Dear all
Please find link below to ABC radio interview with Dr Lucie Stanford, discussing the results of her research into “Patient attitudes towards chaperones”.
Kind Regards
Alyssa Horgan
ISPRN Program Assistant
‘The Illawarra and Southern Practice Research Network (ISPRN) which sits within Graduate Medicine at UOW were commissioned by COORDINARE to undertake a consultation with key stakeholders, practices and COORDINARE staff to gauge their motivation and capacity for PCMH change. Here is a summary of the findings from this consultation that were presented in COORDINARE’s most recent In the Loop newsletter:
IMPORTANT: This information may be subject to change.
Welcome to the RACGP online grant application service, powered by SmartyGrants.
The HCF Research Foundation and the RACGP Foundation have established a research grant for the purpose of funding research into health services issues of relevance to general practice.
The HCF Research Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable trust established to encourage health service research for the benefit of all Australians, with objectives to assist in the improvement of prevention, treatment and cure of diseases. The focus of the HCF Research Foundation is achieving implementation of research activities.
Health services research examines how people get access to health care, how much health care costs, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. The main goals of health services research are considered to be to identify the most effective ways to organise, manage, finance, and deliver high quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety.
Two grants of up to $60,000 each (excluding GST) are available for a period of one year to fund research into health services issues of relevance to general practice. This might include access to care, effectiveness of care, quality of care, efficiency of care, or cost of care.
This grant is made available by the HCF Research Foundation with matched funds provided by the RACGP Foundation.
To be eligible for the HCF Research Foundation/ RACGP Foundation research grant, the principal investigator must be a general practitioner or general practice registrar.
Applications will be assessed against the following criteria:
Applications for this research grant will open 5 March 2018. For more information email foundation@racgp.org.au.
ISPRN will be submitting an application for this grant and we are seeking interest from members who would like to be part of a project that investigates the use and implementation of therapeutic guidelines in general practice.
There are over 125 million general practice consultations taking place annually in Australia, with 83% of the Australian population consulting a GP at least once a year. General practitioners (GPs) provide person centred, continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals and families within their community.
General practitioners are not limited by age, gender, body system, disease process or service site. The scope of clinical practice is challenging, spanning prevention, health promotion, early intervention for those at risk, and the management of acute, chronic and complex conditions within the practice population whether in the home, practice, health service, outreach clinic, hospital or community. General practitioners utilise best practice evidence in the light of individual patient circumstances, to understanding, plan and manage their patients’ health needs.
There are many guidelines providing best practice and evidence for managing different conditions for GPs. The aim of this grant is to support guidelines research that investigates use and implementation of TGL point of care guidelines in general practice. Specifically, research topics focusing on:
While research falling under any of these areas will be considered, studies focusing on (3) benefits of using TGL guidelines to improve prescribing and health outcomes are encouraged as areas of particular interest to TGL. Both pilot studies and proposals for full-scale research studies will be considered. The grant is not designed to support primary research on clinical issues or guidelines development.
Up to two grants (one large and one smaller project) to a total value of up to $100,000 (excl. GST) will be offered for a period up to 18 months to fund a project(s) focusing on use and/or implementation of TGL guidelines in general practice.
This grant is made available by Therapeutic Guidelines Limited and administered by the RACGP Foundation.
To be eligible for the TGL/RACGP Research Grant in 2017, the principal investigator or at least one member of the research team must be a GP or GP registrar.
Applications will be assessed against the following criteria:
Expressions of interest are called for this research grant, and will open in March 2018. Following assessment of expressions of interest, selected researchers will be invited to submit an application for funding in mid-May. For more information email foundation@racgp.org.au.
If you are interested in working on this project please contact Alyssa Horgan amunkman@uow.edu.au or 02 4221 5819.
Dear Members
Professor Liz Halcomb and Dr Jane Desborough are supervising a PhD candidate, Ms Sharon James, who is looking at lifestyle risk factor communication by general practice nurses.
The study is looking for practices in the Australian Capital Territory Primary Health Network or South East New South Wales Primary Health Network who employ practice nurses who would be willing to be video recorded during 2-3 patient chronic disease care planning and/or 45-49 health assessment consultations and then participate in an interview (30-45 minutes). This would be minimal impact on their time and is usually undertaken in a single day.
Please see attached information for more details and if you would like to hear more about the study please feel free to contact Sharon James via email sjames@uow.edu.au or phone 0409324729
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Your assistance would be very much appreciated.
Hello
Prof Andrew Bonney will appear on Nine news tonight, 6-6.30pm.
He will also be speaking on ABC Illawarra’s morning program with Melinda James tomorrow morning (9 November 17).
He will be discussing research that he has undertaken along with Dr Roger Cross, Mr Darren Mayne and Dr Kathryn Weston. The research was undertaken in partnership with Southern IML Pathology.
The research identified that people from disadvantaged areas are most at risk of illness from high blood sugar levels.
Congratulations to Dr Lucie Stanford and the team who worked on her publication.
The article has just been published in Australian Family Physician.
Dear ISPRN Members
Just a friendly reminder about registering for our research workshop. The workshop will be held on Saturday 18 November in Gerringong. The workshop will provide an opportunity for you to hear about the research projects that are currently being undertaken and to hear about the outcomes of projects that have concluded this year.
We do also have travel funds available to support some of your travel for those coming from more than 250 km away.
ISPRN Annual Research Workshop-24licab
We look forward to seeing you there!
Kind Regards
Alyssa Horgan
Program Assistant
Dear ISPRN Members
Please find newsletter below from the Advance Project.
The Advance Project have just received funding from the Australian Government to continue to provide GPs, Practice Nurses and Practice Managers training and resources relating to palliative care.
Kind Regards
Alyssa Horgan
ISPRN Program Assistant
Treatment and funding model trial aims to reward quality care while improving the health system budget bottom line
A team of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW), Monash University and the University of Tasmania has won a competitive selection to undertake a trial of a new general practice funding model.
The trial comes from a partnership between Federal Department of Health and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). The research team will test if the new funding model can improve quality of care received by patients attending general practice.
One of two successful applicants nationally, the research involves collaboration between three general practice research networks that are aligned to each of the three universities.
General Practitioner Professor Andrew Bonney, the Roberta Williams Chair of General Practice in UOW’s School of Medicine, will lead the University’s involvement in the trial.
“Countries with strong primary health care generally have better health outcomes and lower health and related social system costs,” Professor Bonney said.
“If you treat people’s health issues at the primary care level then you can reduce rates of unnecessary hospitalisations as well as other health system and aged care costs, while improving health system quality of care in tackling chronic disease and conditions across the life course from the young to elderly and addressing issues of inequality.
“Under the current system, there are barriers to GPs providing longer consultations due to the structure of patient rebates. The RACGP wanted to test whether removing these barriers, encouraging continuity of care and longer consultations leads to better outcomes for vulnerable patients and patients with chronic conditions.”
Professor Bonney said the collaboration between UOW, Monash University and the University of Tasmania leverages the research strengths of each institution. It also meant the trial would have a broad spread geographically and across different socioeconomic groups.
UOW’s Illawarra and Southern Practice Research Network includes practices from the Illawarra and Southern Highlands south to the Shoalhaven and Bega and west to the Riverina.
Alongside his research role at UOW, Professor Bonney also works as a general practitioner in the Shoalhaven so has first-hand knowledge of many of the issues that GPs face as the front-line of the health system.
“I’m hoping this might really make a difference,” he said.
“I work as a GP in a small town on the NSW South Coast; we have a lot of older patients and a lot of Indigenous patients. Both groups that are overrepresented when it comes to chronic health conditions and patients from both groups benefit when you take the time to look at their overall health needs.
“At the moment we don’t have a system that rewards that.”