6.30-8.00

Registration open

6.30-8.00

Welcome reception

8.30-5.30

Registration open

8.30-5.30

Speakers' preparation room open

9.00-12.00

Concurrent workshops (including morning tea)

1. Applied health informatics: what is not being shared that should be?
2. Practice-based research networks-essential to health of the nation … or an obscure hobby?
3. Improving patient and carer experience
4. Meta ethnography and the synthesis of qualitative research
5. Addressing the workforce challenge: APHCRI Stream Six-the number of workers optimising the workforce and the place of generalism
6. Writing for change

12.00-1.30

LUNCH

Heads of Departments of General Practice Meeting (by invitation)

1.30-3.00

Official Opening - Libby Kalucy

Welcome to Country

Plenary session: Working together-setting the scene
Chair: Libby Kalucy

• Promoting the general practitioner researcher: working together to improve health globally - Chris van Weel,
• Patient participation in health care consultations - Nicky Britten
• Impacting on cancer in Australia - the role of primary care - David Currow

3.00-3.30

AFTERNOON TEA

3.30-5.00

APHCRI plenary session: Working together on policy and practice
Facilitator: Norman Swan

Welcome Professor Nicholas Glasgow (Director, APHCRI)

• Professor John Wakerman ( Director of the Centre for Remote Health, APHCRI Research Spoke team leader): “Designing sustainable primary health care systems that can deal with the chronic disease epidemic”
• Professor Nicholas Glasgow “What is the evidence on chronic disease in PHC that needs to go into PHC practice and policy - what we know, what we don't know and where policy can make a difference?”

Panel and audience discussion
“Are we fair dinkum about getting research into policy and practice when it comes to chronic disease management?”

Panellists:

• Richard Eccles, First Assistant Secretary of the Primary and Ambulatory Care Division in the Department of Health and Ageing
• Myra Pincott, rural consumer & Past President CWA
• Bonnie Sibbald, international health services researcher
• Christopher Pearce, GP, researcher and AGPN Board Member
• John Wakerman
• Nicholas Glasgow

How workforce research has worked - John Wakerman

7.00

AAAGP DINNER
Guest speaker: Chris van Weel

Breakfast sessions

7.45-8.45

1 NHMRC mock panel - Jane Gunn, Jon Emery

7.45-8.45

2 Innovative Approaches to Research Training - Robyn Preston & Libby Holden

7.45-8.45

3 Where and how can we conduct youth health research more effectively? - Carol Kefford

8.30-5.30

Registration open

8.30-5.30

Speakers' preparation room open

9.00-10.30

AAAGP plenary session: Working together on research
Chair: Mark Nelson

AAAGP distinguished paper presentations

9.00-9.30

• Findings of the WHO ASSSIST Phase III study in an Australian primary health care setting: a five-minute brief intervention for illicit drugs reduces substance use - Rachel Humeniuk, Collaborating Centre for Research in the Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Problems, World Health Organization

9.30-10.00

• Getting evidence into policy: integrated governance arrangements in health care - Claire Jackson, Jenny Doust, Discipline of General Practice, University of Queensland

10.00-10.30

Commentary from Professor Chris van Weel

10.30-11.30

AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST MORNING TEA and Poster viewing part 1

11.30-12.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Building research capacity 1
2. Consumers in research 1
3. Getting evidence into practice 1
4. Partnerships and collaborations 1
5. Primary health care delivery 1
6. Quality of care
7. Research and evaluation methodology 1

12.30-2.00

LUNCH
including ‘special interest' tables for networking

2.00-3.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Equity and access
2. Getting evidence into practice 2
3. Illness prevention and health promotion 1
4. Managing chronic disease 1
5. Mental health
6. Population health
7. Primary health care delivery 2

3.30-4.30

AFTERNOON TEA and Poster viewing part 2

4.30-6.00

AAAGP meeting

7.15

Boarding time for the Conference Dinner Dance - boarding in Darling Harbour in front of Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre

7.30-10.30

CONFERENCE DINNER DANCE Cruising Together

8.30-2.00

Registration open

8.30-2.00

Speakers' preparation room open

9.00-10.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Consumers in research 2
2. Getting evidence into practice 3
3. Indigenous health
4. Linkage and exchange 1
5. Managing chronic disease 2
6. Primary health care delivery 3
7. Research and evaluation methodology 2

10.30-11.00

MORNING TEA

11.00-12.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Building research capacity 2
2. GP and PHC workforce
3. Illness prevention and health promotion 2
4. Managing chronic disease 3
5. Partnerships and collaborations 2
6. Primary health care delivery 4
7. Research and evaluation methodology 3

12.30-2.00

LUNCH
including ‘special interest' tables for networking

2.00-3.00

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Building research capacity 3
2. Getting evidence into policy
3. Linkage and exchange 2
4. Managing chronic disease 4
5. Partnerships and collaborations 3
6. Primary health care delivery 5
7. Rural health

3.00-3.30

AFTERNOON TEA

3.30-5.00

Final plenary session: Working together beyond the present
Chair: Ellen McIntyre

3.30 - 4.30

• Working together for research impact - Libby Kalucy
• Reflections on working together - Nicky Britten
• Awards - AAAGP First time presenter, PHC RIS Best Poster, NICS Evidence into Action

4.30 - 5.00

Closing of Conference - Minister for Health, The Honourable Tony Abbott

5.00-6.00

FAREWELL DRINKS