Priority populations

Enabling easier access to aged care services

8 September 2022
Star Weekly
Children and families
A young child using an asthma inhaler under supervision from a practice nurse.

Improving child asthma management in the west: EOI open for general practice

7 September 2022
NWMPHN
Alcohol and other drugs

Overdose deaths on the rise

6 September 2022
Star Weekly | Image credit: Henry Lai/Unsplash
Priority populations
A care finder supporting an older person using a laptop to navigate potential aged care services.

Advance Tender Notice: provision of care finder services in north western Melbourne

5 September 2022
NWMPHN
Health systems and capacity building

Kids' respiratory clinic in North Melbourne will ease hospital burden

1 September 2022
NWMPHN
Health systems and capacity building
A GP caring for a person needing urgent care on a broken bone in their foot.

Primary care reform update: state and federal funding for new GP-led clinics to ease pressure on hospitals

1 September 2022
NWMPHN
Mental health

Initial Assessment and Referral Decision Support Tool: paid CPD training opportunity for GPs

30 August 2022
NWMPHN
Prevention and management of chronic conditions

Sexual Health Week becomes focus of HIV strategy as Victoria boosts international influence

29 August 2022
NWMPHN
Health systems and capacity building
Staff members at Sunshine Priority Primary Care Centres, PPCCs

Sunshine brings a ray of light for respiratory patients

29 August 2022
NWMPHN | Image: Dr Simon Benson and staff | Credit: Leigh Henningham
Priority populations
nwmphn tgdnb module

Improving care for trans, gender-diverse and non-binary people

24 August 2022
NWMPHN
Priority populations

PIP reporting requirements for COVID-19 in-reach vaccination clinics in aged and disability care

23 August 2022
NWMPHN
Suicide prevention
2 men sitting on a set of stairs in conversation.

Finding ways to tackle suicide in our LGBTIQ+ community

22 August 2022
NWMPHN

News from around our region

Australia’s biggest celebration of primary health care nursing is coming to Brisbane this July

30 June 2025  |  Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)

Cancer Council nurse ambassador registrations now open

30 June 2025  |  Cancer Council Victoria

Free allergy advice platform for GPs

29 May 2025  |  Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Access the new Opioid Safety Toolkit – a resource for GPs and patients

14 May 2025  |  Monash Addiction Research Centre

Access to the Australian Immunisation Register in residential care

9 May 2025  |  National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance

Community health services announce merger

1 May 2025  |  Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health

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