Resources and references

Web resources

Medicare Benefits Schedule online, Medicare item numbers explained: MBS online(opens in a new window)

Royal Australian College of General Practitioner resources

Guidelines(opens in a new window)

What is general practice?(opens in a new window)

What is a rural general practice?(opens in a new window)

Becoming a general practitioner(opens in a new window)

National Health and Medical Research Council 

Health Pathways explained - video(opens in a new window)

A GP explains how they have introduced eHealth Records to to their patients(opens in a new window)

What are Health Care homes?(opens in a new window)

Primary Health Networks

Primary Health Network data from Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing (AIHW)

Primary health care, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)

Mortality Over Regions and Time (MORT) books

Cancer incidence in Australia by Primary Health Network

Cancer screening in Australia by Primary Health Network

Australia's mothers and babies 2013(opens in a new window)

Workforce data(opens in a new window)

Indigenous health check (MBS 715) data tool(opens in a new window)

Other sources of Primary Health Network data

PHN Key demographic data: Department of Health(opens in a new window)

Australian Health datasets: MyHealthyCommunities

Interactive site on Australian Health Data and its determinants: Population Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU)

Australian datasets from broad range of topics: data.gov.au(opens in a new window)

Videos for working with general practice

Life as a Rural GP – 7 minutes(opens in a new window)

Five years in general practice (English)(opens in a new window)

3 biscuits and a coffee - A day in the life of a GP (NHS)(opens in a new window)

Occupational video – General Practitioners (6 minutes - Canada)(opens in a new window)

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners advertisement for GP (Australian 2 minutes)(opens in a new window)

The Good GP (Rural Australian GP)(opens in a new window)

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners – our story 3 minutes(opens in a new window)

Practice Nursing: 4 practice nurses in Queensland – 10 minutes (opens in a new window)

Practice Managers: IPN practice manager (advertisement for practice) 2 minutes(opens in a new window)

References

Department of Health 2015a, New Primary Health Networks to deliver better local care(opens in a new window), viewed 22 February 2016.

Department of Health 2015b, Primary Health Networks. Grant programme guidelines(opens in a new window), viewed 15 February 2016.