Many practices have had success with Patient Held Medical Records. This can be used as the key component of a GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangement. It can act as a communication tool between all providers involved in a patient’s care – are they all ‘on the same page’?. It can also contain information […]
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Patient Held Medical Records and the Care CalendarMarch 7, 2010
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Life in the Fast LaneDecember 14, 2009
Why block up a 15 minute slot if all that is needed is a brief appointment for a script, a certificate, a referral or a normal result? A number of practices have tell how they have implemented ‘Quick Clinics’.
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The rise and rise of the chronic care coordinatorNovember 25, 2009
cheap Fluconazole Blood Pressure The people at Mt Barker/Balhannah Medical Clinic in South Australia were part of the second wave of the Collaborative back in 2005. They remind us that “care redesign” is one of the pillars of effective chronic care. That is you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results! What […] |
Recipe for an Electronic NoticeboardNovember 16, 2009
Dubbo Family Doctors took the idea of a practice noticeboard and extended it to better suit their own purposes. As Ai-Vee Chua writes “In the spirit of PDSAs, I am submitting one ‘small’ step in the multitude of changes we have made (and will make) at our practice as a result of being involved in […] |
The SmartpenNovember 15, 2009
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Tracking doctor starting timesNovember 11, 2009
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Lifestyle changes for Diabetes Prevention – Long term resultsOctober 29, 2009
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Appointment GolfOctober 29, 2009
Tony Lembke buy valacyclovir order Robaxin online This is the first in our new series of Virtual Tabletops, as part of the 1001 Stories Project. In the ‘Carve Out’ model for appointments, some appointments each day are kept reserved as ‘book on the day appointments’, for patients with acute conditions. In our practice, these are […] |
1001 StoriesOctober 29, 2009
One of the practices signing up to the current wave of local collaborative will be the 1001st practice in the APCC program. That’s 1001 stories to share! buy Cialis soft purchase Asacol Which brings us to the the ancient fable ‘Arabian Nights’. The young bride Scheherazade appears doomed to be executed by her new husband, […] |
PREDICTing Heart Attacks – the 9 billion dollar question.August 1, 2009
What could you do with $9 billion dollars! Australians will have 90,000 heart attacks in 2009. 10,000 of us will die as a result – the majority before they reach hospital. According to a recent Strattera without prescription Access Economics report, it is projected that this will cost the economy $17.9 billion dollars! As Dr […] |
