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Allied Health Reconnection Grants Open
The grants aim to encourage primary care Allied Health providers to implement ideas to re-engage or enhance care whilst promoting sector collaboration.
The grants aim to encourage primary care Allied Health providers to implement ideas to re-engage or enhance care whilst promoting sector collaboration.
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Speaker: Dr Craig Taylor FRACS Bariatric Surgeon
Details: Obesity has become a major underlying cause for many common health problems seen in General Practice including type-2 diabetes, sleep apnoea, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, fatty liver disease, PCOS and infertility, and skeletal and joint degeneration. Numerous published data spanning over 30 years has demonstrated the short and medium term effectiveness of Bariatric surgery in achieving major weight reduction and co-morbidity improvement, but there are concerns about long term weight regain.
The purpose of this evening symposium is discuss the common types of bariatric surgical procedures available and their effect on diabetes remission and other co-morbidities, and outline the secret to maintaining long term weight control after surgery.
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This stand-alone scientific symposium on the topic of Long COVID is designed for GPs and sponsored by MSD Medical Affairs.
This virtual event is for all Australian GPs and will cover the Scientific Basis for Long COVID, Clinical Presentations/Phenotypes and Management Approach - Practice Points.
The presenter, Dr Alistair Miller, is a Respiratory Physician working at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. He has broad experience with COVID providing care for people with COVID-19 in the acute hospital setting, as the previous Clinical Lead of the North West Metro COVID + Care Pathway, and in the RMH Respiratory post-COVID clinic which has run since 2020.
He has contributed to the health pathways modules on acute and long COVID and sits on the Primary and Chronic Care Panel of the National Clinical Evidence Taskforce.
More than 5,000 individuals across the Hunter, New England and Central Coast regions have received federally funded mental health treatment through programs designed and commissioned by the Primary Health Network (the PHN).
The PHN is encouraging people across the Hunter, New England and Central Coast to consider their future health care preferences and understand the importance of advance care planning, during this year’s Advance Care Planning week.
Care finders support vulnerable people to learn about, apply for and set up aged care services and other supports in the community.
A redesign of primary mental health care services combined with an increase in funding will deliver an additional 500 funded therapy sessions for people living in the Central Coast region over the next two years.