Health systems and capacity building
A banner promoting North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network's 2024-25 Annual report, with images of primary health care providers and patients in the region

Has it been a year already? Read our latest annual report

23 October 2025
NWMPHN
Health systems and capacity building
Footscray High School Doctors in Secondary School team

No judgement, no appointment: offering STI testing in high school

16 October 2025
NWMPHN
Children and families
Dr Sam Zagarella, practice co-owner of Niddrie Medical, sits at a desk and looks at the computer alongside practice manager Megan Lay

Family violence: training general practice teams to respond

13 October 2025
Mary-Anne Toy
Health systems and capacity building
A female general practitioner speaks with a middle-aged woman patient about menopause

New menopause MBS items: what GPs need to know

9 October 2025
Dr Jeannie Knapp, GP advisor at NWMPHN
Mental health
Logo for the National MyMedicare PHN Implementation Program

Upcoming changes to the Better Access mental health program

8 October 2025
National PHN MyMedicare Implementation Program
Children and families

Statewide referral criteria: new release for dermatology conditions

7 October 2025
NWMPHN
Children and families

Statewide referral criteria: new suite of paediatric ENT conditions

7 October 2025
NWMPHN
Prevention and management of chronic conditions
North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network logo

Update on Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinics

2 October 2025
NWMPHN
Prevention and management of chronic conditions
Dr Lester Mascarenhas, GP and founder of Utopia Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health in Hoppers Crossing

To break down health care barriers, it helps to be flexible

29 September 2025
Mary-Anne Toy
Health systems and capacity building
A logo for Outcome Health general practice in aged care incentive product, Puffin

Fly high with Puffin for your GPACI reporting

24 September 2025
NWMPHN
Health systems and capacity building
A Medicare card sits in front of a calculator and Australian currency

New bulk billing incentives calculator released for practices and GPs

23 September 2025
National PHN MyMedicare Implementation Program
Priority populations
94-year-old Italo poses for a photo with carer Penny at his Thornbury home

Care finders: helping older people navigate aged care services

15 September 2025
By Mary-Anne Toy

News from around our region

Decommissioning of the NPS MedicineWise and Doctor’s Bag mobile applications

12 January 2026  |  Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Help improve team-based primary health care

12 January 2026  |  University of Sydney

Pre-travel consult? Make measles immunity a priority

23 December 2025  |  North Eastern Public Health Unit

Victorian Government dementia funding on offer for Brimbank GPs

9 December 2025  |  Victorian Department of Health

Shared maternity care re-credentialing due now

26 November 2025  |  The Royal Women's Hospital

Input needed: GP referral pathways for workers with psychological injuries

26 November 2025  |  Dr Annie Jeffries (University of New South Wales)

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