Queensland COVID-19 updates


Last updated 17 January 2022

This page will be updated with the latest information as it becomes available for GPs in Queensland.

The information on this page was last updated: Monday 17 January 2022 at 1pm (AEST).

Recent updates include:

  • Register Now – Webinar for GPs - Family Based Management of COVID-19. See webinars and education drop down box below for details.

You can also find nationally relevant information via the RACGP Coronavirus (COVID19) information for GPs webpage.

For up-to-the-minute information, visit the Australian Federal Government Department of Health website and subscribe to receive the bi-weekly COVID-19 newsletter for GPs from the Chief Medical Officer.


Is your practice a vaccine provider and your vaccine order has been delayed, you are short on stock and your usual alternatives aren’t available?

The Queensland Health Vaccine Command Centre has advised that your referring hospital pharmacy team may be able to provide assistance.

Please read this update

The National COVID-19 Vaccine Operations Centre reopens for orders on 4 January 2022.

Interim arrangements for managing COVID-19 in the community

The Queensland GP Alliance (of which the RACGP is a member) has written to all Queensland GPs to providing an emergent update on Queensland’s arrangements for managing COVID-19 in the community.

The letter provides details of the Queensland Health initiative to stand up an interim management model for Christmas and early new year period utilising Calvary-Medibank Home Support Services. 

Outstanding questions remain and the RACGP and the Alliance will continue to advocate or Queensland's GPs. 

Please read the letter


Access the latest updates from Queensland Health.

You can also access the QLD Health Facebook page for regular updates, patient information posters and resources.

Queensland Health have agreed to use the Federal Health Departments “Work permissions and restrictions framework for workers in health care settings” document.

This framework supports safe decision making when determining whether to place work permissions/restrictions, independent of quarantine, on a worker after a COVID-19 exposure in a health care setting in the context of an outbreak and community transmission of COVID-19.

RACGP Queensland recommends members pay particular attention to table 1 and table 4 in this document.


Register Now - Webinar for GPs: Family Based Management of COVID-19

7pm Thursday 20 January 2022

RACGP Queensland in collaboration with Queensland Children's Hospital present a webinar for Queensland based GPs. As cases of COVID-19 increase across the state, close contacts and real-life spread are often within household groups.

In this webinar, you will hear from a joint panel of GPs and specialists. Three GPs from across the state will share case studies of families they are managing with COVID, backed by best practice insights from specialists working in COVID virtual wards, including a paediatrician, obstetrician, infectious disease specialist and general practitioner.

There will also be time for Q&A at the end of the session.

Panel members:

  • Dr Meg Cairns – GP, Brisbane
  • Dr Julia Clark – Paediatric infectious diseases specialist
  • Dr Michael Clements – GP, Townsville
  • Dr KK Cheung – GP, Gold Coast
  • Dr Kate Davies – General Paediatrician, QCH
  • Dr Jane Maher – Obstetrician, SCUH
  • Dr Sandra Peters – COVID Virtual Ward Medical Lead SCUH, and GP

Register now for this free webinar!


Webinar - Living with COVID-19 planning update

Brisbane South PHN hosted the Queensland Living with COVID-19 Pathways Planning Update webinar on 6 December 2021. This webinar provided an overview of the current information available for managing COVID-19 in the community, and the role of primary care.

Watch now

PHN

Phone

Email

Website

Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast

(07) 5456 8100

info@ourphn.org.au

http://www.ourphn.org.au/

Gold Coast

(07) 5635 2455

info@gcphn.com.au

http://www.gcphn.org.au

Western Queensland

(07) 4573 1900

admin@wqphn.com.au

http://www.wqphn.com.au

Darling Downs and West Moreton

(07) 4615 0900

info@ddwmphn.com.au

http://www.ddwmphn.com.au

Northern Queensland

(07) 4034 0300

hello@primaryhealth.com.au

http://www.primaryhealth.com.au

Brisbane North

(07) 3630 7300

contactus@brisbanenorthphn.org.au

http://www.brisbanenorthphn.org.au

Brisbane South

1300 467 265

contactus@bsphn.org.au

http://www.bsphn.org.au


RACGP Queensland

Phone: (07) 3456 8944

Email: qld.faculty@racgp.org.au

Join the RACGP Queensland Facebook group to chat with your colleagues and stay up to date.

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