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Department of Health – Primary Health Care COVID-19 Response Teleconference 1 September 2021 – Meeting notes from Dr Maria Boulton
The Primary Care Implementation Group (PCIG) is an online meeting that includes most primary healthcare peak bodies. It is convened weekly by the Department of Health as part of the COVID-19 response. Dr Maria Boulton attends on behalf of the AGPA. Read more
Questionnaire on Psoriasis – Invitation to Participate
RACGP fellows are invited to complete this one-minute online questionnaire, in affiliation with the University of Sydney and Western Sydney Local Health District, assessing clinician perspectives on psoriasis.
Your responses will be informative as to standard practices of care, which is important for establishing a collective approach to the management of these patients. We strongly encourage you to participate.
Your responses are anonymous and will remain strictly confidential. All information collected will be non-identifiable.
The questionnaire closes in 6 weeks. Please submit the survey only once.
Click here to complete the questionnaire.
At a time when General Practice is working harder than ever to ensure that Australians are vaccinated the Federal Government has decided to cut funding to General Practices.
Over 10.5 M Australians have had at least one dose of Vaccine.
GP has delivered 50% of the 16.5m doses delivered to date.
The full daily breakdown report is here
These are some updates to the vaccination program that we have found over the last week. If you need more information please contact the AGPA Secretariat.
Department of Health – Primary Health Care COVID-19 Response Teleconference 18 August 2021 – Meeting notes from Dr Maria Boulton
The Primary Care Implementation Group (PCIG) is an online meeting that includes most primary healthcare peak bodies. It is convened weekly by the Department of Health as part of the COVID-19 response. Dr Maria Boulton attends on behalf of the AGPA. Read more
Department of Health – Primary Health Care COVID-19 Response Teleconference 11 August 2021 – Meeting notes from Dr Maria Boulton
The Primary Care Implementation Group (PCIG) is an online meeting that includes most primary healthcare peak bodies. It is convened weekly by the Department of Health as part of the COVID-19 response. Dr Maria Boulton attends on behalf of the AGPA. Read more
Thursday 12 August: the ACT went into lock down with its first case of COVID-19 in over 12 months.
On Tuesday a Canberra respiratory clinic Principal commented:
A lot of hours and tired staff.
Friday 20 August: there are 94 active cases in the ACT, and more than 20,000 people are in quarantine.
To date more than 13 M vaccine doses have been delivered, about 50% by GP
The full progress report can be found here
The DoH have provided strategic information regarding the Vaccine Program including Operation COVID Shield Plan, Doherty Modelling and Horizons Allocations: