Clinical and practice management

February 2023 - Increasingly patients are living with multiple chronic diseases. General Practitioners (GPs), as expert generalists in the health system, provide holistic management and play a vital role in care coordination. When patients are referred for specialist care there can sometimes be a disconnect with the GP.

The patient medical record systems used in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) are not compatible with those used in general practice.

Electronic clinical decision support (eCDS) is well established in general practice but it has potential to play an even greater role in supporting the delivery of high-quality, evidence based care

The RACGP supports mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers

The PC4 guide provides an understanding re budgets for primary care practice-based research, as an RACGP supported position statement

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds promise for general practice and its patients, but the risks that it poses must be carefully mitigated

Extensive peer reviewed research consistently demonstrates stark health inequalities for people with intellectual disability or developmental disability

Climate change resulting from human activity is affecting our relationship with our environment and presents an urgent, significant and growing threat to health worldwide

The RACGP supports patient centred decisions in end-of-life care and respect that this may include palliative care and requests for voluntary assisted dying

General practice has a significant role in the prevention of management of obesity. This role should be supported by increased funding for evidenced based services and therapies and greater investment into research

The RACGP advocates for the coordination of all resources and services to optimise child health and development

The RACGP recognises that GPs are an integral part of providing holistic and collaborative care during all phases of the antenatal and postnatal periods

This position statement outlines what advance care planning is and the reasons why the College believes it should be incorporated into routine general practice

The RACGP believes that a patient-centred medical home model establishes the conditions for optimal mental health care

Clear and agreed systems for receiving and following-up on test results are needed to ensure safe and effective continuity of patient care

Resources including a position statement, patient information and a template letter to CAM practitioners.

RACGP National Rural Faculty strongly advocates for the expansion of current policy and funding to support rural GPs in acquiring and maintaining the full range of advanced skills

To secure a strong general practice workforce for the future more needs to be done to ensure locally trained graduates are retained for the local workforce

GPs are faced with the pressing need to help patients manage chronic and debilitating conditions, with chronic pain affecting approximately one in five people

The RACGP has developed this statement to outline our position in supporting optimal medicine

Evidence based point of care testing (PoCT) should be accessible via general practice through Medicare and unnecessary regulatory barriers to its adoption in general practice should be removed

The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) was introduced in 2012 and renamed My Health Record in 2016

RACGP Rural strongly advocates for policies that provide supportive structures to enable the required service integration to facilitate quality GP-led patient-centred mental healthcare in rural and remote communities