Resources

These resources are useful for primary care professionals working in clinical or community settings.

Make it Easy: A Handbook for Becoming a Health Literate Organisation

| Guidelines

HealthWest, Inner North West PCP and health and social service professionals and consumers in Melbourne’s west and inner north developed Make it Easy.

Aboriginal Health – flyer – Integrated Team Care (consumer)

| Flyer

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – poster – Don't be shy, identify!

| Poster

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – form – PIP Indigenous Health Incentive & PBS patient registration form

| Form

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – form – PIP Indigenous Health Incentive application

| Form

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – form – referral for follow-up allied health (DoH)

| Referral form

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – fact sheet – MBS items 81300-81360 (DoH)

| Information sheet

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – fact sheet – MBS item 10987 (DoH)

| Information sheet

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – fact sheet – MBS item 715 (DoH)

| Information sheet

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – poster – Are you Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander? (A4)

| Poster

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Aboriginal Health – poster – Are you Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander? (A3)

| Poster

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pack designed to help general practices and health care providers to deliver better, culturally safer care to...

Data cleansing – QI activity

| Toolkit

To get the most out of your clinical software, data needs to be collected accurately, recorded in the right place and maintained over time....

Primary Pulse Winter 2019

| Magazine

Magazine focusing on the key issues and partnerships shaping health in the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network region.

Let's talk about cancer – A guide to running a successful Cancer Pop Up Shop

| Toolkit

This guide has been created to help you run an effective Cancer Pop Up Shop. It draws on a successful pilot of two Cancer...

Refugee health guide – MBS Initiatives

| Toolkit

MBS initiatives to help general practices provide quality care to people who have a refugee background.

Refugee health guide – Recording in MedicalDirector and Best Practice software

| Toolkit

A guide to help general practices record refugee status in their medical software.

Refugee health guide – Readiness checklist for general practices

| Toolkit

A checklist to help general practices identify and provide quality care to people who have a refugee background.

Refugee health guide – Make your practice refugee health ready

| Toolkit

A guide to help general practices identify and provide quality care to people who have a refugee background.

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – Best Practice

| Template

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – MedicalDirector

| Template

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – Word

| Template

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.

Optimised 75+ Health Assessment template – PDF

| Template

GP template for conducting a 75+ Health Assessment.

High risk medicines fact sheet – The “Z drugs” - Zopiclone and Zolpidem

| Information sheet

Zopiclone and zolpidem are medications that are sometimes collectively called the “Z drugs”. They are used for the short-term treatment of sleep problems.

High risk medicines fact sheet – Quetiapine

| Information sheet

Quetiapine belongs to a class of medications known as antipsychotics. It is used to treat conditions such as bipolar disorder, mania, schizophrenia, hard to...