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In Vivo Academy is bringing back its popular webinar series “Managing Multimorbidity”. The first live webinar will be held with A/Prof. Gary Kilov (GP, Director of the Launceston Diabetes Clinic Clinical Associate Professor, University of Melbourne; Honorary Associate Professor, University of Sydney) as presenter and Prof. Mieke van Driel (Emeritus Professor of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland) as moderator.

Osteoporosis Australia (OA) now known as Healthy Bones Australia hosted a National Forum with leading Australian clinical experts to develop a Position Statement on the management of osteoporosis.

The RCH Education Hub is excited to present the Paediatric Health Education Program for General Practitioners. Registration is open. To register and access the program page please log in via the link. https://learn.rch.org.au/

The next live webinar will be presented by Dr Rod Phillips and the topic is "Vascular Birthmarks and Infantile Haemangiomas".

The multifaceted education program has been designed for General Practitioners and includes: monthly live interactive webinars (recordings available), an online chat forum, resources, and feedback to support your practice in paediatric health care. For more information please contact the Education Hub via education.hub@rch.org.au

Note: We recommend you use your personal email address to register, as your work organisation may block emails from the RCH learning portal.

​Hear from a fellow GP, Dr Charlotte Hespe, as she discusses some common barriers to proactively incorporating shingles prevention discussion in your practice and provides helpful tips and tools to support you in starting the conversation with your patients.

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss the impact of shingles on patients and identify who is at risk, Examine the clinical profile of SHINGRIX, Develop strategies to incorporate shingles discussions in your practice

Speakers:

Charlotte Hespe Associate Professor - is a GP and Practice Owner in Glebe. She also works as Head of GP and Primary Care Research for UNDA. Charlotte is Chair, NSW/ACT Faculty Council RACGP. She has submitted a PhD on Implementation of Best Practice guidelines in the real world of Australian General Practice – using cardiovascular disease preventive care as the topic for the opportunity to improve.

Are you prepared if a patient discloses Domestic Family Violence? Upload the DFV Primary Care Action Plan today.

This Mastermind session will demonstrate to general practices how LUMOS provides significant insights into how patients interact with the health system outside of your individual practice. Lumos provides individualised practice data that is comparable against deidentified averaged data sets with other participating practices across NSW, covering a variety of different indicators. This supports data driven decision making which assists in focused quality improvement processes where they're most needed.

This free training course is delivered over 2 half-day sessions online and provides nurses and midwives with the knowledge and confidence to increase screening and management of hepatitis C in primary care settings.

Online Training One: Friday 14 April 2023, 9:30am – 12:30pm (AEST)

Online Training Two: Saturday 22 April 2023, 9:30am – 12:30pm (AEST)

Learning Objectives - by the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Describe risk factors for HCV, enabling discussions with patients around prevention

• Discuss HCV serology to identify opportunities for screening, testing and linkage-to-care

• Explain the role of nurses and midwives in providing culturally appropriate care, free from stigma and discrimination, to people from priority populations

• Explain the role of nurses and midwives in the management of chronic HCV, advanced liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma

• Outline strategies for supporting patients with medication adherence

In a significant win for residents of the Hunter, New England and Central Coast, the federal government confirmed this week that three LGAs across the region will be home to four Medicare funded Urgent Care Clinics (UCC).