PHC RIS infonet: Volume 13: 2008-2009, Issue 1 - October 2008

Are you remotely interested?

This conference kicked off with the Queensland Minister for Health's announcement of a 12 month pilot study of 10 American trained Physician Assistants based in five urban and rural locations (www.cabinet.qld.gov.au/mms/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=59727). This along with the Physician Assi...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 13: 2008-2009, Issue 1 - October 2008

A Global World - practical action for health & wellbeing

This inaugural Population Health Congress was a collaborative event organised by the Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA), the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM), the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) and the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 13: 2008-2009, Issue 1 - October 2008

Healthy People, Prosperous Country

This excellent stimulating symposium was convened by the Department of Public Health at Flinders University and the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH). As a Fulbright Symposium, both the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing and the Government of South A...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 6 - August 2008

Primary care & data key components to Australia's health

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Conference, 2008 24 June 2008, Canberra Attended by Sara Howard, PHC RIS Australia's health is a biennial report produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) that covers a range of aspects about health care in Australia inclu...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 6 - August 2008

Facilitating knowledge exchange and transfer for a dynamic future

13th Health Outcomes Conference 30 April-1 May 2008 Attended by Libby Kalucy & Ann-Louise Hordacre, PHC RIS The main theme(s) of this conference were: The need for knowledge transfer between many different groups: eg. between practitioners and patients, such as those making rapid deci...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 6 - August 2008

Sharing knowledge: a key to improved rural health

Inaugural Rural and Remote Scientific Symposium 6-8 July 2008, Brisbane Attended by Ellen McIntyre, PHC RIS Delegates to the three-day inaugural Rural and Remote Scientific Symposium held in Brisbane recently, agreed on the need to raise the status of rural and remote health research as a...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 5 - June 2008

Investing in Australia's health and wellbeing

Investing in Australia's health and wellbeing National Prevention Summit 9 April 2008, Melbourne Attended by Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS About 100 leaders from many fields of prevention attended the National Prevention Summit in Melbourne . This key consultative event which was organised by t...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 5 - June 2008

Linking evidence policy and practice

Linking evidence policy and practice National Health Care Reform Conference 2008 12-13 March 2008, Sydney Attended by Libby Kalucy & Ann-Louise Hordacre PHC RIS Health care reform is needed because the health system is not meeting needs, and costs to government and individuals continue ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 5 - June 2008

Turnaround in UK health organisations - lessons from research

Turnaround in UK health organisations - lessons from research 3rd HARC Forum: Capitalising on Opportunities for Hospital Reform 1 April 2008, Sydney Attended by Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS Why do organisations decline and fail? Can we predict or prevent decline? When failures occur, how are t...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 5 - June 2008

Translating research into policy and practice

NICS Knowledge Translation Workshop 14 March 2008, Melbourne Eleanor Jackson-Bowers, PHC RIS The National Institute of Clinical Studies recently hosted a workshop on knowledge translation (KT) featuring presentations by visiting speakers, Jeremy Grimshaw from the University of Ottawa and ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 4 - April 2008

PHC research - a means to an end not an end in itself

Primary Health Care Research Showcase 6 March 2008, Brisbane Attended by Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS In this statement Phillip Davies, Deputy Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Queensland, summed up the need for those who produce and those who use primary hea...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 3 - February 2008

Growing Together for Impact and Sustainability The 4 th Biennial NSW Primary Health Care Research & Evaluation Conference

29-30 November 2007, Sydney With the theme of ‘growing together for impact and sustainability', it was most appropriate that both international speaker Professor Chris van Weel, Professor of General Practice at the Radboud University Medical Centre, The Netherlands and Dr Marie Pirotta from Mel...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 3 - February 2008

Moving Forward: Rural Research & Knowledge Transfer

2007 Shepparton Research Conference 27 November 2007, Shepparton Passion and enthusiasm were prominent as over 90 people from many rural centres in Victoria gathered for the third annual Shepparton Research Conference on rural health incorporating general practice, primary health care, integr...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 3 - February 2008

Listening to the Past, Looking to the Future

How can Health Services Research contribute to assessing fads and fashions in health policy and practice? 5 th Health Services & Policy Research Conference 2-5 December 2007, Auckland The way that policy makers use and interact with health services research was one of the insights I gai...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 2 - December 2007

Australian General Practice Network Forum

15-18 November 2007, Hobart Ann-Louise Hordacre & Simon Patterson, PHC RIS Data are currency, results count, measurement matters! These were key themes reiterated throughout the conference program and were manifest in the release of What Divisions Do . This report, based substantially on da...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 2 - December 2007

35th NAPCRG Annual Meeting

20-23 October 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS My first NAPCRG meeting in Vancouver in October was excellent. I'd heard lots of good reports about NAPCRG over the last few years, and the meeting certainly exceeded my expectations of hearing stimulating rigorous hi...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 1 - October 2007

Nursing in General Practice Forum

28-29 August 2007, Coffs Harbour AGPN ran a very successful Nursing in General Practice Forum in Coffs Harbour on 28-29 August 2007. Beautiful surroundings, the lunar eclipse, and a dinner where we were moved by the story of Bali bombing survivor Peter Hughes, made a memorable evening. The pro...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 1 - October 2007

Mount Isa Remote Health Conference

Are you remotely interested? 23-25 August 2007, Mt Isa A key focus throughout this fully subscribed conference (there were over 100 delegates) was the primary health care workforce in rural and particularly remote Australia – how to have the right workers with the right skills in the right pl...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 12: 2007-2008, Issue 1 - October 2007

WA GP Network and State Forum

All sorts of networks at the 2-3 August 2007 2-3 August, Perth IT networks, GP networks, Division networks and health networks featured on the program of the WAGP Network and State Forum on 2-3 August in Perth. In the interests of brevity, I've focused on health networks. Health networks ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 6 - August 2007

The Adelaide Festival of Ideas: Indigenous matters

The Adelaide Festival of Ideas in July 2007 provided a feast of independent and rigorous thought on many of today’s biggest issues, the climate, the media, immigration and terrorism, public access to information, food politics and science. Podcasts and CDs of presentations are now available throu...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 5 - June 2007

2006 QDGP Forum

QDGP Forum, 16 March 2007, Brisbane - Attended by Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS The changing primary health care landscape in Queensland The Forum in Brisbane organised by Queensland Divisions of General Practice was an excellent way to continue the dialogue between GPs, Queensland Health and Divis...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 4 - April 2007

Panel in the Pub

15 February 2007, Adelaide - Thinker in Residence Program South Australia's innovative Thinker in Residence Program provides a wonderful opportunity for politicians, policy advisors, workers and citizens to “listen to people who know what they're talking about” in the words of Jay Weatherill, ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 3 - February 2007

2006 Australian Healthcare Association conference

9-10 November 2006, Brisbane - Attended by Libby Kalucy & Ann-Louise Hordacre, PHC RIS Unravelling the patient maze The painting of a health care maze produced during the opening reception of this conference served as a continual reminder of the conference theme. The lack of system thinking ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 3 - February 2007

2006 National Primary and Community Health Network Chronic Disease Management Forum

8 November 2006, Brisbane - Attended by Libby Kalucy & Ann-Louise Hordacre, PHC RIS Strengthening the primary health care approach There is a compelling case for action with the new paradigm of chronic disease management encompassing survivors of previously terminal diseases, as well as co...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 3 - February 2007

Australian General Practice Network Forum

25-28 November 2006, Gold Coast - Attended by Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS Building health communities through partnerships The combination of formal sessions and informal conversations at this very large Forum stimulated many ideas as well as providing a great opportunity to catch up with people. ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 2 - December 2006

2006 RACGP Annual Scientific Convention

5-8 October 2006, Brisbane - Attended by Ellen McIntyre (presenter), PHC RIS Be the future The 600+ delegates at the RACGP Annual Scientific Convention were treated to such an extensive range of presentations that each delegate would be forgiven if they thought they had attended a diffe...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 2 - December 2006

Australian Health Inequities Conference

14 September 2006, Adelaide - Attended by Eleanor Jackson-Bowers, PHC RIS Multi-disciplinary approaches to health inequities research An imperative is emerging for research to be policy relevant and a strong message from this conference was that multidisciplinary research, which incorpo...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 2 - December 2006

International Society for Equity in Health 4th International Conference

11-13 September 2006, Adelaide - Attended by Peter Drake, Anne Magarey & Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS The two themes of the conference Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity were represented with presentations and discussions that considered their multiple facets in a complex envir...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 2 - December 2006

IPAC Conference 2006

6-8 October 2006, New Zealand - Attended by Ann-Louise Hordacre, PHC RIS Enhancing performance: Breaking down the barriers The Independent Practitioners Association Council (IPAC) Conference looked to the future of New Zealand healthcare by considering local and international experienc...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 2 - December 2006

Australasian Evaluation Society 2006 International Conference

4-7 September 2006, Darwin - Attended by Peter Drake, PHC RIS Evaluation in emerging areas The conference theme Evaluation in Emerging Areas was explored in the following streams: International development contexts Indigenous contexts Innovative approaches to working in chan...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 2 - December 2006

37th Public Health Association of Australia Conference

25-27 September 2006, Sydney - Attended by Eleanor Jackson-Bowers, PHC RIS Tackling the determinants of health Every so often it is good to be taken out of your usual social context and challenged with some alternative perspectives. The conference theme was tackling the determinants ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 2 - December 2006

PHCRED Statewide Collaboration Annual Event

21 September 2006, Adelaide - Showcasing PHCRED research from SA, NT and greater Green Triangle? PHCRED Statewide Collaboration Annual Event Attended by Ellen McIntyre (presenter), Sarah Eckermann, Libby Kalucy, PHC RIS Over 50 delegates coming from as far as Alice Springs, Warrnambool, W...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 11: 2006-2007, Issue 1 - October 2006

National Health Policy Round Table

8 August 2006, Melbourne - Purchasing prevention: making every cent count The Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies convened a stimulating National Health Policy Roundtable on 8 August 2006, facilitated by Dr Norman Swan. What happens in Treasury? Treasury relies on being ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 6 - August 2006

Queensland Division of General Practice (QDGP) Forum

16-17 June 2006, Hervey Bay - It's time! Harnessing the combined strength of Queensland Divisions The Queensland Divisions of General Practice (QDGP) Forum commenced with the announcement that Queensland Health and QDGP will work together to combat chronic disease with $2.8 million provide...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 6 - August 2006

Vital Links State Forum

26-28 May 2006, Sydney - The 8th Vital Links State Forum presented by the Alliance of NSW Divisions of General Practice, was held in conjunction with the Sydney General Practitioners Conference and Exhibition (GPCE) and the Australian Practice Nurse Association Conference. This large event,...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 6 - August 2006

What works for mental health service delivery?

13 June 2006, Canberra - I recently attended a National Forum, conducted by ADGP and ANU, to view the presentation of the preliminary results of their systematic review of What works for mental health service delivery? funded under an APHCRI Stream 4 Grant. At the Forum, Professor Ian Hickie...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 6 - August 2006

Annual State Divisions Conference

17 May 2006, Adelaide - SADI ran a very successful primary mental health care conference on 16 May with more than 200 people, followed by a two day Forum on 17-18 May. As usual, this was an excellent opportunity for PHC RIS to see what Divisions were doing, and put faces to familiar names, es...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 4 - April 2006

Evidence informed health care, action research and patient/public empowerment

5 December 2005, Melbourne - Seminar presented by Dr Sandy Oliver through La Trobe University's Institute for Advanced Study and School of Public Health. Dr Oliver is Reader in Public Policy and Deputy Director, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK ...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 4 - April 2006

Health Services & Policy Research Conference

13-16 November 2005, Canberra - Delegates at the fourth Health Services and Policy Research conference heard some excellent speakers discuss features of the health systems and services of several countries to illustrate the challenges of translation of research, reform, and change. Several sp...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 3 - February 2006

Making sense of complexity

7-9 December 2005, Sydney - Making sense of complexity was the theme of a very stimulating three day workshop held in Sydney in December 2005, run by the Society for Organisational Learning Australia for the Cynefin Centre. The Cynefin Centre is an international network that focuses on the appl...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 3 - February 2006

7th Annual Divisions of General Practice Network Forum

3-6 November, Perth - Over one thousand people attending the recent 7 th Annual Divisions of General Practice Network Forum in Perth were stimulated and challenged throughout the Forum that covered primary health care policy, Divisions performance, quality and evidence based care, access to p...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 3 - February 2006

Cultivating capacity: 3rd Annual NSW Primary Health Care Research & Evaluation Conference

1-2 December 2005, Sydney - Not surprisingly, the topic of research funding arose at a recent research forum: The 3rd Annual NSW Primary Health Care Research & Evaluation Conference. Professor Sally Redman, CEO of the SAX Institute (formerly Institute for Health Research), pointed out that th...

PHC RIS infonet: Volume 10: 2005-2006, Issue 3 - February 2006

Knowledge brokering

24-25 October 2005, Halifax, Canada - Knowledge brokering is about investing in building relationships between the users and creators of research, to achieve knowledge transfer and exchange. It complements the essential 'push' mechanisms from researchers, and 'pull' mechanisms from research u...