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These are activities that expand general practice knowledge, skills and attitudes, related to your scope of practice.
These are activities that require reflection on feedback about your work.
These are activities that use your work data to ensure quality results.
These are activities that expand general practice knowledge, skills and attitudes, related to your scope of practice.
These are activities that require reflection on feedback about your work.
These are activities that use your work data to ensure quality results.
If you look after patients in an aged care facility you should really have a look at this resource.
It’s from the Australian Government’s Department of Health and it basically gives you all you need to know about the most recent initiative to ensure high standard of care in these facilities.
From July 1, all aged care facilities that receive government subsidies for the services they provide will need to collect and provide data on three specific adverse outcomes that residents might experience.
Specifically the government is asking these facilities to record information on pressure injuries, use of physical restraint and unplanned weight loss because these are indicators of clinical quality, or more exactly indicators of poor clinical quality.
Every three months residential facilities will need to submit this Quality Indicator (QI) data to the Department of Health which will generate a report.
So where do GPs fit in?
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Yes, if the referral process involves meaningful collaboration with GPs
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