No 1021: June 24, 2010
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Chronic Disease Management Lifestyle Modification Program,
National Diabetes Week
Professional Development CPD
events
HMR PPIs - their place, long term effects and other GI issues
Immunisation Reminder
when giving Infanrix Hexa
and Varilrix vaccines from 10 dose packs
Information Management Medical Director Tips
Items of interest GP Network News
News for Practice Staff VHIA
Paid Parental Leave National Scheme
Paediatrics Sending a child to the Emergency Department?
Women’s Health Shared
Care for Breast Cancer at The Women’s, The Royal Melbourne and
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LMP Newsletter
This is a new newsletter to assist with information and where to find resources for the roll out of the LMP program – referral of the 40-49 year olds who are at risk of developing diabetes,
Key messages of the Newsletter are:
· Training session feedback
· Use the one form for referral process to both commonwealth and state Life programs
· Change of risk score to 12
· Additional division resources and assistance available
· Monthly prize for most referrals
The Newsletter can be found on our website and the LMP section of the website is here.
MBS claiming information for LMP
referral
Courtesy Sabrina Ostowari, General Practice QLD, a single page sheet explaining when to claim and when not to claim the relevant MBS item number for referral to an LMP.
Diabetes
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Meetings are held each Tuesday starting at 12.30 in the
Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,
There will be no lecture during school holidays. The first lecture for next term will be on July 13th.
Austin Health - Division
of Medicine Grand Round
“Tension
in the renal arteries” Presented by MED 3 - speakers: Paul Yeh
(registrar) & Linny Phuong (intern)
Wednesday 30th June, 12:30pm
at John Lindell Lecture Theatre, Level 4,
This program aims to enhance the surgical skills required for minor surgical procedures most likely to be carried out by GPs in rural or remote settings where specialists are not readily available. Saturday and Sunday, 14 & 15 August - Day One (9.00am – 4.00pm) Day Two (8.00am – 4.00pm) at RACS Skills & Education Centre, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Corner of Spring Street and Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. For more information and registration click here.
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Wednesday
7 July, 7pm-9pm (Dinner from 6.30pm) at John Scott Meeting House, La
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The Department of Health Immunisation Program has received several reports this week from immunisation providers who have missed reconstituting vaccines:
1. the Hib pellet in the Infanrix hexa vaccine and
2. the chickenpox pellet in the Varilrix vaccine
In these cases all infants who were given the vaccine from the 10 pack had to be recalled for re-administration of either Hiberix vaccine or Chickenpox vaccine. All the babies were recommended to have an additional Hib or chickenpox vaccine as it could not be determined which babies did indeed receive the reconstituted Hib and chickenpox pellets.
Infanrix hexa vaccine must be reconstituted by adding the entire contents of the syringe to the Hib vial and shaking until the pellet is completely dissolved.
Varilrix vaccine must be reconstituted by adding the entire contents of the syringe to the chickenpox vial and shaking until the pellet is completely dissolved.
The errors have occurred when a 10 dose vaccine packs of Infanrix hexa and Varilrix have been used. The pellets are located at one end of the packs and the syringes are at the other end of the pack.
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A streamlined authority automatically adds the authority number and a text description (e.g. Fosamax Tablet 40 Mg). Other prescribed items (such as Fosamax Weekly Tablet 70 Mg has a variety of text descriptions – in this case you need to click on the View List button in the Authority window. Double click on the appropriate Approval # and then click OK. This will place the text in the “Text to appear on new prescription” text area.
Question: Can you help? I recently wrote to one of our
Division practices requesting a summary or disc of his previous records.
Instead, they supplied him with a 65 page print out from MD3 which weighs a
ton, is never going to be read and makes transfer of data to our MD3 quite
difficult. We phoned them and asked politely if they would kindly export the
data in XML format onto a disk. They replied that it was not possible. Perhaps
you could do an article on exporting and importing showing how easy it is
compared with printing – this would assist all the division practices to enter
the modern age.
Answer: This has been done and can be found on our website
in the IM resources section – “How to” sheets. - http://www.nevdgp.org.au/?content=14#How_To_Sheets. I suggest you direct the practice to the 2 cheatsheets:
In summary:
Create a folder
to save the file and from MD3 HCN Maintenance > Common > Import/Export –
select Export > Clinical and when prompted, export in xml format. Save to
disk.
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This week’s edition includes: GPs call for individual
health identifier; AMA calls on Senate to pass National Preventative Health
Agency Bill to put spotlight on prevention; Tobacco excise legislation passed;
plain packaging for tobacco products next – AMA; Practice nurse funding
changes: AMA survey closing soon; AGPT
2010 training year fact sheet; Remote GP training – applications now open;
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The Paid
Parental Leave Bill recently passed by Federal Parliament has established a
national scheme that will commence in transitional form on 1 January 2011 and
be fully operational from 1 July 2011. Full article.
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Before sending to the RCH Emergency Department – please call first on 9345 7060
and tell the doctor:
As well as providing clinical advice, the ED staff may be able to help
with alternatives such as an OPD appointment or timing of investigations.
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The combined Royal Melbourne/Royal Women’s Breast Service and the Western Hospital Sunshine Breast Unit are trialling a shared care model between the hospitals’ breast units and GPs, for women with breast cancer, in the belief that patients are better served if their care after breast cancer treatment is shared between their GP and the Hospital.
After women have completed treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, both the woman and her GP will be provided with a summary of the pathology of the disease, a summary of treatment received and planned and a detailed follow-up plan. As this is a Pilot study, until this is routine practice you will be asked to sign and return a form indicating that you are happy to participate in this Shared Care Project when your patient consents to involvement.
MBS Item # 729 - Contribution to a Multidisciplinary Care Plan – would be appropriate for patient’s GP to apply for in these cases of shared care.
If you have any questions, for RMH/RWH patients please contact us at breast.service@thewomens.org.au, bruce.mann@mh.org.au or ines.rio@thewomens.org.au and for
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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
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The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by physicians
at
The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistant vice-neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass number of 312. These 312 particles are held together in the nucleus by meson-like particles called memos.
Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratum caused one reaction to take 4 days to complete when it would normally take 1 second.
Administratum has a normal half life of approximately 3 years, at which time it does not actively decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice-neutrons, and assistant vice-neutrons exchange places. Some studies have shown that the atomic mass number actually increases after reorganization.
Research at other laboratories indicates that Administratum occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to condense and concentrate at certain points such as governmental agencies and universities, and can usually be found in the newest, best-appointed, and best-maintained buildings.
Scientists point out that Administratum is known to be toxic at any level of concentration, and can easily destroy any productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how Administratum can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date are not promising.
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And remember…
…A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.