Australian Capital Territory Division of General Practice

Closing the Gap

The Practice Incentive Payment Indigenous Health Scheme

• Calculator for Indigenous Health Incentive (Moreton Bay General Practice Network website)
• Clinical software templates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Practice Incentive Program
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples MBS Health Assessment Resource Kit -DoHA
• Chronic Disease Management Medicare items—Questions and Answers (updated 1 May 2010)
• Information on the Practice Incentives Program (PIP) Indigenous Health Incentive
• Frequently Asked Question about Indigenous health MBS items

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identification

• Playing HIDE and SEEK with Australian Indigenous Identification at Primary Health Care Services, 2009 (PowerPoint presentation)
• Improving identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in health data

Other Closing the Gap links

• Closing the Gap—Tackling Indigenous chronic disease
• Closing the Gap: Tackling chronic disease—Department of Health and Ageing publication (418 KB)

GP experiences in Indigenous health

• Improving Indigenous patients’ access to mainstream health services: The Inala experience
• Adult health checks for Indigenous Australians: The first year’s experience from the Inala Indigenous Health Service

Opinion pieces

• Closing the accountability gap: The first step towards better Indigenous health
• The new "Indigenous health" incentive payment: issues and challenges

ACT & Australian Government's Indigenous health policies

• A New Way: The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Family Wellbeing Plan 2006–2011
• Closing the gap: Tackling chronic disease—Department of Health and Ageing publication (418 KB)
• National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous health outcomes: Implementation Plan

ACT Indigenous demographic, health and cultural information

• A Social and Cultural Profile of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Canberra
• 10 out of 10 deadly health stories: Nutrition and physical activity—Successful programs from NSW Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
• Success stories: Environmental, Social, Emotional and Spiritual Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Report of the Indigenous Health Workshop
• Australian Aboriginal wall map
• Indigenous Language Map (interactive)

Indigenous health guidelines

• Working with Indigenous people and communities—A practice resource
• Introduction to Indigenous Health: A resource kit to support the practice team working in general practice (2.97 MB)
• National guide to a preventive assessment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Health promotion resources

• Healthy for Life (Department of Health and Ageing)
• Framework for Measuring Wellbeing: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• Tomorrow People

Epidemiological work in Indigenous health

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander access to major health programs
• Mainstream Organisations' Interaction with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the Muuji Region of the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales (4.75 MB)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments, Barriers to improving intake

Other related organisations

• Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
• Heart Foundation Indigenous health resources
• Australian Bureau of Statistics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources
• Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
• Medicare Indigenous health resources and information
• National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
• National Library of Australia (Mura Gadi-a guide to manuscript, pictures and oral histories in the National Library of Australia relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples)
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
• Healthhabitat

• Advance care plans
• Aged Care Access Initiative
• Aged Care and Rehabilitation Services (ACRS) request for admission/referral form—Calvary Health Care ACT
• ACRS GP Referral form
• Aged Care forum 
• Canberra After-hours Locum Service (CALMS)  
• Community Acute/Post Acute Care (CAPAC)
• Falls prevention
• GP Business Case: for residents in Aged Care facilities—ACTDGP
• Hospital in the Home (HITH)
• Osteoporosis resources
• Rapid Assessment of the Deteriorating Aged at Risk (RADAR) 
• Report on Aged Care forum—ACT Division of General Practice 3 June 2009
• Rehabilitation Medicine - Request for Consultation form—The Canberra Hospital
• The medical care of older persons in residential aged care facilities - the 'silver book' 4th ed 2006—Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

• ACT alcohol consumption resources
• ACT Alcohol and Other Drug Services Directory
• Comorbidity of mental disorders and substance use: a brief guide for the primary care clinician
• Comorbidity Strategic frameworks—Australian Drug Information Network
• Guidelines for the Treatment of Alcohol Problems—Department of Health and Ageing
• Guidelines on the management of co-occurring alcohol and other drug and mental health conditions in alcohol and other drug treatment settings
• Reduce your risk: new national guidelines for alcohol consumption
• University of Sydney Discipline of Addiction Medicine and NSW Health drug and alcohol powerpoint lectures

• Recognition and treatment of anaphylaxis

• Asthma Foundation ACT
• Community Asthma Support Services brochure
• Community Asthma Support Services (CASS) referal form

• Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Psychologists list—Australian Psychological Society
• Autism Asperger ACT
• Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder—Raising Children Network
• Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs autism information
• Department of Health and Ageing autism information
• Early Days brochure—Promoting the development of young children on the autism spectrum
• Helping children with autism: Evidence-based assessment and treatment - a guide for health professionals booklet
• Speech Pathology AustraliaThe Australian Association of Occupational Therapists
• The Australian Association of Occupational Therapists

• Australian Breastfeeding Association Lactation Resource Centre
• Mothers Direct online catalogue for Health Professionals
• Paediatrics & Child Health Division of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) breastfeeding position statement

• Bulk-billing FAQ

• Cancer Council Primary care resources
• Cancerscreening.gov.au
• Clinical guidelines
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines Summary
  • Can Meet Needs—free online training for NAT: PD-C
• ACT Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group
• Breast Cancer Network Australia
• CanTeen—The Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer
• Interstate Patient Travel Assistance Scheme (IPTAS)
• Look Good...Feel Better
• National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre—Health Professionals information

• Asthma resources
• Case Study on Stroke Prevention—presentation by Associate Professor Christian Lueck
• Chronic Care Program flyer
  • Chronic Care Program referral form—ACT Health
• Chronic Condition Self-Management Guidelines—Summary for General Practitioners
• Chronic Disease Management Medicare items—Questions and Answers (updated 1 May 2010)
• Chronic kidney diseasae (CKD) management in general practice—Kidney Health Australia
• Chronic kidney diseasae (CKD) management in general practice (summary)—Kidney Health Australia
  
• Closing the gap: Tackling chronic disease—Department of Health and Ageing publication (418 KB)
• Diabetes Australia—Information for Health Professionals
• Diabetes resources
• Health Coaching Australia
• Heart Foundation GP and practice nurse web pages
• Heart Foundation General Practice—Managing Coronary Heart Disease
• Lifestyle/Physical activity resources
• Navigating self-management—A practical approach to Implementation for Australian health care agencies
• Pain management resources
• Putting prevention into practice—Guidelines for the implementation of prevention in the general practice setting 2nd edition
• Starting the Conversation on Renal Health
• Self-Help Organisations United Together (SHOUT)
• Sharing Health Care: Chronic Condition Self-Management Guidelines—Desktop guide for General Practitioners
• Supporting Chronic Disease Self-Management—Experience for South Australia's Eyre Peninsula

• Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal—National Institute of Clinical Studies
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention, Early Detection and Management of Colorectal Cancer (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Lymphoma (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Women with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (NHMRC)
• Clinical practice guidelines for the management and support of younger women with breast cancer (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Psychosocial Care of Adults with Cancer (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines: Evidence-based Information and Recommendations for the Management of Localised Prostate Cancer (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Advanced Breast Cancer (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Early Breast Cancer - Second Edition (NHMRC)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines Familial Aspects of Cancer: a Guide to Clinical Practice (NHMRC)
• Warfarin Therapy Guidelines (Contact Drug Information Pharmacist at The Canberra Hospital—02 6244 2222 or Calvary Hospital—02 6201 6111 )

• ACT Health fact sheets
• ACT Hepatitis Resource Centre
• AIDS Action Council of the ACT
• AIDS Council of NSW
• Australasian Society for HIV Medicine
• Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA)
• Communicable Disease Control, Health Protection Service—ACT Health
• Communicable diseases information—Department of Health and Ageing
• Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA)
• Directions ACT
• National Hepatitis B Strategy 2010–2013
• National Hepatitis C Strategy
• National HIV Strategy—Revitalising Australia’s Response 2005-2008
• National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance (NNDSS)
• People Living With HIV/AIDS ACT
• Positive Life NSW

Australian bat lyssavirus

• ACT Health Rabies and Australian Bat Lyssavirus infection
• Australian bat lyssavirus infection and rabies—The Australian Immunisation Handbook 9th Edition
• Australian Bat Lyssavirus—Guidelines for post-exposure treatment

• Community Health Intake GP information
• Dedicated GP phone line
• GP-only referral form for Community Health

• Lifestyle Modification Program
• Diabetes ACT
  • Diabetes Information Group (DIG)
  • Post-Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Registry
• Diabetes Australia—Information for Health Professionals
• Diabetes management in general practice (15th Edition) 2009/10—Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes
• Australian Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment Tool (AUSDRISK)—Australian General Practice Network

• Clinical software templates

Other links & resources

• ACT Health Net
• NPS prescribing software tools
• NEHTA (National eHealth Transition Authority)
• Department of Health and Ageing eHealth webpage
• ACT Health e-Health webpage
• RACGP Standards for general practices

Most commonly used general practice software

• MedTech
• Medical Director
• Genie
• Best Practice
• Zedmed

• Elective surgery waiting lists - ACT Health

• Fair Work Online
• Advertise for staff/Employment

• 45-49 year old adult health check
• Health check - Humanitarian entrants to Australia
• Health Check - People with an Intellectual Disability
• Healthy Kids Check for 4 year olds
• Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment

• ACT Health fact sheets
• ACT Health NET
• RACGP publications order form—March 2010

• AIDS Action Council of the ACT
• AIDS Council of NSW
• Australasian Society for HIV Medicine
• National HIV Strategy—Revitalising Australia’s Response 2005-2008
• National HIV Testing Policy 2006
• People Living With HIV/AIDS ACT
• Positive Life NSW
• Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Guidelines for men who have sex with men (STIGMA Guidelines)
• Top tips for living well with HIV
• Communicable diseases information—Department of Health and Ageing
• Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA)
• National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance (NNDSS)

ACTDGP

• Immunisation practice guide
• Immunisation: Common observed reactions to vaccines and what to do (hard copies available from ACTDGP reception)
• National Immunisation Program Schedule
• National Immunisation Program tick sheet (PDF)
• Pre-vaccination screening checklist
• Recognition and treatment of anaphylaxis
• Oral Rotarix vaccine—Dose cut-off dates
• Testing of purpose-built refrigerating vaccine storage cabinets report
• Taking the right steps poster (PDF)
• Childhood Immunisation Schedule magnet (PDF)
• Thinking Pregnancy? Think Immunisation brochure

Local

• Communicable Disease Control, Health Protection Service ACT Health
• ACT Immunisation Strategy 2007–2010
• ACT Health form—Report of an adverse event following immunisation (AEFI)

National

• Immunise Australia Program – Department of Health and Ageing
• Australian Immunisation Handbook 9th edition 2008
• Immunisation Myths and Realities: responding to arguments against immunisation 4th edition
• General Practice Immunisation Incentives webpage
• General Practice Immunisation Incentives (GPII) Guidelines
• Australian Childhood Immunisation Register 
• Fact sheet for immunisation providers—Influenza vaccination 2010
• Immunisation Provider Guidelines—Rotavirus immunisation
• National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance
• National HPV Vaccination Program Register—Information for health professionals
• Strive for 5—National Vaccine Storage Guidelines

Influenza

• Influenza 2010
• Fact sheet for immunisation providers—Influenza vaccination 2010

Discussion papers

• Treatment of influenza in interpandemic periods—Discussion paper
• Influenza vaccination of health care workers—Discussion paper 

Other links & resources

• National General Practice Immunisation Program—Australian General Practice Network
• SA immunisation 'catch-up' calculator
• World Health Organisation Vaccine Preventable Diseases Monitoring System
• Purpose-built vaccine fridges

• Medical legal issues that 'stress' GPs—Sneddon Hall & Gallop Lawyers (PDF)—12 May 2010

ACT lifestyle risk factor resources from ACTDGP & Heart Foundation

• ACT alcohol consumption resources
• ACT nutrition resources
• ACT physical activity resources
• ACT smoking cessation resources
• Other ACT lifestyle risk factor resources

Other links & resources

• clinical software templates for lifestyle modification program
• Lifestyle Modification Program providers in the ACT
• Lifestyle Modification Program referral: MBS item claiming criteria
• Health Coaching Australia
• Lifestyle Risk Heart Foundation resources
  • Heartmoves
    • Heartmoves Pre-Exercise Assessment and Referral Form (PEARF)
• Find thirty
• Go for 2&5
• Kids at Play
• Managing Coronary Heart Disease Heart Foundation resource
• Measure Up campaign information
• Navigating self-management—A practical approach to implementation for Australian health care agencies
• Putting prevention into practice—Guidelines for the implementation of prevention in the general practice setting 2nd edition
• SmartStart for Kids - GP - HELP
  • SmartStart - HELP referral form
• Australian Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment Tool (AUSDRISK)—Australian General Practice Network

• Lactation Resource Centre - Health professionals
• PANDSI (Post & Ante-Natal Depression Support & Information Inc.) Canberra, Australia
• PANDSI brochure
• PANDSI Recommended reading list

• Medical Board of the ACT Standards Statements

• Changes to Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) effective 1 May 2010
• Medicare Online education services
• Quick reference guide for General Practitioners (GPMP TCAs)
• Search the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) listings
• Search the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits (PBS) listings
• Browse the PBS streamlined authority
• MBS Fact Sheets

• ACT Health Pharmaceutical Services medicines and poisons information sheets
• Home Medicines Review
• Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
• National Prescribing Service
• National Prescribing Service for Health Professionals
• Prescription shopping program
• Warfarin Therapy Guidelines (contact the Drug Information Pharmacist at The Canberra Hospital—02 6244 2222 or Calvary Hospital—02 6201 6111 )

• Andrology Australia

General practice resources

• Mental Health Program
• Access to allied psychological services (ATAPS) program
• Mental Health Practice Guide—ACT Division of General Practice resource
• Becoming a provider of Focused Psychological Strategies (FPS)
• GP Care
• GP Psych Support
• Suicide prevention resources—ACT Health
• square—Suicide, QUestions, Answers and REsources (endorsed by GPSA)

Psychological outcome measures

• Clinical software templates—Mental Health
• Outcome measures for health professionals—beyondblue
• Outcome tools—Black Dog Institute Psychological Toolkit

Services for patients

• Carers ACT mental health carers services
• CatholicCare Canberra & Goulburn
• Directory of Mental Health Services in the ACT 
• Mental Health Foundation ACT
• Post-natal depression resources
• Personal Helpers and Mentors Service (PHaMs)

Other links & resources

• Better Access to Mental Health Care Initiative
• Better Outcomes in Mental Health initiative (BOiMH)  or Access to Allied Psychological Services Program (ATAPS)
  • Summary of ATAPS Guidelines 2010/11 – Introduction of a Tier Model
• Beyondblue
• Free Mental Health Skills Training Active Learning Module—ThinkGP Online Education

• Patient pathways mental health flow chart—Australian General Practice Network

Mental health policies

• ACT specific mental health policies

Australia-wide policies

• National Action Plan on Mental Health 2006–2011 (COAG)
• National Standards for Mental Health Services
• Fourth national mental health plan: an agenda for collaborative government action in mental health 2009–2014

• Transferring or closing a GP practice: What do I do with my patients health care records? ACTDGP fact sheet
• Health records access fees
• Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997—Information for record keepers about requests for access to records
• What do I need to do when I close a practice?—ACT Human Rights Commission

• ACTDGP Nursing in General Practice—Practice Guide
• Australian General Practice Network—Nursing in General Practice
• Nursing In General Practice Recruitment and Orientation Resource—A guide for General Practice, Practice Nurses & Network Member Organisations publication from the Australian General Practice Network (3.69 MB)

• Australian Pain Management Association
• Chronic Pain Australia
• National Pain Strategy—Pain Managment for all Australians

• ACT Health palliative care resources for GPs
• CareSearch palliative care knowledge network
• Guidelines for a Palliative Approach in Residential Aged Care (2.44 MB)
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines Summary
• Palliative Care Information flip chart (0.97 MB)
• Support Services - Bereavement Services Contacts - ACT and Region

• ACT Health Community Health Services directory
• ACT Health QEII Family Centre
• ACT playgroups
• Early Days brochure—Promoting the development of young children on the autism spectrum
• From Milk to More... Introducing foods to your baby ACT Health publication
• Children, Youth and Women's Health Service SA: Pregnancy, Parenting and child health advice
• Hey Dad: Fatherhood - The First 12 Months (2.01MB PDF)
• PANDSI (Post & Ante-Natal Depression Support & Information Inc.) Canberra, AustraliaPANDSI brochurePANDSI Recommended reading list
• PANDSI brochure
• PANDSI Recommended reading list
• SmartStart for Kids - GP - HELP
  • SmartStart - HELP referral form

• Dandenong Casey General Practice Association Policy and Procedure manaul

• Calculator for Indigenous Health Incentive (Moreton Bay General Practice Network website)
• General Practice Immunisation Incentives (GPII) Guidelines
• Information on the Practice Incentives Program (PIP) Indigenous Health Incentive
• Information on the PIP Practice Nurse Incentive (PNI)

• ACT smoking cessation resources
• Guidelines for preventative Activities in General Practice (The RACGP Red Book)
• Health Coaching Australia
• Putting prevention into Practice (the RACGP Green Book)

• Allied Health Professions Australia website
• be INFOrMED online training resource
• Drs Reference Site
• Graduate Certificate in Mental Health (General Practitioner) - scholarships available
• Medical Board of Australia
• Mental health skills & focussed psychological strategies training for GPs
• Professional Management Solutions
• Public Health Association of Australia website
• School of General Practice, Rural & Indigenous Health—ANU Medical School

• The RSI & Overuse Injury Association of the ACT

• Emotional health: The conspiracy of silence among Medical Practitioners
• General practice—a safe place: Tips and tools
• Keeping the doctor alive: A self care guidebook for medical practitioners—RACGP publication for purchase
• Professional Peer Support Program—RACGP Healthy doctor initiative
• Small group peer support for GPs treating mental health problems
• The beyondblue/RACGP Medical Workforce Initiative
• The Mental Health of Doctors: A systematic literature review August 2010—beyondblue (PDF)
• Doctors reluctant to seek help for depression and anxiety—beyondblue news
  

• Canberra Sexual Health Centre
• Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT

• ACT smoking cessation resources

• Domestic violence

• Case Study on Stroke Prevention—presentation by Associate Professor Christian Lueck

• Doctors for the Environment Australia
  • Climate Change Health Check 2020 report
  • Transport and health poster
  • Climate change and health poster
  • Biodiversity - The Web of Life: Vital for good health poster
  • How to make your business carbon neutral
  • The Importance of Biodiversity to your Life and Health
  • Healthy Patients, Healthy Planet
• GreenClinic guide
• Medical Observer GPs go Green
  • Low Carbon Doctors Initiative
  • Prescription for a healthier planet
  • Help yourself and help the planet—climate change patient hand out
• GreenPractice

• Doctor's Priority Line free telephone interpreting service—1300 655 820
• Interpreter service—131450 or ACT Health health care interpreters line—6205 3333
• Presentation on the Telephone Interpreter Service (TIS) by Dr Christine Phillips—June 2008 (111 GB)
• Health Translations Directory

• Menopause resources
• National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre—Health Professionals information
• PANDSI (Post & Ante-Natal Depression Support & Information Inc.) Canberra, Australia
  • PANDSI brochure
  • PANDSI Recommended reading list