South Western Sydney PHN (SWSPHN) plays a role in supporting Quality Improvement (QI) in general practice with strategies to embed QI systems, improve data quality, analyse the practice’s data and identify areas for improvement, assist with goal setting and improvement activities, provide progress reports and feedback. Ultimately, quality improvement activities will lead to improved clinical care and patient outcomes in general practice.
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Primary Care Resources
QIPC downloads
Find user guides, reports, templates, videos and posters related to QIPC .
Primary Care Resources
POLAR resources
What are the benefits of POLAR GP? Simple interface and layout Only a single installation is required at your practice....
Primary Care Resources
Quality Improvement in Primary Care Program FAQs
Find answers to questions about privacy, policies, funding and how to get involved in QIPC.
Primary Care Resources
QIPC policies and procedures
Downloads and links to QIPC related policies and procedures.
Primary Care Resources
POLAR Walrus – for quick patient insights
Walrus is a flexible point of care tool developed by Outcome Health to support clinicians and practice staff to pull up insights...
QIPC initiatives
Practice Incentive Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI)
The PIP Quality Improvement (QI) Incentive commenced on 1 August 2019. The seven other PIP incentives include: eHealth (Digital Health)...
POLAR GP
South Western Sydney PHN (SWSPHN) provides the POLAR (POpulation Level Analysis and Reporting) clinical audit tool to general practices in South Western Sydney....
Cleansing guides
User guide
QIPC Data cleansing guide
Your step-by-step guide to cleansing practice data. This cleansing guide uses CAT4 (previously PenCAT) to identify inactive & duplicate patients, patients with no DOB or gender recorded, as well as missing accreditation items from your practice software.
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2 Pages (388 kb)
User guide
Alcohol: QIPC cleansing guide
Quality improvement ideas for recording your patients’ records on alcohol.
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1 Pages (76 kb)
User guide
Allergies: QIPC cleansing guide
Quality improvement ideas for recording your patients’ records on allergies.
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1 Pages (118 kb)
User guide
BMI and waist: QIPC cleansing guide
Quality improvement ideas for recording your patients’ records on BMI and waist.
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1 Pages (143 kb)
User guide
Blood pressure: QIPC cleansing guide
Quality improvement ideas for recording your patients’ records on blood pressure.
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1 Pages (95 kb)
User guide
Ethnicity: QIPC cleansing guide
Quality improvement ideas for recording your patients’ records on ethnicity.
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1 Pages (119 kb)
User guide
Physical activity: QIPC cleansing guide
Quality improvement ideas for recording your patients’ records on physical activity.
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1 Pages (143 kb)
QIPC resources
Training guide
QIPC CAT4 How to guide
Training guide
QIPC Faq
Templates and forms