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The Department of Health and Aged Care has announced major changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for chronic disease management from 1 November 2024. The changes recommended by the MBS Review Taskforce, are ‘the first major change to the framework in almost 20 years’ and includ...
Date released: Friday 12 July 2024 Gold Coasters are being urged to keep up to date with their COVID-19 boosters and be better protected through the rest of winter by immunising against the flu. With 2666 cases recorded in Queensland in the last week of June, it’s suggested that everyone makes an ...
Bond University Health and Wellness Clinic (BUHAWC) is a specialised teaching and training facility where Allied Health students undertake practical internships under the direct supervision of fully-qualified and accredited health professionals as well as academic experts. BUHAWC is committed to off...
If your practice is planning to participate in the General Practice in Aged Care Incentive, you may be considering the practicalities of how to sign up your patients living in an aged care home for MyMedicare. There are several approaches to how your practice can do this and we’ve provided a few o...
Start the Shingrix® conversation and shield your patients from shingles today The shingles vaccine Shingrix® replaced Zostavax® on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) on 1 November 2023. A two-dose course of Shingrix® is available for free for eligible people most at risk of complications fr...
On Monday 1 July 2024 the new General Practice in Aged Care Incentive commenced, providing incentive payments to general practices and general practitioners for delivering regular visits and care planning to permanent residents living in residential aged care. This may result in some changes...
Training is available to help aged care workers respond to dementia-related behavioural emergencies. With support from Dementia Training Australia and the Australian Government, Dementia Australia is offering a new, free virtual reality training workshop called D-Esc. The workshop covers: how to rec...
Dr Michael Pearcy attended the ‘Dementia in Residential Aged Care Forum: Navigating the Challenging Impacts’ event hosted by GCPHN in partnership with Gold Coast Health in May. These were his key takeaways from the range of topics that were discussed throughout the event by a range of speakers, ...
On Monday 1 July the new General Practice in Aged Care Incentive (link 1) commenced, providing incentive payments to practices and general practitioners for delivering regular visits and care planning to older people living in residential aged care. Eligible practices that meet the definitio...
Legislative changes introduced on 1 March 2024 require all vaccination providers to complete the ‘Vaccine type’ field when reporting vaccines administered to the AIR. There are four options available under the ‘Vaccine type’ field – as follows: Vaccine type Example Antenatal Vaccin...
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