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Aim of workshop: to improve health professionals' knowledge, skills, and confidence in the palliative approach to care for people with a life-limiting illness. The workshops are interactive and provide time for discussion through case presentations and examples.

Topics include: Principles/models of palliative care; symptom management; pharmacy in palliative care; communication, teamwork and self care; case studies; overview of PEPA and placement opportunities.

Intended workshop audience: ALL persons working in Hospital, Community, Aged Care or GP Practice settings, regardless of their discipline or palliative care knowledge.

Aim of workshop: to improve health professionals' knowledge, skills, and confidence in the palliative approach to care for people with a life-limiting illness. The workshops are interactive and provide time for discussion through case presentations and examples.

Topics include: Principles/models of palliative care; symptom management; pharmacy in palliative care; communication, teamwork and self care; case studies; overview of PEPA and placement opportunities.

Intended workshop audience: ALL persons working in Hospital, Community, Aged Care or GP Practice settings, regardless of their discipline or palliative care knowledge.

(On Sale 05/01/2023 at 9:00am)

This 2-day online multidisciplinary course on Sexuality and Sexual Difficulties is relevant for all health practitioners, trainees and students. It will discuss the need to talk about sex, address the obstacles, and will empower the registrants to raise and discuss topics of sexuality and sexual difficulties with their patients. It will cover the assessment and management of common sexual difficulties, from a bio-psycho-socio-cultural perspective, provide educational resources and an overview of therapeutic options.

It will be held on Friday 17 and Saturday 25 March 2023 and will once again be fully online enabling those who are not able to travel to Melbourne, to participate.
Early bird registration will end on 19 February 2023 and registrations will close on 13 March 2023.

In 2019, the Primary Health Network (PHN) undertook a health needs assessment in Glen Innes and Tenterfield as part of its Rural Communities Project.

Content includes:

· Orthostatic hypotension

· Thyroid issues in older people

· Management of UTI in older people

· Polymyalgia Rheumatica

A vital service for young people has been officially opened today with Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, the Hon Emma McBride MP, cutting the ribbon at headspace Wyong.

NSW Health has issued an alert to clinicians and the general community, highlighting that Meningococcal disease cases are above average for this time of year.

This webinar:

• introduces frameworks and evidence about what helps to support research use within organisations

• discusses the barriers and enablers of integrating research into practice and provide examples of approaches to support evidence-informed practice

• provides examples of how organisations and practitioners have successfully combined research evidence with other types of knowledge to create impact or change.

This webinar is designed for program planners and practice managers involved in practice and organisational decision making. Practitioners looking for opportunities to strengthen evidence-informed decision making in their organisation, and researchers wanting to improve implementation of research findings will also find it useful.

The NSW Government is surveying businesses affected directly and indirectly by the recent storms and floods, to better understand the extent and severity of damage in the impacted Local Government Areas.