COVID-19 General Practice Information Pack
Latest COVID-19 Updates to Clinicians
Click here for a list of updates sent to clinicians
Practice Checklist Triage and Plan
- Checklist - Primary Health Care Service COVID-19 Checklist
- Reception Checklist during COVID-19 Pandemic
- COVID-19 General Practice Preparation Guide
- COVID-19 Daily Management Plan
- COVID-19 Triage Response sheet
- Practice plan - COVID-19 Practice plan sample
- COVID-19 Assessment and Management flowchart
- Suggested script for on hold phone message info re: COVID-19
Public Health Information
- Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) National guidelines for public health units - summarises recommendations for surveillance, infection control, laboratory testing and contact management for coronavirus disease
- Department of Health Emergency response plan
- Frontline COVID-19 advice from the Qld Clinical Senate and Qld Clinical Network chairs
- Infection control guidance - The Queensland Health Interim infection prevention and control guidelines for the management of COVID-19 in healthcare settings
Notification forms:
- Central West Qld
- North West Qld notification form
- South West Qld notification form
Clinical Information
- COVID-19 Temporary MBS Telehealth Services See Fact Sheet (MBS Online)
- Management of mild COVID-19
- COVID-19 information for GPs from RACGP - new
- Healthcare worker physical distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic
- Information about home isolation when unwell suspected or confirmed cases
- Information for health care and residential care workers
- COVID-19 General Advice
- Home Isolation Fact Sheet
- Quarantine Fact Sheet
- GP Assessment and management of patients with suspected COVID-19 - updated
- COVID-19 Clearance Certificate Template
- Comparison between Cold, Flu and Coronavirus
- Managing abusive client/patient behaviour – Resource List for Health Care Workers
CPR Flowcharts
The National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce, in partnership with the Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG), has published new clinical flowcharts to guide clinicians and trained first aid responders in delivering potentially lifesaving CPR as safely as possible.
- Preparedness for CPR during the COVID-19 pandemic
- CPR of adults with COVID-19 in healthcare settings
- Basic life support for adults in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic
Infection Control and Pandemic Management Guidelines
- Cross-border travel for essential healthcare- Provider Factsheet
- Infection prevention control standards - RACGP
- Managing pandemic influenza in general practice
- Routine Environmental cleaning and disinfection in the community
- COVID-19 Infection control training
Pathology Testing and Cleaning Protocols
PHLN guidance on laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2 (virus causing COVID-19)
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Information on the use of surgical masks
- Distribution of eye protection through PHNs: Tranche 4
- Correct use of PPE
- PPE Information for general practices
- WHO hand rub and wash poster
P2/N95 masks: ‘fit-testing’ vs ‘fit-checking’
- Fit-testing refers to a formal process of testing the seal achieved with a mask via exposure to a strongly-smelling substance which should be filtered out by the mask. If fit-testing is easily available, then it can be considered. However:
- Fit testing consumes P2/N95 masks, which are in short supply
- Fit testing needs to be repeated if staff gain / lose weight
- A fit-test does not remove the need for a fit-check with each mask use
Fit-checking is the process of ensuring a mask achieves a good seal once it has been applied and should occur each time a mask is donned, even if fit testing has previously been undertaken.
COVID-19 Posters
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) messaging about COVID-19
- Information for travellers - know the signs poster
- Information for travellers - stop the spread poster
- PATIENT ALERT POSTERS
- Resources for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people and remote communities
Consumer Information
- Multilingual patient and practice resources - COVID-19
- Staying Infection Free - education module
- What you need to know
- Information for casual contacts of a confirmed case
- Information for residents of residential aged care services and family members
- Information for schools and early childhood centres students and parents
- Information for universities higher education and vocational education facilities, their students and staff
- COVID-19 - Local GP advice from North Coast PHN
- Self-isolation Requirements
- Quarantine in government arranged accommodation
Q & A
- Subject in focus Q & A - Similarities and Differences COVID-19 and Influenza
- COVID-19 GP Practical issues FAQ
Telehealth MBS Items
- Factsheet for Additional 10 MBS Mental Helath Sessions during COVID-19
- Extension of national COVID-19 emergency health response to 31 March 2021 for Medicare subsidised telehealth services.
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See Fact Sheet (MBS online)- includes Nurse Practitioners Fact Sheet
- WQPHN - Telehealthcare Guide 2020
- Temporary Telehealth Bulk-Billed items for COVID-19
- RACGP COVID-19 telehealth resources
- ACRRM telehealth standards
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