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• PHC RIS update

• NEW PHC RIS infoByte: Writing great abstracts

• Snapshot of Australian primary health care research 2010: Submissions close this Friday 12 March

• PHC Research Conference update

• Call for Abstracts closes 19 March

• Come to Darwin for the 2010 PHC Research Conference

• Articles of interest
• Do we have primary health care reform? The story of the Republic of Serbia  

• Fit for the future: A regional governance structure for a new age

• Health care reform in the United States: an opportunity for primary care?

• Integrative primary care and the internet: Opportunities and challenges
• Making health system performance measurement useful to policy makers: Aligning strategies, measurement and local health system accountability in Ontario

• Readiness for organisational change among general practice staff

• When policy meets the personal: general practice nurses in Australia  
• New reports
• International benchmarking of healthcare quality: A review of the literature
• National Health and Hospitals Network report
• Podcasts
• Public hospitals - reform overseas, ABC Radio National Podcast
• Public Hospitals in Australia: A History
• News items
• Kevin Rudd's Better Health, Better Hospitals speech
• Rudd's first steps to a healthier network
• Media releases
• Major health reform must be given a chance to deliver - Australian Medical Association
• One foot forward: National Rural Health Alliance encourages States to support reform blueprint
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing media releases
• Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital - where the rubber hits the road for reforming the nations hospital system
• Conferences/seminars/forums/workshops
• 4th biennial Rural Heath Conference
• AHHA Congress 2010
• CHA National Conference 2010
• Future proofing the aged & community care workforce
• Vacancies, fellowships & scholarships
• Professor or Associate Professor Centre for Allied Health Research
• Grants & tenders
• Options for Disclosure of Tobacco Product Ingredients and Emissions Data (Disclosure Project)
• RACGP Funding Grants - General Practice Research Grant Opportunities
• Websites to watch
• Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York

• Articles of interest
• Guidance for developers of health research reporting guidelines   

• APHCRI National Tour 2010

• Applying the quality improvement collaborative method to process redesign: A multiple case study 
• Experiences of the new role of advanced practice nurses in Swedish primary health care: A qualitative study 
• Forum on systems and complexity in medicine and health
• The "Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)" longitudinal survey - Protocol and baseline data for a prospective cohort study of Australian doctors' workforce participation 
• The challenge of co-production: How equal partnerships between professionals and the public are crucial to improving public services
• The implementation evaluation of primary care groups of practice: A focus on organizational identity 
• New reports
• Models and Frameworks for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Linking Evidence to Action  
• Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice
• Resources
• NHMRC Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal and Register
• News items
• Best practice in a scarring role: Wound Healing Laboratory
• Rudd's hospital overhaul to cost states $50b
• Media releases
• Investing in the Aged Care Workforce - $9.5 Million for Nursing Scholarships
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing media releases
• Prime Minister announces A National Health & Hospitals Network for Australia
• Conferences/seminars/forums/workshops
• 5th Biennial NSW PHC Research & Evaluation Conference
• AGPN eHealth Conference
• AGPN National Forum 2010
• Emerging findings from the English NHS Health Reforms Evaluation Programme
• Vacancies, fellowships & scholarships
• Director of Research - Eastern Health
• Morgan Stanley Pediatrics Fellowship

• PHCRED Researcher Development Program Fellow Position 2010, Discipline of General Practice, The University of Adelaide

• Grants & tenders

• PHCRED Research Seeding Grants and Bursaries 2010, Discipline of General Practice, The University of Adelaide - SA researchers only

• Calls for submissions

• 2010 Primary Health Care Research Snapshot: Call for submissions

• Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010
• NHMRC Australia Fellowship for Health and Medical Research

• PHC Research Conference update
• Registration NOW open for 2010 PHC Research Conference
• Articles of interest
• General practitioners' perceptions of the effectiveness of medical interventions: An exploration of underlying constructs 

• How far can systematic reviews inform policy development for "wicked" rural health service problems?

• Meaningful variation in performance: what does variation in quality tell us about improving [primary care] quality?

• The Healthy Kids Check - is it evidence-based?

• The impact of outcome reporting bias in randomised controlled trials on a cohort of systematic reviews 
• New reports
• Achieving Efficiency Improvements in the Health sector through ICTs - Final report
• Indigenous identification in hospital separations data quality report
• Ovarian Cancer in Australia: An Overview, 2010
• Podcasts
• Are GP Super Clinics the answer to the access problems? ANU National Health Reform Series
• NHMRC Newscast February 2010
• News items
• Science's peer system needs review
• Why we need an Australian Health and Equity Commission: Professor Fran Baum
• Media releases
• AJRH ranked as leading rural health journal
• Pharmacies – A positive health reform for patients, 23 February 2010
• Seminar to address ‘time bomb’ in rural health, National Rural Health Students’ Network
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing media releases
• $150 Million boost to health and medical research
• 83 New Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Workers to be Placed Around the Nation
• Conferences/seminars/forums/workshops
• 2nd Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium
• AES one day workshop
• AES two day workshop
• PHAA 40th Annual Conference
• Provocative Conversations
• SACHRU Seminar
• Vacancies, fellowships & scholarships
• Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellowship 2010/11
• Sylvia & Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellowships & Clinical Investigatorships
• Grants & tenders
• Evaluation of an Indigenous Child and Maternal Health Nurse Home Visiting Program
• NHMRC Partnerships for Better Health

• PHC RIS update

• Snapshot 2010: Does your PHC research demonstrate tangible outcomes for the Australian public?

• Articles of interest
• Assessing the cost-effectiveness of drug and lifestyle intervention following opportunistic screening for pre-diabetes in primary care

• Dyslipidaemia in rural Australia: prevalence, awareness, and adherence to treatment guidelines in the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study

• How do we compare? - Applying UK pay for performance indicators to an Australian general practice

• How to integrate individual patient values and preferences in clinical practice guidelines? A research protocol 
• New reports
• Fair Society, Healthy Lives, The Marmot review final WHO report
• Quality of Healthcare in Canada: A Chartbook
• Podcasts
• Evidence-based medicine
• NHMRC podcast: Collaborating against the enemy: H1N1
• The Commonwealth Fund's 2009 International Symposium on Health Care Policy
• Resources
• Online Health Program Planner
• News items
• Pharmacists seek right to prescribe, The Australian
• Media releases
• Review calls for renewed action to create a fairer society
• The nations Practice Nurses come to Melbourne
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing media releases
• Expanded Role for Medical Training Panel Will Improve Support for Australia's Health Workforce
• Conferences/seminars/forums/workshops
• 6th Australasian Redesigning Healthcare Summit
• 8th Australasian Conference on Safety and Quality in Health Care
• Delivering Policy: Implementation is the name of the game
• RCNA 2010 Nursing Summit
• Vacancies, fellowships & scholarships
• Father Frank Flynn Fellowship, Menzies School of Health Research
• The Heart Foundation Fellowships
• Grants & tenders
• 2010 Dementia Research Grants, Alzheimer's Australia
• ARC Linkage (Round 2) 2010 Funding: Rejoinders
• Asthma Foundation of South Australia (AFSA) Early Career Researcher Grant
• Bone Marrow Failure Research Program
• Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation Grants
• Diabetes Australia Research Grants

• PHC RIS update
• Where next for primary care? The February edition of PHC RIS infonet is available on-line now!
• Articles of interest
• Dementia risk reduction in primary care: What Australian initiatives can teach us
• Determinants of mental health and well-being in rural communities: Do we understand enough to influence planning and policy?
• Internet-based medical education: A realist review of what works, for whom and in what circumstances
• Managing Mental Health Conditions in Primary Care Settings
• Primary prevention from the epidemiology perspective: Three examples from the practice  
• Some unintended effects of teamwork in healthcare
• New reports
• Health and wellbeing reports with a focus on illness prevention
• Research and Development Coordination and Financing: Report of the Expert Working Group
• The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Reform - Report to the Parliament
• Podcasts
• Agenda 2010 - Health Reform: Expert panel debate
• Cautions for Australians over drug trials undertaken in India and the reporting of medical trials
• News items
• Consumers shaping health: Representing consumers on national health issues
• Men at work targeted for screening
• Mental health needs early care: Health system
• PBS costs set to blow out to $13bn,
• Media releases
• 13th CRC Selection Round opens - Manufacturing Innovation and Social Innovation Priority Areas
• Ehealth and infrastructure funding key to reform: AGPN budget submission
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing media releases
• Australia's Health Workforce
• Conferences/seminars/forums/workshops
• 11th National Rural Health Conference
• 2010 GPQ March Divisions Forum
• 6th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders
• General Practitioner Conference & Exhibition

• PHCRED Tri-State Program Conference

• PHCRED Tri-State Workshop

• Whose Challenging Behaviours: Meeting the Needs of Older People with Dementia
• Vacancies, fellowships & scholarships
• Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy
• Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Primary Care at UNSW
• Grants & tenders
• HealthInsite - Contracts, Tenders, Grants and Funding
• Healthy Communities Initiative Local Government Areas Grants: Expressions of Interest
• The Remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care Service Development Assistance Panel

• PHC Research Conference update

• Call for abstracts now open

• Articles of interest
• A framework for mandatory impact evaluation [of primary health care research] to ensure well informed public policy decisions
• Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? 
• Community health workers in health systems strengthening: A qualitative evaluation from rural Haiti
• Dyslipidaemia in rural Australia: Prevalence, awareness, and adherence to treatment guidelines in the Greater Green Triangle Risk Factor Study
• The new "Indigenous health" incentive payment: Issues and challenges
• Translating research evidence into action in daily practice
• Will financial incentives and penalties improve hospital care? 
• New reports
• Capturing Research Impacts: A review of international practice
• Knowledge translation in health care: Moving from evidence to practice
• State of the World's Indigenous Peoples: Aboriginal Australian's the worst life expectancy rates
• Podcasts
• ABC Health Report: Mental health research from Southern India: Lessons for Western nations
• BMJ Group: 12 steps to public health
• News items
• GPs lack email for discharge summaries
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing media releases
• 2010 NHMRC Australia fellowships announced
• Commercial development funding for medical research projects
• Conferences/seminars/forums/workshops
• 2010 AEA Annual Scientific Meeting
• 2nd Annual Research Officers’ Forum 2010
• Mental Health Assessment of Aboriginal Clients
• National Health Reform Series Forum
• National Medicines Symposium 2010
• Towards Social Inclusion
• Vacancies, fellowships & scholarships
• NHMRC Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship scheme update
• PHCRED Coordinator, Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University
• Research Fellow (PHCRED), Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University
• Calls for submissions
• GP study investigating the relationship between childhood maltreatment and symptoms of mental illness in women