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WAGPET
Estè Maree and Bernadette Pomone from the GEGPN were invited to attend WAGPET training program review. The purpose of the review was to provide advice to WAGPET on the effectiveness of WAGPET’s current Indigenous Health Training initiatives and to recommend improvements and opportunities for the future. Indigenous training refers to accessfor GP Registrars and Prevocational Doctors to Indigenous training in the region.
Continuous Medical Education (CME)
The GEGP Network has been in close corporation with WACHS – Population Health and WAGP Network in assisting GP’s and Practices to be updated with the most recent information regarding the H1N1 influenza updates and H1N1 vaccination. The GEGPN and Population Health organized training sessions for GP’s and Practice Staff on the H1N1 PANVAX vaccination in Kalgoorlie and in Esperance, the training sessions were presented by Dr Charles Douglas.
The Esperance and Kalgoorlie Obstetric Small Group had their monthly meetings. The Esperance Obstetric Group received ACCRM accreditation approval for extended skill points and the procedural grant in Obstetrics.
The Kalgoorlie Obstetric group had their end of cycle review meeting in September. The Small Group has also been approved as being eligible for the Procedural Skills Grant. It has also been approved for Category 1 Women's Health points. These points will be allocated to your group members within the next two weeks.
The GP’s in Esperance had a breakfast talk on the 14th of August, Professor Mark Thomas did a presentation on Chronic Kidney Disease with Hepatitis C.
The Kalgoorlie Medical Practitioners had a dinner event on the 8th of September, presented by Dr Leon Cohen. The topic was Bariatric Surgery and Type 2 Diabetes – “The Sword is Mightier than the pen” and about 30 Medical Practitioners and 11 Health Professionals attended the event.
The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health and the GEGPN hosted a Women’s Health update for Health Professional in Kalgoorlie on Friday 16 October 2009. The presentation was a videoconference to Esperance, from Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital. The presenters were Dr Dr Cate Lombard, Senior Dietitian and Dr Liz Farrell, Gynaecologist.
Estè Maree
GP Education Services Program Officer
Jo Moyle finished visiting on the NPS topic “Treating the symptoms of Dementia” to GP’s in Kalgoorlie, Esperance, Norseman, Leonora and Kambalda. Jo has visited over 27 GP’s with this topic. In total Jo visited 55 GP’s in this financial year, ensuring that the Division went well over its targets with the NPS contract. She also revisited some of the practices with the previous topic “Early use of insulin and oral anti-diabetic drugs Diabetes, on special request.
Jo had interactive workshops with nurses at Edward Collick Nursing Home and Esperance Aged care facility on the Dementia topic. She also had a breakfast meeting with Pharmacists, delivering the Dementia topic.
Jo commenced visiting GP’s, Pharmacists and Nursing staff in Kalgoorlie, Esperance, Norseman and Kambalda on the topic “Antiplatelet & anticoagulant therapy in stroke prevention” in September. Jo already visited 17 GP’s and 2 Pharmacists with this topic. She also had an interactive workshop with the nurses in Esperance.
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Divisions of General Practice newsletter July 2009
Quality use of medicines with Antibiotics
Health professionals are being given clear guidelines for prescribing particular antibiotics in different diagnostic scenarios in the latest National Prescribing Service (NPS) education program, Management of specific respiratory tract infections.
The therapeutic program reinforces the following:
• Antibiotics are only appropriate in acute cough if a chest X-ray suggests pneumonia or in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with sputum purulence, plus increased sputum volume and/or dyspnoea
• Antibiotics are only appropriate in sore throat if all four diagnostic criteria (fever, exudate, lymphadenopathy and absence of cough) for streptococcal infection are present
• Use penicillin V for 10 days in uncomplicated sore throat that appears to be streptococcal
• Reserve macrolides when treating respiratory tract infections for those with pertussis or those hypersensitive to penicillin
• Cough and cold medicines have limited efficacy
• Provide advice to patients on appropriate symptomatic relief
As part of the therapeutic program, NPS provides health professionals with:
• Case study (58): Antibiotics and respiratory tract illness – thinking of patient-centred care
• GP Clinical Audit: Management of specific respiratory tract infections (enrol by 7 August 2009)
• Prescribing Practice Review (46): Management of specific respiratory tract infections
• NPS News (63): Managing expectations for antibiotics in respiratory tract infections
The GP clinical audit is recognised by the RACGP Quality Assurance & Continuing Professional Development Program, total points 40 (category 1) and in the ACRRM Professional Development Program, 30 points (extended skills). It also qualifies as an activity for QPI of the PIP (Quality Prescribing Initiative of the Practice Incentives Program), year ending April 2010.
To enrol in the clinical audit visit www.nps.org.au/health_professionals.
For more information contact NPS on (02) 8217 8700 or email info@nps.org.au. For more information on the program contact Estè Maree at the Goldfields Esperance GP Network PH:(08) 9021 6610 or
Email: hmaree@gegpnetwork.org.au
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