Primary health: quick updates for week beginning 20 October 2025
Updates for the week beginning Monday 20 October 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.
For more information or tailored practice support, contact our Primary Care team at [email protected].
Interactive practice reports
Did you know, Brisbane South PHN’s Practice Reports Dashboard features an interactive diabetes report? This tool allows you to view the prevalence of diabetes at both a community and practice level.
You can also tailor the report to meet your practice needs by using filters, such as type of diabetes, patient demographics, smoking status, BMI, HbA1c, observations recorded and Statistical Area.
If you would like access to the dashboard or are unsure if you have already been onboarded for access, please fill out this short online survey here. A member of our Digital Health team will be in contact to assist you with the onboarding process.
Don’t miss the Logan Endocrine and Diabetes Service (LEADS) Symposium 2025
Join specialists and primary care peers for an evening of clinical education and networking focused on diabetes and endocrine health. Hear the latest on managing complex cases, innovative care models, and efforts underway to improve patient care coordination.
📅 Friday 14 November 2025
📍 The Calile Hotel, Fortitude Valley
Infectious syphilis notifications continue to increase in Queensland
Syphilis has been declared a Communicable Disease Incident of National Significance (CDINS).
Queensland Health continues to ask clinicians to:
include syphilis testing for all sexually active patients in standard asymptomatic check up
consider syphilis in presentations of anogenital and oropharyngeal lesions, rashes, lymphadenopathy, uveitis, systemic and neurological symptoms
trace sexual contacts to stop reinfection and ongoing transmission
routinely test all pregnant patients each trimester for syphilis.
Contact Queensland Syphilis Surveillance Service for past serology, treatment histories and advice on management and referral via [email protected] or phone 1800 032 238 (statewide).
Further information
See previous coverage: Notifications of infectious syphilis increase across Queensland.
For management advice view the syphilis HealthPathway.