Topics:

• Overview of privacy laws and how they apply to your organisation

• The difference between personal, sensitive and health information

• The documents, systems and checks you should put in place today to protect personal information and comply with privacy laws

• How to legally collect, use, disclose, handle and store personal information

• Responding to requests for personal information from courts, police and others · Individuals’ rights to access their own files and have information corrected

• The new notifiable data breaches scheme and what to do if there is a privacy complaint or breach

• Top tips for complying with privacy law

Audience: Community Services Organisations, Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol, Health
Speaker: Mae Tanner – Lawyer and Trainer
Date: Thursday 21 March 2019
Time: 8.30am registration, 9.00am-12.00pm
Cost: $25
Location: Griffith Exies, Jondaryan Avenue Griffith

Topics:

• Updates in Breast Imaging (by clinicians for clinicians)

• “What is my risk of breast cancer?”

• Preventative strategy for breast cancer

Audience: GPs and GP registrars
Speaker: Dr Andrew Thompson, MBBS (Hons), B Sc, MS (Endocrine), FRACS
Date: Wednesday 20 March 2019
Time: 6.00pm registration and dinner for 6.30pm start – 8.00pm finish
Venue: Elevation Restaurant Hilltops Retreat, Wombat Road Young

Topics:

• Overview of privacy laws and how they apply to your organisation

• The difference between personal, sensitive and health information

• The documents, systems and checks you should put in place today to protect personal information and comply with privacy laws

• How to legally collect, use, disclose, handle and store personal information

• Responding to requests for personal information from courts, police and others · Individuals’ rights to access their own files and have information corrected

• The new notifiable data breaches scheme and what to do if there is a privacy complaint or breach

• Top tips for complying with privacy law

Audience: Community Services Organisations, Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol, Health
Speaker: Mae Tanner – Lawyer and Trainer
Date: Wednesday 20 March 2019
Time: 8.30am registration, 9.00am-12.00pm
Cost: $25
Location: Rules Club, Fernleigh Road Wagga

Topics:

• Overview of privacy laws and how they apply to your organisation

• The difference between personal, sensitive and health information

• The documents, systems and checks you should put in place today to protect personal information and comply with privacy laws

• How to legally collect, use, disclose, handle and store personal information

• Responding to requests for personal information from courts, police and others · Individuals’ rights to access their own files and have information corrected

• The new notifiable data breaches scheme and what to do if there is a privacy complaint or breach

• Top tips for complying with privacy law

Audience: Community Services Organisations, Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol, Health
Speaker: Mae Tanner – Lawyer and Trainer
Date: Tuesday 19 March 2019
Time: 8.30am registration, 9.00am-12.00pm
Cost: $25
Location: Young Golf Club, William Street Young

LifeSpan Murrumbidgee will be hosting Mindframe Plus training for GPs in Wagga on Thursday 14 March 2019. Please see attached invite for further details and to register.

The workshop will focus on the importance of exercise and referrals. It will give participants the confidence to engage their patients in a conversation about physical activity, and that they have the resources and referral pathways they need to support long term behaviour change in their patients.  

Dr Kym Collins, VMO Sexual Health MLHD and Teddy Cook, Manager Regional Outreach Development ACON will be presenting to GPs and health care workers.

The session will cover understanding trans and gender diverse people, an introduction to gender affirming healthcare, treatment options and referral pathways

The 2019 Antenatal Shared Care Orientation & Update workshop will be held in two sessions:

Session 1: Orientation to the Riverina Antenatal Shared Care program

Specifically for GPs who have patients that may deliver at Wagga Base Hospital and would like to participate in the shared care program. GPs who attended training in 2016/2017/2018 do not need to attend this session. Those who attended the workshops in 2013/2014/2015 will need to attend the whole day if they wish to remain listed on the Antenatal Shared Care Brochure. This session will be presented by local Obstetricians, GP Obstetricians and Midwives.

Session 1: Antenatal Orientation

8.30am – 1.05pm: (8 Category 2 CPD points) (if attending all day 40 Category 1 points)

• Orientation to the Antenatal Shared Care Program & agreed levels of risk in pregnancy

• Resources for Antenatal Shared Care Program - checklist and brochure

• The Antenatal Clinic “booking in” visit current approaches to birthing, skin to skin, pain relief

• 1st Trimester Antenatal Screening for foetal abnormalities,

• Dating of pregnancy & obstetric ultrasound, Non-invasive pre natal testing

• Obesity, diabetes & nutrition, hypertension, anti-depressants, vaccinations and thyroid

Session 2: Antenatal Update

FOR ALL GPs (including GPs who have previously attended orientation training and GPs attending Session 1).

1.45 pm – 4.00pm: 2 hours (4 Category 2 CPD points or combined with Session 1 is eligible for 40 Category 1 points).

• HealthPathways

• Advising patients on nutrition and vitamins in pregnancy

• Screening early for ferritin and iron, early diagnosis and treatment

• Mental health referrals

• Vaginal birth after caesarean
  

Please click here to see Registration Flyer

Register for Antenatal Orientation and Update (All Day Session)

Register for Antenatal Update (Afternoon Session Only)

Kim Poyner from Medicoach will be presenting to GPs and practice managers on the chronic disease items numbers and billing.

Kim Poyner from Medicoach will be presenting to GPs and practice managers on the chronic disease items numbers and billing.

Wednesday 27 February 2019 6.30pm-9.30pm

Kim Poyner from Medicoach will be presenting to GPs and practice managers on the chronic disease items numbers and billing.

Tuesday 26 February 2019

6.30pm - 9.30pm

Dominic Gallagher, director of the CBT Institute will be presenting to GPs and service providers on improving access to psychological therapies

Orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Matthew Howard will be presenting Common shoulder problems in Young.

Register here