Providing valuable education opportunities for healthcare workers
Every second month, SEMPHN hosts free Practice Network Meetings for practice managers and practice nurses who relish the opportunity to learn from key speakers and network with their peers.
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South East Melbourne is home to 485 general practices made up of 2,786 GPs, 317 practice managers and 894 nurses. Their professions are dedicated to keeping our community well, which requires their knowledge to be expansive and their learning continuous. Having effective practice processes and keeping across current and potential health and practice issues are key to success.
Our focus at SEMPHN is providing needs-based and targeted education opportunities for local health care providers to support their capacity to deliver quality care. Every second month, we host free
Practice Network Meetings for practice managers and practice nurses who relish the opportunity to learn from key speakers and network with their peers. The topics are informed by current challenges identified by managers and nurses that practices may be facing, topical health issues and important protocol updates. As part of our yearly planning and schedule, we also collaborate with leading health providers or organisations to provide specialised and accredited training opportunities for health professionals.
A snapshot of 2022–2023 education opportunities
events
attendees
attendance growing annually
Practice Network Meetings
- MBS Billing and Compliance
- Recruiting and retaining staff
- Identifying and mitigating risk for Practice Managers
- Diabetes update
- Cancer Screening (Breast Bowel and Cervical)
- Wound Care
- Occupational Violence Prevention and Management
- End of year wellbeing event- Self-care and preventing burnout
Collaborative Education Events
Planned and delivered with other Primary Health Networks, Primary Health Units, Health Services and external organisations, both public and private.
- Covid based topics- Covid Surge updates and Covid care in General Practice
- South east Public Health unit – Monkey Pox update
- Suicide prevention
- Care Coordination
- Advanced Care Planning
- Victorian PHNs collaboration Immunisation updates
- Project work undertaking by SEMPHN – Hepatitis C QIP
- Digital Health Initiatives
of attendees who completed our survey said the event was entirely relevant to their profession
of attendees who completed our survey said the learning outcomes were entirely met
What attendees had to say:
“Thank you. Always good to be exposed to what we need to learn more about.”
“Very informative speaker and entertaining... thank you for organising this evening- it was nice to network.”
“Loved this session, definitely learnt a lot. The presenter was very engaging and provided many examples for us to gain a better understanding. Role plays were challenging and fun at the same time whilst learning a lot.”
A look inside our 2022 end of year event
In November 2022, eighty-five general practice staff (including GPs, practice managers, practice nurses and reception staff) attended our end of year education and wellbeing event. Held at Atura Hotel in Eumemmering, it was the first face-to-face gathering possible since COVID restrictions, and had a strong focus on self-care and burnout prevention. The event also provided an opportunity for people to network and SEMPHN to say thank you for another big and challenging year.
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