Summary of Programs & Projects:

Primary Prevention & Health Promotion

• Supporting practices to address chronic disease
• Activity-SNAP and provide lifestyle advice to patients
• Enhancing awareness of local service providers who can assist patients with lifestyle/risk factor modification
• Promoting evidence based practice in screening for diabetes, cervical cancer etc
• Maintaining and improving the Division's immunisation rate.

Disease Management and Secondary Prevention

• Enhancing practice capacity for best practice, effective and planned care for patients with chronic diseases
• Enhancing awareness of local service providers, and promoting multi-disciplinary care for patients with chronic diseases
• Providing additional mental health allied health services in high-need areas through the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOMHC) allied health project

Quality in General Practice

• Promoting and supporting practice accreditation
• Participating in the CALM (Conflict and Litigation Minimisation) risk management program
• Providing education and quality improvement activities for GPs and practice staff, including the promotion & establishment of small group learning across geographic regions
• Providing local health needs & service delivery data to practices for the purposes of planning and quality improvement
• Providing NPS Quality Use of Medicines activities
• Promoting collaboration between pharmacists and GPs through the use of Home Medicines Reviews

Access to Primary Care

• Supporting GPs and local aged care facilities to improve the quality of health care for residents of aged care
• Facilities
• Supporting GPs and other local health services to improve the quality of health care for young people
• Undertaking a trial of alternative After Hours services in the Macedon Ranges region
• Providing MAHS (More Allied Health Services) services in rural Community Health Services throughout the
• Division
• Supporting the recruitment and retention of suitable trainees, registrars, oversees trained doctors and other GPs throughout the Division area

Page Updated: February 2005

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