 WA PHCRED RACGP Conference
16 October 2009, Floreat
Attended by Ellen McIntyre, PHC RIS and Lyn Brun, Statewide Coordinator, PHCRED WA
Over 50 people from around WA attended the annual WA PHCRED RACGP Conference The future of primary health care research - working together. This knowledge exchange event incorporated a number of stimulating presentations from novice to mid career researchers focusing on clinical and health service delivery.
Chronic disease featured strongly with the interim evaluation of the WA chronic disease self-management project, the Safer/Anderson model of ‘patient delay’, the wellness intervention negotiating diabetes (WIND) project and an innovative intervention using telehealth monitoring of chronic disease.
Primary health care delivery covered areas such as coronary care, pandemic influenza, STIs, chronic disease management, and aged and disadvantaged care.
Perceptions of health and health care focused on radiation, research, practice nurses and generic mediations. Presentations on prescribing statins and dispensing doctors generating much discussion from the audience as did the study on clinical auditing of disease prevention and health promotion by medical students as a learning exercise to improve the student’s application of their knowledge in this area.
A fun finish to the conference was the engaging hypothetical The future, working together in 2020 covering issues of patient recruitment and consent, confidentially, compulsory research by medical students, government incentives and the involvement of facebook, twitter and plans for iRobot-Health Practitioner who will provide evidence-based integrated clinical guideline care 24/7 from cradle to grave!
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