Thursday 23 September

Friday 24 September

Saturday 24 September

Thursday 23 September	Description
DGP Accreditation 'Masterclass' 7.00am-8.30am Accreditation for beginners breakfast Riverbank 2/3 8.30am-12.00pm Advanced Accreditation Seminar Hall C 12.00pm-1.00pm Lunch Riverbank 2/3	Being fit comes at a cost. Usually that cost is energy and time. Being a Division Liaison Officer is no different. Earning the privilege to enter a practice and assist them with accreditation takes work and you need to attend more than just a Risky Business workshop. AGPAL has created a national Masterclass to run before the ADGP Forum 2004 specifically for Division staff in September. Be prepared for an interactive forum about conducting mock survey visits and making judgements about meeting the Standards.
HealthConnect workshop for participating Divisions of General Practice and State Based Organisations 9am-12.30pm Lecture Theatre, State Library, North Terrace, Adelaide	The Department of Health and Ageing in conjunction with participating Divisions of General Practice, State Based Organisations and HealthConnect Trial Managers will be holding a meeting to discuss national implementation of HealthConnect.  Participants will be invited to reflect and discuss their experience in the HealthConnect trials which will provide an opportunity to contribute to national HealthConnect implementation activity.
Friday 24 September 2004
Chronic Disease Self-Management Breakfast 7.15 - 8.30am Riverbank 2/3	Introducing CLIMATE: A Chronic Disease Patient Self Management System for Busy Clinicians A breakfast, co-sponsored by the ADGP, the University of NSW at St Vincents Hospital and the World Health Organisation's Collaborating Center for Evidence for Health Policy. Every day GPs see a mix of well people with intercurrent illness, people with chronic conditions that require long term management, people who are very sick and usually comorbid, as well as the frail and elderly.  But busy GPs find it difficult to spend time repeatedly educating people about their illness, and patients cannot do what is right unless they understand their treatment.  CLIMATE is a computer-based aid to patient self-management.  It is a not for profit initiative of the University of New South Wales and the World Health Organisation Collaborating Center for Evidence for Health Policy, Sydney. CLIMATE has self-management education modules for half the people with chronic conditions ? this group generates 40 per cent of consultations. This breakfast will introduce CLIMATE and showcase CLIMATE in practice through the presentation of a case study.  Participants will have the opportunity to interact with a panel of GPs and CLIMATE developers.  Tuition in CLIMATE will be available at the Pfizer Internet Cafe in the exhibition hall throughout the day.
Divisions Chair/Medical Directors Lunch 12.30-1.45pm Riverbank 2/3	This is a networking opportunity for Division Chairs and Medical Directors. Participants must have booked their attendance in advance via the Forum Registration Form.
Saturday 25 September
Evolving Partnerships: The National Prescribing Service and Divisions of General Practice Breakfast 7.30 - 8.30am Riverbank 1	This workshop will present both the evolution and the current format of the partnership between the National Prescribing Service (NPS) and Divisions of General Practice, which delivers Quality Use of Medicine (QUM) programs across the country.   Attendees will have the opportunity to review and discuss: The history of the NPS and Divisions partnership The current partnership principles The successful elements of the partnership and achievements to date The lessons learnt The range of NPS interventions delivered via Divisions of General Practice Outline the NPS vision for the future of its partnerships with Divisions and the planned strategies aimed at its long term sustainability
Cmebookings.com tutorial - what's going on? 11.30am -12.30pm Internet Cafe Supported by Pfizer.	Cmebookings.com is not just a shared events management and calendar system for Divisions. The tutorial will give attendees an understanding of how the service can be used as an infrastructure tool to increase efficiency, as a potential service for their members and as a strategic tool to allow Divisions to work smarter. The hands-on tutorial will allow participants to take the service for a test drive and in doing so gain an understanding in how it can benefit Divisions and GPs. The tutorial will showcase the improvements made to the website in the past twelve months including points management and the group bookings facility. GPs and Division staff are welcome to attend.
Youth Launch 12.45 - 2.00pm Riverbank 2/3	Supporting Australia's Young People: Launch of the National Divisions Youth Alliance Resources and new MindMatters Divisions For the last three years the National Divisions Youth Alliance (NDYA) has been working with Divisions and GPs to support the health and well being of Australia's young people. An on-line GP training package and Divisional resource kit are the culmination of this work. More recently, the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Strategies have funded the MindMatters Plus GP Initiative. This Initiative involves demonstration Divisions who are working with their local high schools to provide mental health education, enhanced referral pathways and improved linkages with community services in order to better respond to young people with high mental health support needs. In conjunction with other project partners, the NDYA resources and new MindMatters Divisions will be launched at this event.
GPs4MeN, the national GPs' network for men's health 1.00pm - 2.00pm Meeting Room 2	GPs4MeN (the national GPs' network for men's health): a new direction in men's health Join us at the inaugural meeting of GPs4MeN, a network of Divisions and GPs formed in 2003 to respond to the vacuum in Men's Health. 22 Divisions of General Practice belong to GPs4MeN, as well as over 60 individual GPs.

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