Enhancing Paediatrics in Primary Care
The Enhancing Paediatrics in Primary Care (EPiPC) program provides support to General Practitioners to care for children within the Murrumbidgee region who are experiencing behavioural and/or developmental concerns. This program employs a Community Paediatrician to provide an advisory support service to help GPs identify and appropriately manage these children within the primary care setting. The program aims to increase GP confidence and skill in providing initial developmental screening and assessment at an earlier stage for children they see in their practice. Recommendations regarding appropriate interventions and therapy that can be initiated in the primary care setting will be provided by the Community Paediatrician.
The email support service is available to all GPs in the Murrumbidgee region for specific queries regarding children with behavioural and/or developmental concerns. For email support from the Community Paediatrician, GPs can complete the following proforma and fax or email their query to the following: FAX to (02) 69339268 or EMAIL to MLHD-CCH@health.nsw.gov.au.
If no response received within 2 weeks, please contact <MLHD-CCH@health.nsw.gov.au> directly to ensure Clinical Query has been received.
Educational activities
A core component for the EPiPC program is Primary care enhancement with a focus on building the capability and capacity of all general practices across our region in providing their patients with paediatric care through various education and training activities.
Resources
Online child health learning programs
SLHD Well Child eLearning
Sydney Child Health Program (SCHP)
Other resources
NDIS ECEI
MLHD child and family and allied health services
Milestone checklist
Nocturnal Enuresis Resource Kit
Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
HealthPathways
Clinical guidelines
Request pages
Medical
Allied health
Webinar resources
Webinar 1 - Developmental screening
Neurodevelopmental screening tools
YouTube clips
Serve and return
Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children
Webinar 2 - Preventing childhood obesity
View the webinar here.
NSW Health Healthy Kids for Professionals resources
Assessment flow chart
Conversation starters
Go4Fun
GetHealthy NSW
Healthy Living
Peditools online growth calculators
APEG growth charts
EPiPC working group members
Dr Lahiru Amarasena – Community Paediatrician, MLHD
Dr Marietjie Van Der Merwe – Kooringal Medical Centre
Dr Shahzad Arshed – Hay Medical Centre
Dr Rachel James – Deniliquin Medical Centre
Dr Maya Eamus – Gundagai Medical Centre
Dr Tatiana Pavlovskaya – Leeton Family Clinic
This program is jointly funded by the Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network and Murrumbidgee Local Health District and is an initiative resulting from the joint Maternal and Child Health Strategy.