General practice: quick updates for week beginning 2 June 2025
Stay informed with Brisbane South PHN’s weekly updates for general practices.
Updates for the week beginning Monday 2 June 2025.
Find this week’s quick updates and alerts for local general practices, covering the latest sector developments, education and training events, key health system updates, funding opportunities and clinical resources relevant to our region. Updates are grouped by focus area for easy reference. For more information or tailored practice support, contact our Primary Care team at support@bsphn.org.au.
Education and training opportunities
Enhancing Multidisciplinary Team-Based Care in General Practice — Workforce Incentive Program (WIP-PS) in action
Brisbane South PHN have teamed up with Brisbane North PHN, Country to Coast Qld, Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN, and Gold Coast PHN to host a free, 1-hour webinar showcasing real examples of team-based care in action.
Learn more about the Workforce Incentive Program - Practice Stream (WIP-PS) and understand how team-based models improve both patient outcomes and practice sustainability and hear about practices using WIP-PS to build stronger, more integrated practice teams.📍Online
🗓 Tuesday, 10 June 2025
🕕6 pm to 7 pm
Managing Women's* Health in General Practice — Learn from clinical and lived experience experts
General practitioners and primary care clinicians with a passion for women’s* health are warmly invited to a special evening of education, clinical insight, and shared lived experience, focused on enhancing care for patients in primary care settings.
*We acknowledge that sex and gender are distinct concepts and that sex-specific health issues covered in this event affect women and gender diverse peoples.
Dinner and refreshments will be provided
📍Factory 51, 51 Holdsworth Street, Coorparoo
🗓 Wednesday, 12 June 2024
🕕6 pm (registration from 5:30 pm) to 9 pm
Chronic condition management changes — Essential information
Hear the information you need about the upcoming changes to chronic condition management at our webinar co-facilitated by Brisbane South PHN and nationally renowned GPs, Dr Walid Jammal and Dr Paresh Dawda. Don't miss this opportunity to learn what the upcoming changes will mean for your practice and the practical steps you can take now to prepare.
📍Online event
🗓 Monday, 16 June 2024
🕕7 pm to 8:30 pm
See all upcoming education and training events on our website.
General Practice Quality Improvement (QI)
Quality Improvement coaches are available to support your general practice in meeting Medicare PIP-QI targets. We offer free self-service tools and in-person coaching to help you and your team with improving patient outcomes and experiences of care in your practice.
For more support with QI in your practice, contact support@bsphn.org.au or call 07 3864 7540.
Making CPD easier: new QI Toolkits
Do you want to make some improvements in your practice?
Do you want to work on QI activities at your own pace?
Do you receive the Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement Incentive?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then view our new QI toolkits. The Quality Improvement team have developed influenza and pneumococcal toolkits as guides to assist you to improve vaccination rates at your practice. Utilising the Primary Sense Winter Wellness report can also support you in your QI activities.
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