6.00-8.00

Registration open

6.00-8.00

Welcome reception

8.00-5.30

Registration open

8.00-5.30

Speakers' preparation room open

9.00–12.00

Concurrent workshops (including morning tea)

1. Linkage and exchange: researchers and policy makers working together to improve health
2. Men's Health: A Missing Chapter in Australia's Health Narrative
3. How to improve evaluations of complex interventions in primary care
4. Health for all young people: research, practice and policy implications
5. From evidence to practice: a multi-faceted approach to implementing evidence - includes case study approach
6. Indigenous Research Capacity Building

12.00–1.30

Lunch

1.30–3.00

Welcome to Country

Official Opening – Tasmanian Minister for Health & Human Services The Honourable Lara Giddings

Launch - Snapshot of Australian primary health care research. Federal Minister for Health The Honourable Nicola Roxon (video).

Opening plenary – Challenges and Torchbearers
Chair: Libby Kalucy

• The harder it is to research the more significant it is likely to be: comprehensive primary health care and the challenges it poses for researchers in the 21st century – Fran Baum

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services - torchbearers of primary health care – Mick Adams

3.00–3.30

Afternoon tea

3.30–5.00

AAAGP plenary – Australian evidence
Chair: Mark Nelson

• Spirometry training for GPs and practice nurses: is it feasible and beneficial to asthma patients? – Justin Beilby
• Skin patients and their doctors – an uneasy relationship: results of a qualitative study – Parker Magin

Panel: Grant Blashki, Mark Harris, Geoffrey Mitchell, Nigel Stocks

5.00-6.30

AAAGP meeting

7.30

AAAGP dinner – Café Toulouse

7.30-8.45

Breakfast sessions

• Early career GP researchers: How the RACGP and PHCRED Strategy can help you initiate your research project. - Teri Snowdon and Robyn Preston
• Addressing health inequalities through primary care: Progress over 10 years and opportunities for renewal - John Furler

8.00-5.30

Registration open

8.00-5.30

Speakers' preparation room open

9.00–10.30

APHCRI plenary – Chronic affairs
Chair: Kirsty Douglas

• Caring for people with chronic illness – international experiences - Ellen Nolte
• Navigating General Practice and Primary Care – a local story from abroad - Paul Grinzi
• Commentary - Kirsty Douglas

10.30–11.30

Morning tea & Poster walk - Part 1

11.30–12.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Equity and access
2. Getting Evidence in Policy
3. Getting Evidence in Practice 1
4. Illness Prevention and Health Promotion 1
5. Managing Chronic Disease 1
6. Partnerships and Collaborations 1

12.30–2.00

Lunch

2.00–3.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Illness Prevention and Health Promotion 2
2. Indigenous Health
3. Managing Chronic Disease 2
4. Mental Health 1
5. Quality of care
6. Research and Evaluation Methodology

3.30–4.00

Afternoon tea & Poster walk - Part 2

4.00–5.30

Plenary – Past, present and future
Chair: John Furler

• 30 years on from Alma Ata: Where have we come from? Where are we going? - Trisha Greenhalgh
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care - the cornerstone of health gains - Mark Wenitong

6.00–7.00

Reception at Government House (by invitation)

7.30–midnight

Conference Dinner – Hobart Function & Conference Centre

7.30-8.45

Breakfast session

• Early postdoctoral and post-Masters researchers – John Furler and Parker Magin

8.00-2.00

Registration open

8.00-2.00

Speakers' preparation room open

9.00–10.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. Building research capacity
2. Getting evidence into practice 2
3. Illness Prevention and Health Promotion 3
4. Mental Health 2
5. Patient focus in Chronic Disease
6. Primary health care delivery

10.30–11.00

Morning tea & Poster walk - Part 3

11.00–12.30

Concurrent paper sessions

1. BEACH - Measuring The Impact Of Policy On Practice
2. eHealth
3. Partnerships and collaborations 2
4. Population health
5. Rural and remote health
6. Systems in health care

12.30–2.00

Lunch

2.00–3.00

Final Plenary - Beyond now
Chair: Ellen McIntyre

• What have we learned - Ellen Nolte
• Vision for stronger primary health care research by 2020 – Mark Harris

Awards
AAAGP Best Paper Presentation,
PHC RIS Best Poster,
NICS Evidence into Action Prize

Close

3.00–3.30

Farewell afternoon tea