03 February 2026
SWSPHN’s The Common Ground CPD series brings together allied health providers and GPs to discuss chronic conditions which are prevalent in our region.
Panel members discuss case studies and highlight opportunities to network and collaborate with other professions.
SWSPHN held two Common Ground events in 2025. Here’s a sample of what you can expect from future meetings.
At our The Common Ground chronic pain face-to-face meeting:
- GP, Dr Lance Holland-Keen talked about the barriers to care he had experienced and the scarcity of pain specialists in the region
- Liverpool Hospital Senior Physiotherapist Matthew McMullan talked about strategies GPs could use to improve access to the Liverpool Pain Management Clinic, including issues around the quality of documentation and how GP referral letters were an important triage tool
- SWSPHN’s Brendan Chiew talked about using the Home Medicines Review, and interactions of medications and supplements
At our The Common Ground obesity webinar:
- GP, Dr Holland-Keen discussed how no movement was worse than some movement and few conditions truly contraindicate exercise
- Dietitian Tania Hillman talked about how a dietitian’s role was to help rebuild a healthy relationship between food and the person which had been damaged by unhelpful ideologies of dieting and weight as the sole measure of success
- Exercise Physiologist Jacob Abella noted the common advice of “eat less, move more” ignored biopsychosocial and environmental influences
Visit our website to find upcoming The Common Ground CPD events.