Enhancing Paediatrics in Primary Care

The Enhancing Paediatrics in Primary Care (EPiPC) program provides single advice 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 support GPs within the primary care setting. The EPiPC program aims to increase GP confidence and skill in providing initial behaviour/development screening and recommendations at an earlier stage for children they see in their practice. Recommendations may include appropriate screening tools, interventions and therapy that can be initiated in the primary care setting. Overall, we hope to increase continuity and collaboration to ultimately improve the journey for families and children with behaviour/development concerns.

EPiPC email support

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.

Guidelines

Clinical guidelines

Request pages

Medical

Allied health

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.

EPiPC working group members

  • Dr Lahiru Amarasena – Community Paediatrician, MLHD

  • Dr Shahzad Arshed – Hay Medical Centre

  • Dr Rachel James – Deniliquin Medical Centre

  • Dr Maya Eamus – Gundagai Medical Centre

  • Dr Tatiana Pavlovskaya – Leeton Family Clinic

  • Dr Khanna Jyoti – Boorowa Hospital Medical Centre

  • Dr Elsayed Ahmed – Fitroy Medical Centre

  • Dr Roderick Bond – Lockhart Medical Centre

  • Dr Carla Flynn – Nova Health Co

  • Dr Ramanpreet Gill – Vecare Health Holbrook

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.

CONTACT

Karly Pollard

Contract Manager
karly.pollard@mphn.org.au
Phone (02) 69 233 127