5-Minute Catchup

The Check-Up | 7 July 2022

Episode Summary

This week's Check-Up features: monkeypox, the new sepsis standard of care, changes from the 1 July including: cervical screening self-collection, telehealth restrictions, the National Diabetes Services Scheme expansion and PPE bundles, as well as upcoming events. The Check-Up is a weekly news segment of the 5-Minute Catchup, bringing notable news in a convenient medium.

Episode Notes

ACT Chief Health Officer - General practice clinical alert: Monkeypox

Department of Health and Ageing – Monkeypox resources

ACSQHC - Sepsis Clinical Care Standard

ACT and SNSW HealthPathways - Cervical Screening

RACGP - Cervical screening self-collection to expand from July

National Cervical Screening Program – updated guidelines

National Cervical Screening Program – Healthcare provider toolkit

National Diabetes Services Scheme – 1 July 2022 expansion

Capital Health Network - PPE order form

Capital Health Network – Educational events

Questions? Contact our Primary Care Team via email and we'll be in touch.
primarycare@chnact.org.au

Episode Transcription

Welcome to the five-minute catch up my name is Kate Aigner from the Primary Care Team, and this is your weekly Check-up.

In this week’s podcast, we’ll be talking about monkeypox, the new sepsis standard of care, changes from the 1 July including: cervical screening self-collection, telehealth restrictions, the National Diabetes Services Scheme expansion and PPE bundles, as well as upcoming events.

To start things off, the ACT Chief Health Officer has updated the health alert for Monkeypox and is urging practitioners to be vigilant for signs and symptoms of monkey pox particularly in patients who have the following epidemiological risk factors in the 21 days prior to symptom onset: Overseas travel; Sexual and/or other physical intimate contact with a gay, bisexual or other man who has sex with men; or contact with an individual known to have monkeypox infection.

Practitioners are also reminded that as of 28 May 2022, Monkeypox is a notifiable condition in the ACT and clinicians must immediately notify ACT Health if they identify or suspect that a patient has monkeypox. Links to the alert and further information are available below.

The first national care standard on sepsis was released on 30 June. This new standard of care will help to ensure sepsis is recognised early and patients receive coordinated, best-practice care to reduce the risk of death or ongoing morbidity. A link to the new standard can be found below.

Now it’s time for the titbits… from the 1 July there have been a number of changes:

Cervical screening self-collection is now an option for anyone eligible for cervical screening, with further information for practitioners available in the links below.
The new telehealth restrictions due to come into effect on 1 July have now been delayed for three months until 30 September 2022
The National Diabetes Services Scheme has expanded so that all people with type 1 diabetes can now access subsidised continuous glucose monitoring and flash glucose monitoring
The Department of Health has been renamed the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Living with COVID Bundles are now available until 30 September, there is a link below to our website where you can find the order forms.
And as of 6 July people are able to travel to and from Australia without having to declare their COVID-19 vaccination status.

Finally, Capital Health Network has a full program of events coming up in July. These include;

Basic concepts in Lymphoma (Haematology & Radiation Oncology Perspective) webinar with ICON Cancer Centre on Tuesday 19 July;
Secure Messaging for GPs and Specialists (Adopting digital referrals in ACT) webinar on Wednesday 20 July; and
Residential Aged Care Facilities and Allied Health Connect face to face event on Saturday 30 July to improve the understanding of the opportunities that allied health professionals can contribute to the health and wellbeing of aged care residents.

Registration details for these and other events are in the link below.

And that wraps up your weekly check-up. Did you know that Capital Health Network is always available to answer your queries? If you have any questions about any of the information in this podcast, get in contact with us via email at primarycare@chnact.org.au

Our Quality Improvement Team here at Capital Health Network can assist you and your practice in developing QuIK Cycle Activities – a Plan-Do-Study-Act Quality Improvement Activity which could award participating General Practitioners with RACGP CPD Points by undertaking Self-Directed Quality Improvement. Get in contact with our team to discuss your opportunities for Continuous Quality Improvement.

On behalf of everyone here at Capital Health Network through the ACT’s PHN Program we thank you for tuning in and we’ll see you next Thursday for your next Check-up.

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