August 10 2023
My Medicare: a new voluntary patient registration model
My Medicare aims to strengthen the relationship between patients, their general practice, general practitioner and primary care teams.
My Medicare aims to strengthen the relationship between patients, their general practice, general practitioner and primary care teams.
NSW Health Pathology has updated advice to clinicians in Hunter New England Health and Mid North Coast Local Health District, as well as GPs, to ensure clinicians are aware of the correct ordering protocol for Faecal PCR test assays.
Four Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) will be established within the Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network.
After more than three decades without a local General Practitioner, the community of Spring Ridge is celebrating the arrival of Dr Owen Boyd, a GP who will service the community with two face-to-face consultation days on a regular schedule, while providing telehealth for the remainder.
The PHN has recently commissioned five service providers to deliver primary mental health services for priority populations across the Hunter, New England, and Central Coast regions. The following information contains information regarding eligibility and providers.
Primary care providers and their staff are increasingly finding themselves as part of the front line dealing with the impact of disasters.
Over recent years the Hunter New England and Central Coast regions experienced the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, bushfires, drought, extreme weather events including thunderstorms and severe floods, and a rodent plague.
As we work toward understanding how the Local Health Districts will implement VAD, we invite you to participate in a short survey.
From 1 July 2023, ODT medicines will become part of the Section 100 Highly Specialised Drugs (HSD) Program (Community Access) arrangements. This means ODT medicines will be dispensed in the same way as other community access Section 100 HSD Program medicines from section 90 approved community pharmacies, section 92 approved medical practitioners, and section 94 approved hospital authorities (public and private).
More than eight million dollars will be provided to 339 general practices across the Hunter, New England and Central Coast regions, under the Commonwealth Government’s Strengthening Medicare Grants Program, being facilitated by the PHN.
The Cancer Institute NSW and Calvary Mater Newcastle are seeking expressions of interest for membership to their prostate cancer and colon cancer implementation working groups.