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This biennial conference will bring together Australian and New Zealand nurses with an interest in delivering high quality, contemporary palliative care.

The four-day interactive virtual conference will be the perfect forum for nurses and other health professionals to seek new knowledge, become familiar with new products and services to the industry, and to identify opportunities to translate the best evidence into clinical and academic excellence. Networking, debating and socialising with peers will add a further dimension to the experience. The virtual format offers great flexibility and facilitates networking with a far wider audience.

Please join us for an education session on the SeNT eReferral system. The webinar will showcase the recent enhancements made to SeNT and highlight the patient and practice benefits of the SeNT eReferral system. A representative from the Local Health District will be joining the webinar to give an overview of the referral management and triage process at the LHD once an eReferral is received.

Providing best practice guidelines in line with NSW Health policy and practice in responding to children, young people and adults who have, or may have, been sexually assaulted and their families, carers and significant others. Outline medical care follow up recommendations by GP’s, including acute and non-acute crisis response, medical and forensic care and management and ongoing interventions and support to clients.

General practices are being asked to undertake a significant number of pandemic-specific activities in addition to their usual general practice work. In recognition of the additional effort by practices, Practice Support Grants of $4,000 (ex GST) are available to all General Practice sites in the Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network Region to support ongoing COVID care and vaccinations.

The Australian Government has accepted the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation’s (ATAGI) recommendation that an additional booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine be provided to vulnerable population groups to increase their protection levels before winter.

Please join us for an interactive session lead by Dr Yolandie Goodyear MB.ChB (UFS), FRANZCP, Cert C&A Psych Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.

This session will focus on Gender Dysphoria and youth mental health focusing on diagnosing, gender affirming care, consent/capacity medical transition and fertility

preservation to help support your patient in their transition of gender.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit older Australians particularly hard as one of the most vulnerable populations to the virus. This has resulted in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) being locked down, staff dealing with COVID-19 related deaths, outbreaks, staffing shortages, and potential job losses due to mandatory vaccination.

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a rare but serious infection spread by mosquito bites. Cases of JE have been confirmed in parts of regional NSW following recent heavy rains.