General practice quick updates for week beginning 9 November 2026
Updates for the week beginning Monday 9 November 2026.
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 [email protected].
Want support to meet your general practice PIP QI requirements in 2027? Register to express your interest
The Brisbane South PHN General Practice Quality Improvement (GPQI) team is offering new support opportunities for practices from January 2027.
Practices will have received an email from [email protected] on 3 November with further information and an Expression of Interest (EOI) form. This EOI includes a selection of topics for supporting general practice continuous quality improvement (QI) activities, including:
Cancer screening
Chronic Disease Management
Preventive Health
and more
The GPQI team can help your practice team to identify opportunities for improvement and work collaboratively to strengthen patient care and health outcomes. We also support general practices to meet the Practice Incentive Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI) and accreditation requirements.
Each topic has a limited number of practices that can receive direct support, so be sure to complete your EOI early.
For more information, or any questions about the EOI, contact the General Practice Quality Improvement team on 38647540 or email [email protected].
World Diabetes Day | 14 November 2026
World Diabetes Day is an opportunity for practices to review how they identify and manage diabetes and consider where quality improvement could strengthen patient care.
Small changes can make a big difference. Consider reviewing your practice data and identifying an area where your team could make an improvement.
Brisbane South PHN offers diabetes-focused self-paced QI activities and practical resources to support practices to make and measure improvements in patient care. The General Practice Quality Improvement team can also provide practical advice and support to help practices plan, implement and review QI activities.
Explore the available self-paced QI activities here or contact the General Practice Quality Improvement team on 38647540 or email [email protected].
Tickets are still available for the upcoming diabetes and endocrinology education event LEADS Symposium 2026: Early diagnosis and risk reduction across the spectrum.
SmartForms – the smarter way to refer
Healthlink SmartForms enable healthcare professionals to easily refer and engage with other SmartForms service providers, including hospitals, Medicare Mental Health Centres and private specialists.
SmartForms are designed to streamline electronic referrals, reduce time and inefficiency and securely deliver data directly from your clinical software.
By selecting the SmartForms icon in the clinical software, users can seamlessly populate a referral, select the appropriate recipient from a chosen list and securely submit the referral. SmartForms are responsive and will pre-populate available patient and referrer information. They also use logic to request more specific patient information based on the selections made.
SmartForms are the recommended way to refer into Medicare Mental Health Centres as they incorporate the Initial Assessment and Referral Decision Support Tool (IAR-DST), can be “parked” if awaiting further information and enable attachments to be added. Status Messages regarding the referral will be received back into the clinical software using the same workflows when receiving reports and results.
New self-paced quality improvement activity on perimenopause and menopause health assessments
A new perimenopause/menopause self-paced activity is now available to help general practices strengthen the identification, assessment, documentation, and management of perimenopause and menopause.
A menopause health assessment provides an opportunity to discuss symptoms, health concerns, lifestyle factors and overall wellbeing during the menopause transition. It can help identify health needs early, provide education and support, and guide appropriate follow-up, referrals and ongoing care.
The activity provides access to practical resources, data-driven quality improvement tools, and evidence-based guidance. Practices can complete it independently at a pace that suits their team.
At the end of the activity, practices can let Brisbane South PHN know they have completed it to receive a certificate of achievement.
Find out more about the activity here or contact the General Practice Quality Improvement team on 38647540 or email [email protected].