Program of events...

Thursday 20 November

Friday 21 November

Saturday 22 November

Sunday 23 November

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Thursday 20 November  Time Session Title 6.00-8.00pm Registration Desk Open 6.30-8.30pm Welcome Reception Opening of Trade Exhibition and Poster Display Announcement of Division Achievement Awards

Friday 21 November   Session No./Time Session Title Topic Speaker 09.00-10.30 Official Welcome Inaugural John Aloizos Medal   Dr Rob Walters, ADGP Chair   Keynote Address    Dr Peter Ellyard 11.15 - 12.30 Guest Panel Fundholding and Divisions - Now or Never? Head, Primary Care Division, DoHA Dr Paul McCormack, Pegasus Health Professor Gavin Mooney, Curtin University Professor Justin Beilby, Adelaide University   Program Seminar Mental Health  13.45 - 15.00 Concurrent Workshops Building evaluation into programs Facilitator: Professor Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS     Quality improvement collaboratives for general practice Facilitators: Mr Bill Newton, GPDV Dr Jan Davies, National Institute of Clinical Studies     Making sense and dollars - complete primary care Facilitator: Dr Trina Gregory     Sustaining Divisions - growing the business beyond the grants Facilitator: Ms Liesel Wett, ADGP     Mastering the art of meetings Facilitator: Ms Helen Besly, Rowland Communications   Program Seminar  Chronic Disease Management  15.30 - 17.00 Open Forum Now the Review is over - where to for the Divisions Network? Mr Philip Davies, DoHA Mr John Mero, Vision Method Outcome Ms Anne McGill, BNDGP Dr Rob Walters, ADGP Facilitator: Dr Steve Clark, ADGP 17.30 - 18.30   ADGP Annual General Meeting    Saturday 22 November Session No./Time Session Title Topic  Speaker 08.45-09.20 Minister's Address     The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Minister for Health & Ageing 09.20-09.30 NACCHO/ADGP MoU Launch   Mr Henry Councillor, NACCHO Dr Robert Walters, ADGP 09.30-10.00 Guest Speaker Grassroots research - taking it out of cottonwool Dr Larry Green, Director, Robert Graham Center in Policy Studies for Family Practice and Primary Care   10.00-10.45 Guest Panel   Dr Richard Watts, The Investigator Clinic Dr Geoff Mitchell, University of Qld Dr Catherine Harding, Riverina DGP   Questions/Discussion           9.45-11.00 Program Seminar National Divisions Youth Alliance  11.45 - 13.00 Concurrent Seminars Education and training for future primary care delivery Assoc. Professor Dennis Pashen, ARHEN Dr Michael Wong, GPRA Dr Larry Green     Building on past lessons: managing knowledge in Divisions Dr Tori Wade / Ms Eleanor Jackson-Bowers, PARC Mr Roy Batterham, CBDGP Assoc. Professor Libby Kalucy, PHCRIS     "Nanobots, pharmacogenomics and stem cells" - where is research taking primary care? Professor Richard Head, Professor Mohan Krishnamoorthy, CSIRO Professor Sohail Inayatulla     Caring for Indigenous Australians - how can Divisions do it better? Mr Henry Councillor, NACCHO Dr Chris Harrison Dr Louis Peachey, Dr Mark Wenitong, Australian Indigenous Doctors Association      The future of corporate governance in Divisions - who should be on the Board? Dr Jonathon Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham, UK (via videoconference)Dr Susan Wearne, CADPHC Ms Helen Hopkins, Consumers Health Forum Ms Susan Rix, Partner, Business Advisory Services, BDO Kendalls   Program Seminar Immunisation   14.00 - 15.15 Concurrent Paper Presentations Primary Mental Health Care 1. Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Program - working both ways, Top End DGP. 2. Psychiatric nurses in a GP setting, Bendigo & District DGP. 3. Collaboration between general practitioners and psychologists: a win-win situation for clients, GPDNT. 4. Wheatbelt support services -keeping communities 'alive & well' in rural WA, Central Wheatbelt DGP.     Quality Use of Medicines/Aged Care 1. EDQUM - Beyond QUM, Canning DGP. 2. Factors for success of a consortia approach to implementing national quality use of medicine (QUM) initiatives in Rural Queensland, Qld Medical Support Agency. 3. How the Adelaide North East DGP has built relationships to focus on the future of aged care, Adelaide North East DGP. 4. Home Medicines Review: Issues and implementation in General Practice, Toowoomba District DGP.     CDM/Practice Nursing 1. Building practice capacity to deliver the chronic disease management program, Northern Sydney DGP. 2. Engaging GPs in chronic disease self-management programs, Whitehorse DGP. 3. Getting started in Aboriginal health: an urban experience, Canning DGP. 4. Diagnostic imaging referral - a divisional case study in collaboration to develop decision support systems for General Practice, West Vic DGP.        Child and Youth Health/Immunisation 1. Immunisation and practice systems: a regional approach to Division-led change, Monash DGP. 2. Youth health initiative - "damage Control Expo", Perth and Hills DGP. 3. Delivering integrated primary health care in remote SW Qld with meaningful youth participation, Southern Qld Rural DGP. 4. General practitioner youth worker referral voucher pilot, Northern Rivers DGP.     After Hours Primary Care 1. Ulverstone Virtual Amalgamation Project, TGPD. 2. The Ipswich & West Moreton Division's Journey to the new GP after hours clinic and beyond, Ipswich & West Moreton DGP. 3. Rural Healthline - the road forward, Mackay DGP. 4. Divisional and MDS co-operative models for AHPMC service delivery in SEQ - Local solutions with national implications, Dr Beres Wenck.   Program Seminar Rural Palliative Care  15.15 - 16.00 Poster Presentations    16.00 - 17.00 Debate That the Future lies in the Past Moderator: Dr Steve Clark, ADGP 19.00 - 24.00 Annual Gala Dinner    Sunday 23 November

Session No./Time Session Title Topic Speaker 9.00 - 10.30 Welcome   Dr Moira Sim, Chair, Forum Steering Committee     Guest Speaker    Ms Julia Gillard MP, Shadow Minister for Health & Ageing     Guest Panel Divisions and State Health - collaborating, not cost shifting Dr Jeff Jenkinson, West Vic DGP Dr Mark Foster, Hunter Urban DGP Ms Cobie Rudd, GPDWA Mr Keith Edmonds, SA Health   Questions/discussion          9.45-10.45 Program Seminar Nursing in General Practice  11.00 - 12.00 Forums Winning the hearts and minds of GPs - what is the key? Facilitator: Mr John Mero     Will community participation in Divisions make a difference? How? Facilitator: Mr Tony Wade     Medicare as a safety  net - what are the implications for GPs? Professor John Deeble, Australian National University Mr Russell Schneider, Australian Health Insurance Association Facilitator: Dr Julie Thompson     Political pawns or successful lobbyists - how can Divisions maximise their power? Facilitator: Mr Kevin Broadribb     Opening the communication channels - how can we build an effective network? Facilitator: Ms Sarah Male, TGPD   Program Seminar  Integrated Care Program  12.00 - 13.00 Sum Up and Closing Address Divisions of General Practice: Focussed on the Future Dr Rob Walters, ADGP

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