Presenters:
Melissa Kang et al

Introduction
What is YHRIG  and what are our aims?

Short snap shots given by YHRIG members on empowering General Practice through education, adequate remuneration and breaking down barriers.

Discussion groups facilitated by members of YHRIG assisted by young people. Each group will discuss one of the following topics:

• Education of GPs, medical students, GP registrars and Practice nurses
  • What resources are still needed?
• Remuneration for GPs for preventative health consultations for adolescents
  • Will a specific item number for adolescents and bulk billing incentives work?
• Breaking down barriers
  • Is it useful for young people to have their own ‘Medicare’ card?
  • Should this be sent routinely to all young people at age 15?

AAAGP is auspicing a Heads of Department breakfast meeting prior to the AAAGP Plenary. AAAGP will be holding it at an on-site venue to be decided. This room will have video and teleconferencing facilities so those who don't attend the conference can still attend this meeting.

Presenters:
Sam Chakraborty et al

Target audience
This workshop will be useful to GP researchers, research associates, study coordinators and other primary care researchers interested in undertaking research within a general practice setting.

Aim
To highlight how the Clinical Audit Tool can be used to streamline research processes and to build researcher skills in using the tool for research purposes.

Content
The Clinical Audit Tool (CAT) was recently created to facilitate efficient and thorough self examination of an individual practice.  The ability for the CAT to collate this information in a way that selectively avoids identifying individual patients, enables it a very useful tool for researchers that can considerably reduce the time and cost of clinical evaluations.
After a brief introduction to the CAT, researchers will learn about the capacity for CAT to be used as a research tool to audit patient or practice records to obtain data, or to identify eligible participants.  A real life example will demonstrate how the CAT has been used effectively and safetly to undertake an evaluation of a specific set of medical records within investigator-defined parameters.  Workshop participants will then be invited to suggest a potential topic for evaluation and will receive a step-by-step demonstration on how this information can be obtained using CAT.  Enthusiastic audience members may also wish to have a go at undertaking their own 'audit' with an experienced CAT facilitator providing guidance throughout the process.

Method and extent of audience participation
The workshop will be divided into two sections.  First, a brief presentation will introduce audience members to the CAT and will highlight appropriate uses of the CAT for research purposes.  Members of the audience will then be invited to design a research audit themselves using the sample database and learn step-by-step instructions about how to undertake an audit.  Enthusiastic audience members will then have an opportunity to specify a topic of interest and undertake a corresponding research audit themselves.

Presenters:
Elizabeth Comino et al

Aim
The aim of this workshop is to discuss facilitators and barriers to access to best practice primary health care.

Background
In Australia, while people generally have good access to general practice care, access to ‘best practice’ primary health care (PHC) is more limited. The barriers are complex and include (but are not limited to) service availability, organisational issues, costs, and patient propensity to seek care. The Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity has been funded to undertake a narrative review of the literature examining drivers and barriers to access to ‘best practice’ PHC in the Australian context.

Using two examples - patients with diabetes and prevention of cancer, the workshop will discuss the following in the Australian context:

• What is ‘best practice’ PHC and how can it be measured?
• What are the facilitators and barriers to access to best practice PHC?
• What are the key policies initiatives that have attempted to influence these?
• What programs have been established to improve access to ‘best practice PHC? Have these been evaluated and how?

Who should attend
The workshop would be of benefit to people with an interest in access to PHC and in strategies and policies to address these.

Format
We will provide attendees with documentation of our approach to the narrative review, a conceptual framework, and draft report of preliminary review findings:
5 minutes welcome and introduction
10-15 min presentation
the remainder of the session will be an open discussion to seek input into the development of the review.