Hunter General Practitioners Association
  • Home
  • Lobbying
    • Local Member Contacts
    • Previous History
  • Resources
    • Links
  • News
  • About
    • What is the Hunter General Practice Association
    • Our Objectives
    • Office bearers
    • Membership
    • Constitution
    • Meetings & Documents
  • Archive
    • COVID-19 >
      • Aged Care in COVID
      • GP Finances in COVID
      • Insurance in COVID
      • IT and emails
      • Interesting links
      • Pandemic incidence and prevalence
      • Pathology and Radiology
      • Pharmacy
      • PPE
      • Specialists - Allied Health - Support
      • Personal Stories
      • Telehealth DVA and MBS
    • Storm Information
    • Disaster Planning
  • Contact
Picture

Interesting Links
​Education and broader issues

  • Aged Care
  • ​Pandemic Stats
  • GP Finances
  • Path&Radiology
  • Insurance
  • ​Pharmacy
  • IT & E-mail
  • ​PPE
  • Interesting Links
  • Other Services
  • Lobbying
  • Telehealth 

GPs

  • Factsheet covering a positive patient presents to your practice
  • 15 Jun - aeromedical evacuation for COVID -19 cases
  • Pandemic Kindness Movement- ways of improving self care and car of colleagues
  • another way of looking g at data as restrictions are ease
  • 20 May - Daisy - site and app address for assistance for patients experiencing domestic and family violence
  • 20 May - Ask Izzy site - for assistance with food, housing, centrelink, - all forms of contacts including domestic and family violence help
  • 29 Apr - Roadmap to Recovery - a report by the "Group of 8" universities
  • 28 Apr - COVID-19 in schools - the experience in NSW - a report by NCIRS
  • 28 Apr - Updated from the PM - includes "Update(s) on Coronavirus Measures"
  • 27 Apr - HGPA GP survey and Results so far
  • 27 Apr - "Expert Advice Matters" - RACGP see-your-GP campaign 
  • 27 Apr - COVIDSafe app - information and download link
  • 22 Apr - Drug testing Australia wide, HMRI involvement - ASCOT trial of hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir-ritonavir
  • 17 Apr RACGP offering research grants to study impact of pandemic on GPs
  • 16 Apr - Nowcasting
  • 2 Apr - CSIRO and their work on vaccines 
  • 1 April HNE Grand Rounds
  • 6 Mar webinar Craig Dalton and Bruce Aylward - controlling COVID - 19 in Australia, based on China experience
  • 16-24 Feb - Report on WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019
  •  ​​register for PHN COVID-19 updates
  • Hunter New England Health website - COVID-19​​
  • epidemiology explained graphically 23 mins
  • ​epidemiology in 7 minutes (boy does he speak quickly!)
  • Lowy Institute effects of COVID-19 on global politics
  • NSW Department of Health - excellent site
Vertical Divider

Webinars

  • HNECCPHN/PHU webinars - recordings and Powerpoints accessible from this HNECCPHN page
  • ​Deputy CMO - Australian Gov - DOH
  • ​Grand Rounds JHH

Meeting Notes

  • HNE clinical council May
  • HNE clinics council - David Durheim
  • HNELHD Clinical Council meeting 8/4/20 - David Durheim modelling comparison, John Ferguson on PPE
  • HNELHD/HNECCPHN COVID-19 Update#4 Webinar 7/4/20
  • HNELHD/HNECCPHN COVID-19 Update#3 Webinar 23/3/20

Sites of Clinical interest

  • Burnet Institute news site
  • Red whale  - from the University of Reading UK, search under 'free updates'
  • WHO COVID-19 - guidance for health workers
  • Coronavius: the Hammer the and Dance - Tomas Pueyo - What the next 18 months can look like, if Leaders buy us time
  • What we can learn from the countries winning the coronavirus fight - ABC News - maintained/updated 26/4/20
Vertical Divider

Patient Resources

  • 200901 My hero is you - for kids
  • COVID-19 Information - a dedicated COVID-19 patientinfo.org.au resource page, curated by HNELHD
  • COVID-19 outbreak - a great resource page by the Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council of NSW.  Great posters and fact sheets that could be used by anybody!

Evidence

  • 4 Jun - unreliable evidence
  • National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce
  • - Including - ethical issues, mental health impacts, convalescent plasma use, antibody level measurement, risk of resurgence in Aus
  • Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service excellent site for the evidence for those burning questions
  • UpToDate COVID-19 page - fully accessible without a subscription
  • 2012 clinical accuracy of infrared thermometers

Podcasts and Apps

Some interesting podcasts download from usual sources
  • 20 May - Daisy - site and app address for assistance for patients experiencing domestic and family violence
  • Ask Izzy app - great for homeless, or anyone needing help
  • Going Viral - COVID-19 Healthed podcasts with Dr Harry Nespolon, GP and President of the RACGP 
  • coronacast - abc podcast 
  • ​FOAMcast - US based generally relates to emergency medicine, but short (about 15 mins or so) and interesting, especially for rural ED doctors
  • COVIDSafe app - essential download if we want to emerge from COVID-19 safer and faster,  Campaign/promotion material here.
  • 29 Mar - Coronavirus app released - "Coronavirus Australia" - solid app, good for patients to keep up to date. 

History

  • 2019 Heritage symposium - Spanish Flu in Newcastle
  • ​The Spanish Flu in Australia - research by Dr John Goswell, as part of an ongoing project on the history of general practice in Australia.  Many parallels with the COVID-19 are noted.
Direct links to HealthPathway COVID-19 Pages (Pathway most relevant to this topic is underlined)

Picture
  • Assessment & Mx
  • ​Ongoing Ax & Mx
  • Information
  • Aged Care Ax & Mx​
  • Impact/Local Services
  • Referrals
  • Practice Mx
  • Telehealth
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.