Resources

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

Advance care planning – My Health Record (fact sheet)

| Information sheet

If you have wishes for your future medical treatment you should write them down and share them, so that they are known should the...

Primary Pulse Summer 2019

| Magazine

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

NWMPHN Needs Assessment Report (December 2020)

| Report

This document includes the following sections: 1. Narrative 2. Outcomes of the health needs analysis 3. Outcomes of the service needs analysis 4. Opportunities,...

NWMPHN Financial Report 2019

| Report

This financial report covers North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network, providing formal records of our activities for the year ended 30 June 2019.

Quality Improvement Guide and Tools

| Toolkit

The Quality Improvement (QI) process can help you reduce costs, improve outcomes for staff, and improve patient care and experience. The QI Guide and Tools shows...

Using CAT4 and Topbar for PIP QI activities

| Toolkit

This training guide for new and experienced users, demonstrates how to use CAT Plus in the context of the Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement...

How to create a PRODA account

| Information sheet

Provider Digital Access (PRODA) is an online authentication system providers use to securely access government online services.

Primary Pulse Spring 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 – pop-up shop report

| Report

The “Let’s Talk About Cancer” pop-up shop project was a pilot project with the aim of exploring the viability and use of the pop-up...

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.