16 Sep 2024
GPs urged to refer eligible patients for breast screening
GPs in South Western Sydney are encouraged to use Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, as a prompt for referring eligible patients for breast screening.
16 Sep 2024
Service supports clinical decision-making, improves patient safety
SafeScript NSW is a real-time prescription monitoring system which provides prescribers and pharmacists with access to a patient’s prescription and dispensing history for high-risk medicines, known as monitored medicines, such as opioids, benzodiazepines and sleeping aids
10 Sep 2024
New framework guides high-quality end-of-life care
caring@home has released the Prompts for End-of-Life Planning (PELP) Framework, formerly known as the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Framework – Last 12 Months of Life.
09 Sep 2024
Supporting the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children experience some of the highest rates of Otitis Media and associated hearing loss in the world, with inequity fundamentally implicated.
06 Sep 2024
Roundtable helps bridge the gap between mental health and AOD services
South Western Sydney PHN’s Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Roundtable 8 brought together experts, service providers and community members at Rydges Campbelltown on Thursday, 29 August.
04 Sep 2024
SWSPHN welcomes new Board Member Christine Carriage
SWSPHN has welcomed Christine Carriage as our newest Board Member
04 Sep 2024
Panel discusses creating an accessible, affordable and available healthcare system
Dr McDonald joined State Health Minister Ryan Park, and representatives from other PHNs and Local Health Districts, at the Greater Western Sydney Future Health Forum in Penrith on Friday, 23 August
03 Sep 2024
Refer patients for one-off, urgent conditions
When your practice is closed or appointments are unavailable, your patients can visit Urgent Care sites across our region for one-off care for urgent conditions which are not immediately life-threatening but should not be left untreated.
03 Sep 2024
You can refer patients to HIV Clinical Concierge Program
The NSW Multicultural HIV and Hepatitis Service (MHAHS) offers a dedicated HIV Clinical Concierge Program to support people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are living with HIV.
03 Sep 2024
New standardised accreditation certificates for general practice
From 1 September this year, all general practices across Australia will receive a new standardised accreditation certificate with a unique accreditation certificate number when becoming accredited or re-accredited.