General Practice Portal

• National Lung Cancer Screening - What GPs need to know
• PHN launch new RAP artwork
• Death Expo 2025

• Joint Regional Needs Assessment
• National Lung Cancer Screening Program
• RACGP remote supervisor
• Closing soon: TALK ABOUT ageing well

• JEV testing indications - Darling Downs
• New Non-Emergency Patient Transport (NEPT) Request System
• New McGrath Advanced Breast Cancer Nurse for Darling Downs Health – Mary Kelsey
• Let's TALK ABOUT ageing well

Alert - Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV)

Alert - Gestational diabetes mellitus diagnosis and screening changes

Alert: Measles

Alert: ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred

Episode 38: Eating disorders - with Amara Brennan and Dr Nishanth Jayarajan (West Moreton Health)

In this episode, Dr Tanusha and Dr Jo speak with Amara Brennan and Dr Nishanth Jayarajan from the West Moreton Health Eating Disorder Speciality Service. The service provides assessment, treatment, education, and secondary consultation for patients affected by eating disorders.

In this episode, Dr Tanusha speaks with Dr Robert Heffernan.

Dr Heffernan is a GP and practice owner in Toowoomba, GP Career Guide, and the Clinical Lead for Griffith’s LongLook Program, which sees fourth year medical students undergo placements in rural placements across the Darling Downs.

They discuss medical education and placements, student-patient relationships, and the benefits and challenges of medical student mentorship.

As part of #RefugeeWeekAU, the PHN are releasing a series of podcasts on refugee health.

In episode 34, Dr Tanusha speaks with Amale Hussein, a Refugee Health Nurse with SSI - Settlement Services International.

With a refugee background herself, Amale also shares her journey to becoming a Refugee Health Nurse after arriving in Australia from Somalia with her family at the age of seven in 1998.

In episode 35, Dr Tanusha speaks with Elizabeth Laverty, a Refugee Health Officer with Multicultural Australia, the leading humanitarian settlement provider in Queensland.