Needs assessment for the NWMPHN care finder program 2022

This document supports North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network’s (NWMPHN’s) 2022 commissioning of care finder services to help older people navigate the aged care system. It should be read in conjunction with NWMPHN’s Health Needs Assessment 2022–25, which provides a comprehensive compilation of health and wellbeing research and data, plus contextual information gathered through interviews, workshops … Continued

Needs rounds in residential aged care facilities

Explainer video produced by the North and West Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium. Monthly palliative care reviews rounds of deteriorating residents are conducted by palliative care specialists with residential aged care facility (RACF) staff. This supports palliative care planning and provides RACFs with resident triage and case based education.

Handover to residential aged care facilities – explainer video

A guide to supporting effective communication for residents with complex, chronic health care needs between the acute setting and residential aged care.

COVID-19 and influenza vaccination: Q&A for aged care (9 March 2022)

Christine Ferlazzo (project manager of the vaccine preventable conditions unit at North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network) hosted this Q&A session with Dr Wendy Bamberg (an epidemiologist and board-certified infectious diseases physician with the Western Public Health Unit).

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – PDF

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – Word

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – MedicalDirector

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – Best Practice

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.