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Five reasons to register your practice for MyMedicare

New statewide referral criteria for long COVID patients requiring specialist care

What you need to know about changes to opioid dependence treatment

Fitbits feature in new ways to help older residents in Melbourne’s west

Helping Melbourne's health care sector treat hepatitis

The PPCC experience

Free urgent medical care now available in Sunbury

Australians of diverse interests come together to support the Voice to Parliament

Quality improvement activities to help your practice improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients

SafeScript – a timely reminder of the mandatory requirement to check SafeScript when prescribing monitored medicines

Improving local asthma care in Melbourne’s inner west

New dementia resources for health professionals and their patients
News from around our region
Tune in to Heart Foundation webinar on new acute coronary syndromes guideline
3 June 2025 | Heart FoundationAccess the new Opioid Safety Toolkit – a resource for GPs and patients
14 May 2025 | Monash Addiction Research CentreAccess to the Australian Immunisation Register in residential care
9 May 2025 | National Centre for Immunisation Research and SurveillanceNew perinatal mental health checklist available in 40 languages
16 April 2025 | Perinatal Anxiety and Depression AustraliaCalling all families with infants within 10km of The Royal Children’s Hospital
27 March 2025 | Murdoch Children's Research InstituteAPNA Festival of Nursing: abstract submission deadlines extended
25 March 2025 | The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses AssociationSubscribe to receive our fortnightly newsletter
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We also recognise, respect and affirm the central role played in our work by people with lived experience, their families and/or carers.
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