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In this session we will provide an overview of the current burden of dementia in Australia, potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia and the role of primary healthcare in reducing dementia risk.

We will also introduce a new clinical trial that is currently recruiting primary care clinics, that is investigating two interventions for assessing dementia risk and reducing dementia risk-factors in middle-aged adults.

Emergency Medicine Education & Training offer monthly webinars aimed at rural GPs, especially those who work in ED.

The month's webinar topic is 'Syncope & the Vomiting Infant - A Focus on Surgical Pathology'

This webinar will discuss the management of COVID-19 positive patients (both children and adults) in the Central Coast region, from when they are first diagnosed to when they are released from home isolation.

The session will cover:

• A proposed shared care model for general practice involvement in caring for COVID-19 positive

patients in collaboration with CCLHD COVID-19 care teams.

• How the CCLHD COVID-19 care teams decide the type of care a patient receives.

• The role of the patient’s GP/General Practice and communication with GP/General Practice team.

Latest vaccination figures from the Primary Health Network show that over 70% of COVID-19 vaccinations in our region are occurring in general practice.

To coincide with Black Dog Institute’s launch of the new White Paper, Modern work: Its impact on Australia’s mental health, a panel of workplace leaders discuss the way work has changed in the past 20 years and its impact on mental health, providing professional insights and strategies to influence changes at policy and system levels.

Delivered in partnership with Southern Cross University, this live webinar will bring together a diverse range of experts to discuss how practitioners, policy makers and experts explore the challenges and opportunities to realise the full potential of Lifestyle Medicine in practice, beyond theory and education.

Specifically, discussion topics will include:

*Overcoming barriers to understanding the concept and place of Lifestyle Medicine

*Educating patients and practitioners to become champions of Lifestyle Medicine

*Exploring Lifestyle Medicine’s contributions to medicine

*Challenges to overcoming these topical issues, such as funding

Hunter New England Health (HNE) and the Primary Health Network (PHN) have partnered to deliver a series of educational webinars to help inform people about the facts on COVID-19, the vaccines and the local response to support Aboriginal communities. Each webinar will have a panel of local experts to talk about topics important to the community. It’s an opportunity to ask those burning questions to help keep you, your family and your community safe.

This webinar will discuss the following:
COVID-19 Update I HNE Aboriginal situation update I Cultural Support and Governance I Epidemiology update I Vaccination efficacy & safety I Questions & Answers session