Interesting Links
​Education and broader issues

• Aged Care
• ​Pandemic Stats

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• Insurance
• ​Pharmacy

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• ​PPE

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• Other Services

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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

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Webinars

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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 

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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)

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