Aim of meeting:
To enhance healthcare providers’ understanding of current trends in vaccination rates, vaccine-preventable diseases in semi-rural areas, and the clinical management of long COVID, with a focus on evidence-based practices, prevention strategies, and effective referral pathways in primary care.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe current trends in local vaccination rates and explain recent health system changes that support vaccination delivery.
- Identify vaccine-preventable diseases in semi-rural areas and explain the reasons for their prioritisation.
- Define long COVID, including key clinical features, epidemiology, risk factors and prevention strategies.
- Apply evidence-based management of long COVID in primary care, including appropriate multidisciplinary referral.
Presented by:
Dr Rose Sacca
Public Health Physician and GP, Liverpool Public Health Unit
Emeritus Prof. Mark Harris AO
GP, International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW and Sydney Asylum Seekers Centre
Facilitated by:
Dr Fiona Mackintosh
GP from Bowral
Date & time
How to register?
Face to FaceLocation
The Gibraltar (previously known as Park Proxi Gibraltar Bowral)
7 Boronia Street
RACGP CPD Hours
This activity has been approved for the following hours and type:
2 Educational Activities hours
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