and babies. The Program can provide
support to GPs who have concerns that their patients require more support than
the usual system can provide. The program does not provide clinical antenatal
care, rather the focus is to support women who are pregnant, not manage the
pregnancy.
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Program is delivered through local community health services and referrals may be made using the Victorian Statewide Referral Form available on the NEV website. For more information click here.
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Please
note: only new ads or resubmitted ads will be posted here. All other ads can be
found on the website
Doctors
Montmorency - GP needed to join 10 doctor busy family practice. Accredited, fully computerised, purpose built clinic. Supported by Div 1 nurses, pathology on site. Flexible hours. No AH or on-call, excellent remuneration and support. Call Kay on 03 9435 1144 or Email: srmc@netspace.net.au
Northland Shopping Centre - VR GP's required to work in this GP owned and operated modern medical centre. Opening March 2010, a friendly and supportive team environment will be created in this fully modern and computerised medical centre with allied health, pathology and radiology also to be on site. Excellent remuneration and 3 month minimum payments guarantee offered! Significant incentives also offered to clinics or GP's in the immediate area who relocate to the centre. Please forward your resume and contact details to rod@northlandmed.com.au
Practice
Staff
North East/Lower Plenty region - Medical receptionist/secretary seeking permanent role 24-38 hours per week Mon-Fri (daytime). available for Immediate start. Phone Daphne on 9434 1109.
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If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
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And remember…
… It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.