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Supporting patients with diabetes during COVID-19
11 July 2021
This National Diabetes week (11 - 17 July), COORDINARE sat down with Dr Kathy Michelmore of Lakeside Medical Practice to ask her about the challenges and importance of managing patients with Diabetes in the context of COVID-19.
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World No Tobacco Day 2021
31 May 2021
World No Tobacco Day aims to raise awareness about the dangers of using tobacco and focuses on providing essential support to tobacco users to quit. This year’s theme is Commit To Quit.
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The Surgery At Jerra introduces initiative to improve Bexsero vaccine uptake among Aboriginal families
26 April 2021
The Surgery At Jerra is a family practice located in Jerrabomberra, a small town near Queanbeyan on Ngunnawal Country.
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Free Medical Practice Assistant Traineeships
21 April 2021
UNE Partnerships are offering fully subsidised traineeships in Cert IV Medical Practice Assisting (MPA) qualification HLT47715.
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The traineeship combines work-based training with an employer and formal training from a training provider with a combination of online and face-to-face workshops.
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COVID-19 vaccine expression of interest (EOI)
22 January 2021
Please note that this EOI has now closed. General practices in South Eastern NSW are invited to express interest in participating in Phase 1b of the Australian Government’s COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out.
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Social prescribing project: Feedback loop 2
4 December 2020
COORDINARE recently commenced the second feedback loop of its co-design project to inform the development of an innovative ‘social prescribing’ model to improve support for people living with chronic conditions in the South Eastern NSW region.
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Dr Duncan MacKinnon RACGP's NSW/ACT GP of the year
29 September 2020
Congratulations to Dr Duncan MacKinnon who has been named the NSW/ACT General Practitioner of the Year by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). The RACGP Awards recognise the value of GPs in our local communities and celebrate their achievements.
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Cancer Services Specialist Letter - Handover of care to community
21 September 2020
eHealth NSW has developed an electronic Clinical Document Delivery Service (CDDS) for sharing patient information between hospitals, primary care providers and patients. The Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD (ISLHD) and surrounding GPs will be the first site to go live and test the new service.
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Telehealth: tips to improve your 'webside manner'
1 September 2020
COVID-19 has required health professionals to adapt quickly in the way that they provide health care in Australia. Regardless of whether you have used telehealth before, it is now being used and offered at a much larger scale.
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Chronic Pain Management Program in Southern NSW
24 July 2020
COORDINARE is offering small group education programs targeting patients suffering low to moderate chronic pain for more than 3 months. Each Chronic Pain Management Program (CPMP) is facilitated by two suitably qualified allied health professionals.
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Multicultural videos and resources
22 July 2020
Are you a GP? Do you speak a second language?
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Illawara Shoalhaven Local Health Distrist (ISLHD) Multicultural Health Service is creating videos in languages other than English to encourage culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities to get tested for COVID-19. -
Improving opioid safety
16 July 2020
In Australia, pharmaceutical opioids are now responsible for more deaths and hospitalisations than illegal opioids such as heroin, which has contributed to the recent changes in regulations and to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) changes to prescription opioids.
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