Primary Health: quick updates for week beginning 15 September 2025
Stay informed with Brisbane South PHN’s weekly updates for general practices.
Updates for the week beginning Monday 15 September 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.
Important updates
Future-Ready General Practice: Join us for dinner with experts in Primary Care Reforms
General practitioners are invited to join primary health reform experts, Dr Kirsten Meisinger and Dr Walid Jammal, for a dinner event to explore the changing general practice environment and learn practical approaches to patient population management, prevention, and health equity to shape the future of their practices.
Date: 15 October 2025
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm (5:30pm registration)
Location: Loft West End, 100 Boundary Street, West End, Queensland 4101
Cost: Free (dinner included)
Spaces are limited! Register now!
Self-Paced Quality Improvement Activities for General Practice
Have you tried the self-paced Quality Improvement (QI) activities designed to help general practices improve key areas of patient care?
Each QI activity provides:
clear, step-by-step guidance to complete the activity at your own pace
required templates and examples
useful tools and resources to support implementation
eligibility for CPD hours (self-reported)
the opportunity to provide feedback.
View current QI topics:
For more information or to talk to the QI team, call 3864 7540 or email support@bsphn.org.au.
Bicillin L-A shortage update
Please be aware that the shortage of Bicillin L-A 1.2 million unit prefilled syringes for injection (commonly used for the treatment of syphilis) has been extended to the end of October 2025.
Additional overseas-registered benzathine benzylpenicillin products have been approved.
Health professionals, carers and patients can learn more about the shortage of Bicillin L-A (benzathine benzylpenicillin tetrahydrate) prefilled syringe for injection, on the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) webpage.
Further information
Further support for clinicians in the management of syphilis cases throughout Queensland is available through the Queensland Syphilis Surveillance Service (QSSS).
Contact QSSS on 1800 032 238 or via QLD-Syphilis-Surveillance-Service@health.qld.gov.au.