Capital Health Network

Are you curious about how a low carb approach to managing type 2 diabetes could transform the health of your patients? Join Capital Health Network and Nicole Moore from the Defeat Diabetes Low Carb Program to a webinar discussing how the low carb approach can help patients lose weight, improve blood glucose levels and achieve remission by reducing carbohydrate intake.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the benefits of a low carb approach
2. Define low carb
3. Assist patients to organise their pantry and fridge
4. Outline smart low carb shopping strategies
5. Identify what macros to aim for, what to cook and simple swaps
6. Review approaches setbacks

Presenter:

Nicole Moore – Dietitian

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A certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees of the live webinar. Attendees are welcome to self-report CPD hours to their education dashboard, (Educational Activity 1.5 hours). The webinar will be posted online on Capital Health Network’s YouTube.

CHN invites you to a webinar on making the most of your referrals using HealthLink’s SmartForms. Join Dr Anne-Marie Svoboda (GPLU Medical Director – Canberra Health Services), Dr Louise Kenyon (Clinical Editor – CHN) and Eric Dunn (GP Liaison – SR Specialists & Referrals) as they explain how to use SmartForms and share valuable tips and success stories since its implementation. SmartForms not only streamlines referrals for patients to any healthcare provider, but saves time and costs associated with paper-handling.

You will learn about:

1. The benefits of electronic referrals for general practice and patients
2. What happens to your referral at Canberra Health Services
3. HealthPathways and referral pathway
4. SR Specialists and Referrals

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Presenters:

• Dr Anne-Marie Svoboda (GPLU Medical Director – Canberra Health Services)
• Dr Louise Kenyon (Clinical Editor – CHN)
• Eric Dunn (GP Liaison – SR Specialists & Referrals)

Join Capital Health Network and Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr Omar Adham for a webinar focusing on the work up of pelvic masses in primary care.

This webinar explores pelvic masses and:

1. The impact of age and stage
2. Benign to malignant aeitiologies
3. Interventions from emergency action to thoughtful investigations and long-term monitoring.

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A certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees of the live webinar. Attendees are welcome to self-report CPD hours to their education dashboard, (Educational Activity 1.5 hours).

Capital Health Network, in collaboration with sleep experts in the ACT, invites primary care providers to the fifth webinar in the sleep series, focussing on CPAP troubleshooting and hypoventilation

Sleep dysfunction is a common presentation in primary care and a major contributor to chronic mental and physical diseases. Patients may present with symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, hypersomnolence, or cognitive decline. Assisting patients with their sleep issues is a healthcare priority. This webinar trouble shoots CPAP devices through discussion of common issues and case studies. It will also address issues of hypoventilation and sleep.

Presenter:

Dr Carol Huang, Respiratory sleep and obeisty physician

Dr Deborah Inman, Respiratory and sleep medicine physician

Additionally, the series will be available on the Capital Health Network YouTube page (Capital Health Network – YouTube)

Attendees are welcome to self-report CPD hours to their education dashboard, (Educational Activity 1.5 hours for each webinar), a certificate of attendance will be provided after each webinar.

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In Canberra, HealthPathways is a platform offering healthcare professionals clinical guidance and local referral information for streamlined patient care.

Home – Community HealthPathways ACT and SNSW (search for “Sleep”)

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PASSWORD: forhealth

This webinar is suitable for all prescribers and dispensers of monitored medicines , such as General Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Dentists, other prescribers and Pharmacists

Capital Health Network and Canberra Script invite prescribers and dispensers to an educational evening focusing on prescription medication safety, real time prescription monitoring, and how to have difficult conversations with patients around medication risk reduction.

This will be a face-to-face event, dinner will be provided.

Speakers at the event will include:

• Amanda Galbraith, ACT Health Acting Chief Pharmacist and Senior Director of the Pharmaceutical Services Section, to explain the ACT’s real time prescription monitoring platform (RTPM)
• A subject matter expert from a local alcohol and other drugs service to discuss harm reduction, approaches to difficult conversations, and local services for people experiencing dependance or tolerance to controlled substances and medications.
• CHN intends to invite a regular user of the RTPM to present on their user experience and provide guidance for other prescribers

A panel discussion with all speakers will be held to answer any questions you have. We hope to see you there!

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A certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees. Attendees are welcome to self-report CPD hours to their education dashboard, (Educational Activity 2.5 hours).