2021 Influenza vaccination ordering.

Moneik Borsovszky, Senior Immunisation Project Officer at the Immunisation Unit of Health Protection NSW at NSW Health joins Anne Davis.

Practice to Practice.

Dr Michael Clements, Townsville Practice Owner joins Anne to talk about the Practice to Practice pilot program.

Resources:

Practice to Practice website: https://www.racgp.org.au/practicetopractice

Practice to Practice case studies: https://www.racgp.org.au/the-racgp/faculties/rural/practice-to-practice/case-studies

NewsGP column: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/gp-opinion/new-racgp-program-to-boost-access-to-national-gp-c

2020 Rural GP Summit: https://www.racgp.org.au/the-racgp/faculties/rural/advocacy-and-research/racgp-rural-gp-summit

RACGP Rural: https://www.racgp.org.au/the-racgp/faculties/rural

Data value during COVID

Katrina Otto, Managing Director and Owner of Train IT Medical joins Anne Davis.

Resources:

Link to Train IT Medical: https://trainitmedical.com.au/

Katrina's free resources: https://trainitmedical.com.au/resources-and-support/

Train IT Medical Online Courses: https://courses.trainitmedical.com.au/

About Katrina: https://trainitmedical.com.au/about/

Planning for NSW 2021 Influenza vaccination program.

Moneik Borsovszky, Senior Immunisation Project Officer at the Immunisation Unit of Health Protection NSW at NSW Health joins Anne Davis.

Resources:

Vaccine Centre: https://nsw.tollhealthcare.com/

Cold chain audit in Strive for 5. https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/national-vaccine-storage-guidelines-strive-for-5-appendix-2-vaccine-storage-self-audit

Links to posters for vaccine fridges: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/national-vaccine-storage-guidelines-resource-collection#posters

Update on NSW personal injury compensation activities.

Liane Steele, Manager of Clinical Standards and Practice with SIRA joins RACGP’s Anne Davis.

Resources:

AMA Fees List contact: email at [email protected] or by phone on 02 6270 5400

Current SIRA fees: https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/resources-library/list-of-sira-publications/accordion/workers-compensation-publications/_nocache#accordion-586766 and https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/951139/SIRA-rates-for-General-Practitioners-2021.pdf

SIRA certificate of capacity/certificate of fitness: [https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/325579/SIRA08719-Certificate-of-capacity-certificate-of-fitness-for-work.pdf]

SIRA CONTACT: SIRA at [email protected]

Report: [https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/950678/Healthcare-Review-Final-Report.pdf/_nocache ]

2021 influenza vaccination program

Dennis Meijer, senior policy analyst with the Immunisation Unit of the Health Protection NSW at NSW Health

Resources:

Immunisation page: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/

Immunisation Toolkit for General Practices: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Publications/gp-toolkit.pdf

Cold chain learning module: https://nswhealth.seertechsolutions.com.au/public_content/HETICP/HETI/CCMWebv3/story_html5.html

Public Health Units: 1300 066 055 https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/Pages/phus.aspx

NSW Health’s Mareeka Hair, manager of the COVID 19 Vaccination program with Health Protection NSW joins Anne to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine.

DISCLAIMER - As of last week the UQ vaccine has ceased trials due to a number of false positive HIV tests. Subsequently Australia has increased our vaccines purchase quantities from other providers

Resources:

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has developed preliminary advice on priority population groups:

https://www.health.gov.au/news/preliminary-advice-from-atagi-on-general-principles-for-the-covid-19-vaccination-program

Australian COVID-19 Vaccination Policy: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/australian-covid-19-vaccination-policy

Anne Davis is joined by Michelle Fernandez, Senior Project Officer with the Immunisation Unit of the Health Protection Unit in NSW. This episode is an introduction to immunisations and it will be a series of podcasts in collaboration with NSW Health.

Tony Lawrence of SafetyPlus Risk Management joins Anne to discuss workplace safety and the practice manager’s responsibilities.

Tony has worked for over 30 years as a health and safety professional with public and private employers including Tafe NSW, WorkCover and industry associations. As a consultant he has a variety of clients throughout the health and community sector including NSW Health, in home care services and not-for-profits.

He has extensive experience in assisting businesses develop their health and safety systems for accreditation and is retained by a range of organisations to undertake internal audits in preparation for the accreditation audits.

David Wenban, Managing Director of Australian Health Industry Group joins Anne Davis to provide expert and practical advice around workplace claims.

Resources:

https://www.ahig.com.au/

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/awards-and-agreements