Primary Health: quick updates for week beginning 22 September 2025
Stay informed with Brisbane South PHN’s weekly updates for general practices.
Updates for the week beginning Monday 22 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 [email protected].
Important updates
NEW PIP QI Ten Measures Toolkit for General Practice
Brisbane South PHN has released an updated PIP QI Ten Measures Toolkit designed to support general practices in enhancing patient-centred care and meeting eligibility requirements for PIP QI Incentive payments.
Why use the toolkit?
The toolkit helps your practice:
Identify patients who may benefit from targeted health interventions related to:
diabetes
smoking
BMI
influenza vaccination
alcohol consumption
cardiovascular disease (CVD)
cervical screening.
Select one of the 10 quality improvement measures to track your practice’s performance and monitor improvement over time.
Follow a simple, step-by-step guide to complete the improvement activities at your own pace.
Need support?
The Brisbane South PHN Quality Improvement (QI) team can help.
Phone: 3864 7540
Email: [email protected]
Mater eConsults webinar
The highly successful eConsultant program has been funded by the Queensland Government to expand statewide. This service offers a ‘Request for Advice’ (RFA) service to GPs within 3 days. Specialist advice is available from endocrinology, cardiology, dermatology, haematology, respiratory and sleep, neurology and obstetric medicine.
To hear more about how to get connected to eConsultant, register for the upcoming webinar being held on 15 October at 6 pm.
For more information on the service see Queensland eConsultant or contact [email protected]
Changes to the National Immunisation Program (NIP) pneumococcal vaccine schedule
From 1 September 2025, changes to the National Immunisation Program (NIP) pneumococcal vaccine schedule have been introduced. Prevenar 20 has replaced both Prevenar 13 and Pneumovax 23 on the childhood and adolescent immunisation schedule. Prevenar 20 is now the only funded pneumococcal vaccine for all individuals under 18 years of age. The adult pneumococcal vaccine schedule remains unchanged.
Further information
For more information, go to the Immunisation Schedule Queensland.
For detailed clinical guidance, refer to The Australian Immunisation Handbook - Pneumococcal disease.
Previous reporting: Pneumococcal vaccine changes under the National Immunisation Program (NIP).