Summary of Programs & Projects

• Aged Care GP Panels Initiative
• Consumer Participation
  • Community Consultative Committee
  • Community Forums
• Diabetes
  • TAADIS (a regional electronic health record for GP patients with diabetes)
  • GP referral of high risk TAADIS patients to Exercise Physiologists (pilot project)
  • Computer Assisted Survey Technology project providing nutrition assessment for patients at risk of diabetes
• Education
  • Continuing Professional Development for GPs
  • Education and training for practice staff
  • Medical education (undergraduate, GP Registrars, Graduate Medical School)
• IM/IT
  • joint initiatives with Illawarra Health for GP access to inpatient health information
  • Clinical IT in Aged Care Product Trial "The Introduction of Electronic Prescribing in Residential Aged Care Facilities"
  • IT Helpdesk
• Immunisation
• Integration
  • general practice with other primary health care providers and the acute care system (networked primary health care models)
  • Systems approach to chronic disease management within practices
  • Practice management support
  • Illawarra Leg Ulcer Clinic
• Mental Health
  • Access to Allied Health Services project (Clinical Psychologists)
  • Youth Health Program including "Building Bridges" (GPs and other care providers teaching lessons in local high schools, addressing youth help seeking)
  • Comorbidity Project
• Practice Nursing
  • Contracting Registered Nurses to general practices
  • Orientation and training of general practice nurses
  • Practice Nurse Network
• Quality Use of Medicines
  • NPS Program
  • HMR Program

Page Updated: December 2004