Capital Health Network

Nonspecific chest pain remains an enduring challenge for GPs. When should patients be referred to the emergency department, who requires urgent assessment, and how should referrals be made? How can we differentiate cardiac from non-cardiac causes? What can GPs do initially to stabilise patients or commence treatment for urgent presentations, and which patients can be safely managed without an emergency department visit?

Please join Capital Health Network and Dr Mike Hall, Director of Emergency at North Canberra Hospital, to discuss this important topic.

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A certificate of attendance will be provided to participants who attend the live webinar. Attendees are welcome to self-report CPD hours to their education dashboard (Educational Activity: 1.5 hours). The webinar will also be published on Capital Health Network’s YouTube channel.

Join Capital Health Network and the ACT Chief Psychiatrist, Professor Anthony Cidoni for a webinar focusing on GP initiated emergency detention orders. This webinar will explore when and how to appropriately schedule patients. It will unpack the clinical steps, forms and legal requirements that GPs need to follow to comply with the Mental Health Act and to respect patient human rights.

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A certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees of the live webinar. Attendees are welcome to self-report CPD hours to their education dashboard, (Educational Activity 1.5 hours). The webinar will be posted online on Capital Health Network’s YouTube.

Breathlessness is a common symptom for life limiting illnesses such as COPD and Heart Failure. It is frightening, distressing and disabling, not only for the person experiencing it, but for family, friends, carers and healthcare professionals.

The good news is, there are things we can do to help manage breathlessness.

The causes of breathlessness are multidimensional and therefore the treatment also needs to be multidimensional.

The Breathing, Thinking, Functional Model (BTF) is a multidimensional evidence-based model to help assess and manage chronic breathlessness. It was developed by the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service and conceptualises the emotional and behavioural responses to breathlessness. https://www.btf.phpc.cam.ac.uk/what-is-the-btf-model/the-cambridge-breathlessness-intervention-service/

Speaker:

Mary Roberts (Clinical Nurse Consultant: Respiratory Ambulatory Care, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Fellow)

Topics Included:

• Breathlessness
• Prevalence and pathophysiology
• Assessment and validated tools
• Pharmacological
• Non pharmacological
• Pulmonary rehabilitation
• Models of Care

Panel discussion – current enablers and challenges & moving forward

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Note- Morning Tea, lunch & afternoon tea will be provided

The ACT Maternity Services Education Day is back!

Capital Health Network, together with a multidisciplinary team from Canberra Health Services (CHS), invites you to attend a face-to-face education event on:

This full-day program will deliver practical, up-to-date learning relevant to GPs and primary care providers, covering key aspects of maternity care across the continuum.

Program Topics Include:

1. CHS service update and maternity models of care, including the maternity service intake process
2. Digital Health Record update
3. High-risk pregnancy management and Foetal Medicine Unit (FMU) eligibility
4. Obesity, BMI and weight gain in pregnancy, and postnatal weight loss
5. Interpretation of abnormal ultrasound results for GPs (including 20-week scans and uterine artery impedance)
6. Infectious disease exposure in pregnancy
7. Cardiac complications in pregnancy (e.g. valvular disease, syncope, arrhythmias)
8. Endocrine conditions:
9. Gestational diabetes
10. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
11. Thyroid disorders
12. Challenging presentations and deliveries:
13. VBAC
14. Placenta accreta
15. Placenta praevia
16. Breech presentation
17. Postpartum haemorrhage
18. Pelvic floor recovery and rectus diastasis

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Join us for a valuable day of education, up-skilling and peer networking.

Morning tea, buffet lunch and afternoon tea will be provided.

Join CHN and accredited education providers Curijo as they help you take the next steps in your Cultural Learning Journey. This face-to-face event will cover vital topics to support primary care professionals and staff members in providing culturally safe and responsive care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients.

Topics discussed include:

• Cultures, kinship, and family structures
• Historical overview
• Impacts of history
• Trauma awareness
• Overcoming bias
• Effective communication
• Cultural safety
• Reconciliation and accountability
• Community engagement

Presenters

Tina McGhie – Chief Operating Officer & Delivery Lead at Curijo

Event Registration: From 5:00 PM – Main Event: Starts at 5:30 PM

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This event will be fully catered and can be self-logged as 2.5 hours of CPD, including meeting the culturally safe practice requirements for registered medical professionals.

About Practice Connect

Join us at Practice Connect, Capital Health Network’s quarterly educational and networking event designed for Practice Managers, Practice Nurses and other primary health care professionals to upskill, refresh their knowledge and connect with the primary care community. All registrations include a complimentary meal on arrival and an opportunity to network with like-minded health care professionals.

The Topic

Digital Health is rapidly changing the way general practice delivers care. Over the past year, many new initiatives have been rolled out by the ACT Government and the Australian Digital Health Agency to help general practices manage their workload, increase efficiency and enhance patient outcomes.

Capital Health Network invites ACT Practice Managers, Nurses and other primary health care professionals to an engaging and practical evening, exploring the latest digital health innovations and how they can be embedded into everyday workflows. You’ll learn what’s new, what’s changing and what you can implement now.

The second half of the session will be an interactive, hands-on POLAR training experience. This is a chance to upskill and go beyond the basics of POLAR – from supporting digital health, to improving patient records, predicting vaccine ordering patterns and driving quality improvement. The session will cover concepts in POLAR that aren’t covered in CHN’s foundational training, so you can understand what POLAR has to offer.

We encourage attendees to bring their own device to follow along and apply their learning.

Learning Objectives

You’ll learn how to:

1. Understand how DHR Link works and how to organise access for your practice
2. Understand Provider Connect Australia and how it simplifies sharing practice updates with partners
3. Navigate My Health Record, use it to view MyMedicare registrations and understand updates to Better Faster Access
4. Apply POLAR skills for digital health, data quality and practice improvement (bring your own device!)

• Understand what the Walrus decision-making tool is (it’s free!)
• Upload health summaries to My Health Record for the ePIP
• Identify and understand patients using Telehealth
• Record allergies in line with the RACGP 6th Edition requirements
• Discover immunisation trends
• Explore case examples for QI activities

What to Bring:

• A laptop if you would like to follow along during POLAR training

Speakers:

Russelle Trinidad – Senior Manager Primary Care Integration, Capital Health Network Katerina Levantis – Quality Improvement Project Officer, Capital Health Network

Photo & Testimonial Consent By attending this event, you consent to being photographed and/or recorded for promotional, educational, and communications purposes by CHN. You also agree that any quotes or feedback you provide during the event may be used as testimonials on our resources. If you do not wish to be photographed or have your comments used as a testimonial, please inform our team.

CPD Attendees are encouraged to self-report CPD hours to their education dashboard (Educational Activity: 1.5 hours). A certificate of attendance will be provided after the event.

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Cancellations As registrations include a complimentary meal and spaces are strictly limited at our Practice Connect event. If you are unable to attend, please advise our team by contacting events@chnact.org.au or primarycare@chnact.org.au. This will allow your seat and meal to be reallocated.