Dear subscriber,

Welcome to this week's edition of Sydney Health Weekly! Central and Eastern Sydney PHN aims to make this newsletter your efficient one-stop-shop for primary health news and events within the central and eastern Sydney region. We are constantly working on making your news as targeted and relevant as possible and welcome your feedback to editor@cesphn.com.au.

EOI - Practice nurse in SESLHD region for immunisation working group

Central and Eastern Sydney PHN is seeking interest from practice nurses who would like to be involved in immunisation planning, review of strategies and attend two face to face meetings per year with the local Public Health Unit (Randwick).
Click here for more information.

Sutherland Shire GP Evening - Aged Care

Join us for an informative discussion on aged care and the services available in the Sutherland region. Speakers will include:

• A/Prof Peter Gonski, Geriatrician TSH/Southcare
• Dr Chris Dedousis, Geriatrician TSH/SGH
• Carmen Sanchez, Calvary Palliative Care Team
• Dr Iqbal Hussain

Click here for more information and to register.

Functional impacts of vision loss CPD event

Join us for an education session and live case study on how you can assist your patients with the functional impacts of vision loss at the CESPHN Office in Mascot on Wednesday 29 May. This CPD event cannot be missed!
Click here for more information.

EOI - Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee

Central and Eastern Sydney PHN is seeking Expressions of Interest for representatives to join the CESPHN Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee. The committee provides a forum for discussion of key policy changes and developments impacting the AOD sector and identifies suitable strategies and activities to achieve common goals in relation to improving local service provision and client outcomes.
Click here for more information.

GLAD (GP Liaison in Alcohol and other Drug Project)

GLAD is a multidisciplinary team, made up of doctors and nurses providing specialist advice to GPs for chronic and complex AOD issues. For referrals:

• South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (Sydney Hospital, Prince of Wales, St George & Sutherland Hospitals) - referral hotline: 1300 980 422
• Sydney Local Health District (RPAH, Concord, Canterbury Hospital), Phone: 02 9378 130 or: GP Liaison Nurse 0436 691 533
• St Vincent’s Hospital (Darlinghurst), Phone: 02 9361 8080 or GP Liaison Nurse: 0436 607 480

Click here for more information.

New occupational cancer e-learning module for GPs

In some Australian workplaces, employees are exposed to a diverse range of carcinogens at high concentrations and for long periods of time. It is essential GPs have the knowledge and skills to be able to assist patients in monitoring their health, identifying potential risks and be able to provide or direct patients to further information. Cancer Council has developed a 60 minute RACGP and ACRRM accredited e-learning module to increase GPs awareness of workplace carcinogens and cancers. 
Click here for more information.

Multicultural Primary Care Cancer Forum 

The Cancer Institute NSW and CESPHN is delighted to invite you to the inaugural Multicultural Primary Care Cancer Forum opened by Professor David Currows. The activity is has been accredited with 4 Category 2 points in RACGP QI & CPD Program for the 2017-2019 triennium.
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Free webinars to earn CPD Points 

To further up-skill GPs, the team of psychiatrists from the GP Psychiatry Support Line are screening a series of webinars. These are accredited for professional development points by the RACGP, as well as the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. These activities are designed for GPs, provided for free, and has already proved to be popular. In the second webinar, Professor Sadanand Rajkumar joins Dr Martin Cohen to discuss depression and mental health in older people.  
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Rent a fridge during influenza season!

Practices who do not have the capacity to accommodate storage for the extra influenza vaccines during flu season have the option to rent a fridge and data logger for three months. 
Click here for more information.

Children and Families Hub launches in Rockdale to improve local educational outcomes

An innovative partnership between local community, education and health organisations has launched a unique service to help address developmental challenges in children aged under five years in the Rockdale area. GPs wishing to refer to the service or enquiring about child developmental screening can find more information here. 
Click here for more information.

Tricks of the BMI trade

Accurate recording of BMI is widely regarded as an appropriate risk measure for our patients. According to our May POLAR data, only 44.2 per cent of CESPHN's 573,000 RACGP active patients have a BMI recorded in their medical record. We encourage all our practices to share their ideas on how we can improve our statistics across the whole of CESPHN. Dr Tarun Chauhan from Caritas Practice in Riverwood shared some of their suggestions.
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Survey: Help to better understand client decision making needs

Are you a clinician who sees patients/clients for problematic alcohol use and comorbid depression? Researchers at the University of Sydney are surveying clinicians who manage/treat people with problematic alcohol use and comorbid depression to gain clinical insights into their patients/clients’ treatment decision-making needs, and to inform innovative decision-support tools. 
Click here to access the survey.

Senior Medical Officer position available

Balmain hospital has a Senior Medical Officer - GP Casualty position available on a temporary part time basis. You will be providing senior medical services and assisting the Director in managing Balmain GP Casualty and HITH.
Click here for more information.

SESLHD Service Directory Survey

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is developing a user-friendly directory of SESLHD services. This will be provided online and available to staff, patients, health professionals and the community. The service directory will contain detailed information which will make it easier to find, contact and access our health care services. The project is being led by SESLHD’s Integrated Care Unit, in partnership with key stakeholders such as the NSW Ministry of Health. It is anticipated the service directory will be available to the public before the end of 2019. We would like all stakeholders to have the opportunity to have in a say in the planning of the project and highlight what staff, health providers and the community need when searching for a service. The survey will be used as the first primary source of information to begin work towards what kind of information will be gathered and displayed in the service directory.
Click here for more information.

Functional impacts of vision loss CPD event

Join us for an education session and live case study on how you can assist your patients with the functional impacts of vision loss at the CESPHN Office in Mascot on Wednesday 29 May. This CPD event cannot be missed!
Click here for more information.

EOI - Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee

Central and Eastern Sydney PHN is seeking Expressions of Interest for representatives to join the CESPHN Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee. The committee provides a forum for discussion of key policy changes and developments impacting the AOD sector and identifies suitable strategies and activities to achieve common goals in relation to improving local service provision and client outcomes.
Click here for more information.

Survey: Help to better understand client decision making needs

Are you a clinician who sees patients/clients for problematic alcohol use and comorbid depression? Researchers at the University of Sydney are surveying clinicians who manage/treat people with problematic alcohol use and comorbid depression to gain clinical insights into their patients/clients’ treatment decision-making needs, and to inform innovative decision-support tools. 
Click here to access the survey.

SESLHD Service Directory Survey

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is developing a user-friendly directory of SESLHD services. This will be provided online and available to staff, patients, health professionals and the community. The service directory will contain detailed information which will make it easier to find, contact and access our health care services. The project is being led by SESLHD’s Integrated Care Unit, in partnership with key stakeholders such as the NSW Ministry of Health. It is anticipated the service directory will be available to the public before the end of 2019. We would like all stakeholders to have the opportunity to have in a say in the planning of the project and highlight what staff, health providers and the community need when searching for a service. The survey will be used as the first primary source of information to begin work towards what kind of information will be gathered and displayed in the service directory.
Click here for more information.

Innovation Week 2019 - registrations open!

Innovation Week is held in June of each year as an opportunity to showcase services, share ideas, network and to collaborate to continue to improve patient care. The theme this year is "Imagine, Transform, Lead" and will focus on experience. Innovation Week will be held from 24-30 June 2019.
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Mood Active free well-being workout programs

Exercise your way to better mental health! Free places are available in the upcoming "4-week Well-being Workout" programs. Each session is 2.5 hours of motivation/resilience strategies followed by 60 minutes of exercise class. Programs are now running at Rockdale (new location), The Rocks, and Camperdown. An eight week program is also available, refer to the website for all locations and dates.
Enquiries: info@moodactive.com.au; ph 0412 190 842

EOI - Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee

Central and Eastern Sydney PHN is seeking Expressions of Interest for representatives to join the CESPHN Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee. The committee provides a forum for discussion of key policy changes and developments impacting the AOD sector and identifies suitable strategies and activities to achieve common goals in relation to improving local service provision and client outcomes.
Click here for more information.

SESLHD Service Directory Survey

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is developing a user-friendly directory of SESLHD services. This will be provided online and available to staff, patients, health professionals and the community. The service directory will contain detailed information which will make it easier to find, contact and access our health care services. The project is being led by SESLHD’s Integrated Care Unit, in partnership with key stakeholders such as the NSW Ministry of Health. It is anticipated the service directory will be available to the public before the end of 2019. We would like all stakeholders to have the opportunity to have in a say in the planning of the project and highlight what staff, health providers and the community need when searching for a service. The survey will be used as the first primary source of information to begin work towards what kind of information will be gathered and displayed in the service directory.
Click here for more information.

Children and Families Hub launches in Rockdale to improve local educational outcomes

An innovative partnership between local community, education and health organisations has launched a unique service to help address developmental challenges in children aged under five years in the Rockdale area. 
Click here for more information.

As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts. If you would like to submit an article or have suggestions on content you would be interested in reading, please email editor@cesphn.com.au.