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Continuing Professional Development
1.5 RACGP CPD hours - Educational Activities
Join the Victorian Tasmanian PHN Alliance and Prestantia Health for this webinar exploring how general practice and allied health can better work together to deliver both person-centred and population focused multidisciplinary care that matters to patients. Providers will gain insights into the MBS Chronic Care Item Changes and how to unlock opportunities for their practice and optimise patient care.
Speaker
Dr Paresh Dawda, GP - Prestantia Health and Next Practice Deakin
Dr Paresh Dawda is a General Practitioner with a portfolio of roles spanning clinical, leadership, academic and consultancy domains. As a clinician, he leads organisations and provides services for people with complex and chronic conditions across the ACT including those with disabilities, residing in aged care and palliative care.
He has been a Regional Medical Director for a corporate provider with a focus on rural and regional health. As a leader, he provides specialist advice to the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and NSW eHealth on broad issues with a primary care lens. As an academic, he has Professorial level affiliations with the Business School of UNSW and the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra. He has also authored multiple influential papers and was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of BMJ’s Integrated Healthcare Journal. As a SME and consultant, he has advised Commonwealth Government, State Governments and PHNs in Australia and designed and delivered programs internationally and nationally on high-performing primary healthcare organisations, co-design, service improvement and system integration.
The golden thread that weaves through his diverse interests is a passion for human-centred care. Paresh has developed the first purposefully designed human-centred care general practice.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Explain the implications of the new MBS Chronic Care item and numbers for people living with complex and chronic conditions
- Explain the implications of the new MBS Chronic Care items and numbers for health professionals including primary care and allied health
- Interpret how high performing person-centred multidisciplinary team-based care is delivered
- Identify a population health approach to establishing a person-centred and integrated care model to deliver comprehensive, continuous and coordinated care
This webinar is hosted by North Western Melbourne PHN in collaboration with Eastern Melbourne PHN, Gippsland PHN, Murray PHN, South Eastern Melbourne PHN, Western Victoria PHN and Primary Health Tasmania.
Disclaimer: In registering for this event, you acknowledge that attendee details and event evaluation data will be shared with the participating PHNs for planning and evaluation purposes. This will allow each PHN to communicate with you about this event and provide post-event support for this session. Please visit the participating PHN’s website to view their privacy and/or data collection statements.