No 1039: November 11, 2010
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Editorial Chief
Health Officer Alert
Chronic Disease Management E-learning for health
professionals, Allied Health Professions Australia, Better Health Self Management Course
Professional Development CPD
events
HMR Podiatrists prescribing
Information Management Medical Director Tips
Items of interest Smoking cessation, Area Coordinator Training, Maurice
Blackburn newsletter, GP Network News
Men’s Health Is
there a role for testosterone therapy in men with type 2 diabetes?
News for Practice Staff Management
Options to Maximize Sleep, RCNA Newsletter
NPS NPS Audit Update
Women’s Health PapScreen launches campaign to inform CALD women about
Pap tests, Signs and Symptoms of Gynecological
Cancers
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Medicines Alert: Urgent recall of APO-PERINDOPRIL 2mg tablets. See full alert here.
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An online training program supporting Chronic Disease Self Management. Click here.
AHPA is the peak
body representing allied health in
This course will be running
at Banyule Community Health Service on an ongoing
basis. It runs over 6 weeks, sessions are 2.5 hours. It will benefit
individuals with a chronic condition, by promoting participants’ confidence,
skills and ability to manage their health on a day-to-day basis. It is based on
the concept of self management and is backed by extensive research (see http://patienteducation.stanford.edu
and www.crd.unimelb.edu.au/academic/selfmgt.html). Please note that participants
need to reside within Banyule. For further
information and referrals, please contact: Service Access Department 9450 2000.
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Thursday 18th November 7-9pm. For GPs, Practice Nurses and Managers.
Presented by: Ms Barbara Johnson and Dr Phyllis Lao from Department of General
Practice, University of Melbourne; Mr Reg Thorpe, Senior Policy
Officer, Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS) and Mr Peter Larter -
MBS Consultant. At John Scott Meeting House, La
Wednesday
1st December 6.30 -9.30pm (Dinner from 6.15pm)Update
your CPR skills in line with new ARC guidelines Target Group: GPs, Practice
staff and Practice nurses. Presented by: Mr David Bourke at John Scott Meeting
House, La
Meetings are held each Tuesday starting at 12.30 in the
Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,
Nov 16 - Retinopathies - Dr Saf Bassili
For full term Tuesday lecture program click here
NB: The Lecture Theatre used for
Tuesday’s GP Lectures is to be refurbished – so the lectures on 23 November and
30 November will be held in the room next door to the Lecture Theatre.
This room is call North Wing Room 1.
$40,000 Commonwealth Subsidy available to eligible GPs! Funded by the Australian Government, the program awards a select number of rural GPs with a $40,000 Commonwealth subsidy to undertake training in anaesthetics. Applications open for the Anaesthetics component of the General Practitioner Procedural Training Support Program (GPPTSP) on Wednesday, 10 November 2010. Applications close Tuesday, 7 December 2010. For more information, visit the GPPTSP page on the ACRRM website or email ACRRM at gpptsp@acrrm.org.au.
The Victorian Department of Health is offering scholarships to nursing, medical and allied health professionals to support post graduate studies in palliative care.
Postgraduate Scholarship guidelines
and application form and Palliative Care education Courses
for doctors
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The Podiatry Board of Australia may endorse the registration of suitably qualified podiatrists as qualified to administer, obtain, possess, prescribe, sell, supply or use Schedule 2, 3, 4 and 8 medicines for the treatment of podiatric conditions under sec 14(2) of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (2) available here.
A recent article published by Dr Jenny Gowan & Prof Louis Roller in the AJP October 2010 may be of interest to GPs and pharmacists regarding the regulation and the products that podiatrist with prescribing rights can prescribe (not PBS). Click here.
Further information about Medication issues from Jenny Gowan M 0417 506 944; or jenny@nevdg.org.au
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You should not leave the Family/Social histories sections blank when a patient has no known family/social history issues, as the next person who looks into the this section has no indication that the questions have been asked. A better way is to type in “No sig. Fx” or “NAD” but then importantly add the date of the patient interview/consultation. This makes it easier for everyone.
Question: Yesterday I had a patient ask if we could print her off a list of all the visits she has had for a trial drug injection. She has been attending the clinic for well over a year now, every month, and we give her this trial drug injection. She needed to attend her specialist and show him that she had been having these injections i.e. the dates she had had each of them.
We ended up printing her off a list of all her progress notes and then removing all the visits where she had not received the injection. Is there an easier way?
Answer: My feeling is you did it reasonably well, albeit time consuming. There is, however, a quicker way.
Open LetterWriter with a new letter on the screen (blank screen).
From the View menu select Data toolbar (or Control + D).
Click on the + sign next to Summary in the Data toolbar.
Double click on Progress Notes (selected).
Click on each relevant Progress Note by clicking in the box next to it. Then click OK.
Save and Print the document.
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A workshop function inviting GP’s to discuss pharmacotherapy and treatment of nicotine addiction as well as the barriers and challenges they face addressing unmotivated smokers.
Lemongrass Restaurant,
Tuesday
16th November 7-9pm (Dinner provided) RSVP Luke Virgo,
Pfizer
Free Area Coordinator Training for Heart Foundation Walking. Monday 22nd
November 10am - 2pm (Light Lunch provided) at Heart Foundation Level
A short informative bulletin in relation to
all aspects of personal injuries law that may be of interest to you and
your patients. Click here.
This week’s edition includes: Collaborative Care, Improved surveillance strategies needed to manage vaccine safety, Another round for RAMUS, AMA submission to Health Workforce Australia - Clinical Supervisor Support Program, Will the RACGP standards deter small practice or accreditation itself?, AMA working on Medicare Locals submission, NPS seeks GP nominees for its Medicines Line.
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It is commonly recognised that men with type 2 diabetes have lowered
testosterone levels. Most interventional trials of testosterone therapy in men
with type 2 diabetes show benefits in terms of weight, insulin resistance and glycemic control but are limited in terms of participant
numbers and study design. The Department of Medicine (
For more information contact Dr Emily Gianatti on (03) 9496 5198 or email: Emily.GIANATTI@austin.org.au.
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Between 2006 and 2008, 80% of GP encounters for sleep disorders in Australia were for insomnia & 95% of insomnia problems resulted in medication being prescribed (BEACH Report 2009). This session provides a valuable opportunity to discuss up-to-date, independent, practical, evidence-based information on current therapeutic issues with a trained NPS facilitator.
Tuesday 16th November 6.30pm for a 7:00
pm start, concluding at 8:30pm. Light refreshments will be provide, at North East Valley Board Room, level 1,
Welcome to the latest edition of eCommunity. From 1 November 2010 Nurse Practitioners and Midwives will be able to access the Medicare Benefits Schedule and provide Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines so as you would expect this new development is featured heavily.
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There 3
electronic NPS clinical audits available for the QPI PIP year 1 May 2010 to 30
April 2011. All NPS paper audits are now closed.
The electronic
audits that are available include: 1/ Clinical e-Audit: Review of Proton Pump
Inhibitor (PPI) Prescribing, 2/ Clinical e-Audit: Optimising
Management of Type 2 Diabetes & 3/ Clinical e-Audit: Management of
Hypertension. Please note that in response to GP feedback, the
Hypertension clinical e-audit now involves a review of only 10 patients.
The above-mentioned audits need to be completed within the audit specified time
frames for inclusion as QPI PIP activities in the current QPI PIP year.
Online
enrolment for the above audits is available on http://www.nps.org.au/health_professionals. You
will need to scroll down the page to locate information on audits.
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PapScreen
The campaign comprises translated radio and newspaper adverts in Chinese, Hindi, Vietnamese, Arabic, Turkish and Macedonian.
Victorian GPs speaking these languages have also been sent a translated poster for their waiting room. Please take this opportunity to display the posters and discuss Pap tests with women from these communities. Free resources about Pap tests in many languages are available to order from www.papscreen.org.au - again please take this opportunity to order some for your clinic!
The Royal
Women’s Hospital in conjunction with The Melbourne General Practice Network is
pleased to be holding a CPD session for GPs and other health professionals
covering when and how to screen for gynaecological
cancers, when to worry and what to do. Speaker: Dr Orla
McNally, Gynaecological Oncologist Director
Oncology/Dysplasia RWH.
Tuesday
23rd November 7.30 pm - 9.15 pm (Light refreshments 30 minutes prior) at The Royal
Women's Hospital, Seminar Room 7D, 7th Floor. Parking is available at the car park under the
hospital. RSVP: By 4 days prior to session to Ines Rio: on 8345 2064 or email: ines.rio@rwh.org.au. CPD points: 4 (Group
2) RACGP CPD points in Women's Health (applied 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
Diamond Creek (near Greensborough & Eltham) – VR GP full time or part time to join our Lovely established Family Practice, accredited since 2001, computerised & with mixed billing. 1 in 6 Saturdays. 8.30am – 12noon. No Sundays or Public holidays. Outer Metro Area (relocation Incentive grants available). Pay and conditions negotiable. Contact Sheila Bouskill on 03 9438 3888 or e-mail diamondvalleyclinic@netspace.net.au
Kensington
- Doutta Galla Community
Health Medical Practice is seeking enthusiastic, compassionate, dedicated GPs
on a full time or part time sessional basis. To find out more and obtain a
position description please contact the Practice Manager,
Northcote – F/t P/T VR GP or Subsequent Trainee GP position. Fully accredited, computerised, long established doctor owned practice in a new purpose built facility with a fabulous work environment. Ancillary Health, Pharmacy and Pathology services on site. Inquiries Diane Cronin (Practice Manager) 9481 1214. Visit our website www.doctorsofnorthcote.com
Northcote – Full time Locum GP required for the month of November 2010. Fully accredited, computerised, long established doctor owned practice in a new purpose built facility with a fabulous work environment. Ancillary Health , Pharmacy and Pathology services on site. Inquiries Diane Cronin (Practice Manager) 9481 1214. Visit our website www.doctorsofnorthcote.com
Bundoora Area - Practice Nurse Div 1, Grade 2, needed to join our busy family practice. Fully computerised, accreditated and friendly supportive team enviroment. Part time position available, 24 hours a week and holiday relief. Seeking self motivated nurse to join our nursing team. Knowledge of Chronic Disease Management, Care Plans, Childhood Immunisation, Wound Management and Triage. Please email your CV to Nurse Manager at janeta@andrewplaceclinic.com.au.
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Two Irishmen, Paddy & Mick, got a pilot to fly them to
They managed to bag six Moose. But, as they were loading the plane, the pilot said he could carry only four Moose.
The two lads objected strongly, "Last year we got six. The pilot let us take them all and he had the same plane as yours."
Reluctantly, the pilot gave in and all six Moose were loaded. However, on takeoff the little plane couldn't handle the load and went down, crashing into the wilderness.
Somehow, Paddy and Mick survived the crash, and climbed out of the wreckage.
Paddy asked Mick, "Any idea where we are?"
"I think we're pretty close to where we crashed last year."
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And remember…
… Do employees at a tea factory get a coffee break?