Amended Lecture details- Professor Jesper Bo Nielsen & Professor Jens Søndergaard Thurs 11 October

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The challenge of communicating quantitative risk estimates – what is important for the decision maker?

Professor Jesper Bo Nielsen

Developing and monitoring quality in primary care in a Danish setting

Professor Jens Søndergaard

THURSDAY 11th october, 12:30 -1:30pm

Building 28.101 Lunch to follow in Building 28 Foyer

Registration required: Please register attendance using the following URL

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/free-guest-lecture-professor-jesper-bo-nielsen-tickets-50896060487

SPEAKERS

Professor Jesper Bo Nielsen

Head of Department,

Research Unit of General Practice,

Department of Public Health
University of Southern Denmark, SDU

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Jens Søndergaard

Head of Research Unit,

Research Unit of General Practice,

Department of Public Health
University of Southern Denmark, SDU

 

  

about JESPER BO NIELSEN

Jesper Bo Nielsen is Head of Department and Research Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark. He has a background in biology and chemistry and was originally trained as experimental toxicologist. He completed his master thesis on environmental factors affecting the cytochrome P450 enzymes. His PhD from 1992 focused on the toxicokinetics of inorganic as well as organic mercury compounds. During recent years, Jesper Bo Nielsen has attracted substantial funding and initiated independent research projects within areas such as immunotoxicology, dermal absorption, risk analysis and risk communication.

 

about Jens Søndergaard

In 2008 MD, GP, PhD Jens Søndergaard was appointed professor and head of the Research Unit for General Practice at University of Southern Denmark. He is currently also director of the independent Research Institution, The research Unit for General Practice in Odense. Furthermore, he is member of a number of steering committees, advisory boards and scientific research boards. Prof. Jens Søndergaard has considerable experience in research management. He is also pa part-time general practitioner and holds a specialist degree in clinical pharmacology.

The Danish Health Care System and Developing Quality in Primary Health Care LECTURE

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THURSDAY 11th October, 12:30 -1:30PM

SPEAKER

Professor Jesper Bo Nielsen

Head of Department, MSc, Ph.D.

University of Southern Denmark, SDU

Research Unit of General Practice

Department of Public Health

Denmark

 

 

 

About the speaker

Jesper Bo Nielsen is Head of Department and Research Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark.

 

He has a background in biology and chemistry and was originally trained as experimental toxicologist. He completed his master thesis on environmental factors affecting the cytochrome P450 enzymes. His PhD from 1992 focused on the toxicokinetics of inorganic as well as organic mercury compounds. During recent years, Jesper Bo Nielsen has attracted substantial funding and initiated independent research projects within areas such as immunotoxicology, dermal absorption, risk analysis and risk communication.

 

 

location

Building 28 room 101

 

 

registration required

Please register attendance using the following URL

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/free-guest-lecture-professor-jesper-bo-nielsen-tickets-50896060487

 

Illawarra Mercury Article: Stress leads junior doctors to drink more and burnout: UOW study finds

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Stress leads junior doctors to drink more and burnout: UOW study finds

During her early days in the medical profession Dr Rebekah Hoffman found herself “not giving a sh**”.

She wasn’t happy and work was the last place in the world she wanted to be.

But quitting was “one of the best things” she has ever done.

Dr Hoffman didn’t know it at the time, but she was burnt out.

“It’s only really in hindsight that I knew I was burnt out,” she told the Mercury.

“At the time I just knew that I wasn’t happy and I didn’t want to keep working where I was working and I was trying to not go to work every day.”

Dr Hoffman is now a practising GP and a PhD student at UOW Graduate Medicine’s General Practice Academic Unit (GPAU).

Read more: Hospitals on notice about doctor burnout

She also recently conducted a study which found a volatile combination of factors, including pressure to perform, lack of support from senior colleagues and lack of self-care, puts junior doctors at high risk of burnout.

The physical and mental health of medical professionals has been in the spotlight following a survey published in 2013 by mental health organisation beyondblue that found doctors in Australia have substantially higher rates of psychological distress and attempted suicide than the Australian population.

Dr Hoffman surveyed junior doctors in NSW and Victoria to understand the experience of burnout and its causes.

She hoped the study co-authored by Professor Andrew Bonney, the Roberta Williams Chair of General Practice at UOW Graduate Medicine, would contribute to the important conversation around the health and wellbeing of junior doctors.

“I actually now train registras in general practice. One of the first things I talk to them about is fatigue and looking after yourself,” Dr Hoffman said.

“I want them to talk up and talk to me if they are having any problems at work or home. I’m really trying to be the supervisor that I’d hoped I would’ve had then but didn’t. Junior doctors deal with a lot of stress from their peers and patients.

“We need to recognise the early signs such as not giving a sh** about work, drinking too much and generally just not looking after themselves.

“Junior doctors need to know it’s okay to look after yourself and to let people know if you’re struggling.”

Read more: Why this UOW academic had to return to work four days after breast cancer surgery

Doctor burnout not only affects the individual, it can lead to increased absenteeism and depression, medical errors and engaging in risky alcohol use.

Some hospitals have put in place resilience training, and organisations such as the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists have commissioned reviews into guidelines for doctor stress and fatigue.

Dr Hoffman said the measures are good first step, but were incomplete and needed to be supplemented with evidence-based strategies that do not shift blame to the junior doctor.

“If we don’t address it, nothing changes. This is an opportunity to introduce new policies and guidelines in doctor training,” she said.

‘Junior doctors, burnout and wellbeing: Understanding the experience of burnout in general practice registrars and hospital equivalents’, was published recently in the Australian Journal of General Practice.

https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/5630972/uow-study-reveals-whats-causing-junior-doctors-to-burn-out/

ISPRN presentations at Wollongong Hospital Grand Rounds

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Dear ISPRN members,

You are invited to attend presentations by the ISPRN team at Wollongong Hospitals’ Grand Rounds on Thursday 4 October.

The presentations will take place at Wollongong Hospital, TWH Auditorium, Level 8, Block C at 1pm.
Lunch is provided for attendees from 12:50pm

Presentation 1: Mr Tim Miller –
“A multidisciplinary case conference model for the conservative management of hip and knee osteoarthritis”
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Presentation 2: A/Prof Joel Rhee –
“Integrating Advance Care Planning into routine care”

Hospital grand rounds

If you are interested in attending could you please let me know.

Kind Regards

Alyssa Horgan
Research Officer

Equip GP Trial Media Story

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Dear ISPRN members,

Please find story below on the Equip GP trial. This article was published by the RACGP.

Large-scale RACGP-backed trials of quality and continuity of care about to commence

The Flinders-QUEST and EQuIP-GP randomised controlled trials will involve thousands of patients and dozens of GP clinics. They are funded by a $5 million Federal Government grant given to the RACGP to support research into quality care.

The trials come after the RACGP withdrew its support for the Government’s Health Care Home trial.
At last weeks’ Primary Health Care Research Conference in Melbourne, the chief investigators of both projects told the crowd that recruited GP clinics had been very enthusiastic.

The trials, which are expected to begin next month, are focusing on older people, people with chronic or complex disease, and children and adolescents under the age of 17. These three groups are at higher risk of poor health outcomes.

The University of Wollongong (UOW)-led EQuIP-GP (Effectiveness of Quality Incentive Payments in General Practice) trial will test the efficacy of giving GPs quality incentive payments for an increase in quality indicators, such as longer consultations, rapid follow-up after hospitalisation, reduced prescriptions and same day access. The trial is intended to operate with up to 1800 patients, and will also run through Monash University and the University of Tasmania.

UOW Chief Investigator Professor Andrew Bonney told the conference there is a ‘perverse incentive’ at present, as undertaking longer consultations currently means a drop in income for GPs. He said the trial would ensure that no extra payment would be made without evidence that quality indicators were being met.

The Flinders University QUEST (QUality Enhanced general practice Services Trial) will test whether continuity of care, longer GP consultations, assertive follow-up of patients after hospital discharge, and same-day appointments for children with an acute condition are linked to better health outcomes, such as less use of pathology, imaging and medications, and a lower risk of hospitalisation.

The trial is aiming to recruit 1100 patients across 20 South Australian clinics.

There is emerging evidence overseas in favour of these four interventions, and the trial will test whether these can be generalised to the Australian context.

QUEST Chief Investigator Professor Richard Reed told the conference the GPs they have been recruiting were strongly positive about the test.

A researcher asked Professor Reed whether longer GP consultations might actually ‘open up a can of worms’ by discovering more and more health concerns.

Professor Reed said that was the point of a two-sided P-value.

‘We’re not sure what we’re going to find – that’s clinical equipoise,’ he said.

The trials are expected to run until December 2019. The RACGP will consolidate the findings and present a final report to the Department of Health.

Save the Date- ISPRN research conference & workshop

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Dear ISPRN members,

We will be holding our annual research showcase on Sat 3 November at Nowra Golf Club. Members of ISPRN will be presenting on the research projects that they have been working on over the last 12 months.

We will also be holding a research workshop, the topic of which will be advised shortly.

We hope that you will be able to join us!

Kind Regards
Alyssa Horgan

Ideas for next ISPRN workshop

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Dear ISPRN Members,

We are in the process of arranging our next ISPRN workshop.

We want to seek your ideas on what would be of use to you? eg. analysing and interpreting results, critically reviewing the literature, publishing research, how to go about getting involved in research? etc.
Are there other research related topics that you would be interested in learning about?

It’ important to us that we tailor our research workshops to the needs of our members, so please email me your suggestions. I’d love to hear from you. amunkman@uow.edu.au

We are looking to hold this workshop in October/November. Could you also please advise whether there are dates within this period that don’t work for you.

If you have any other questions or comments please feel free to touch base with me.

Alyssa Horgan
Research Officer, ISPRN, UOW
(02) 4221 5819