Category: sustainable

An overview of the safety, clinical application and antiviral research of a novel repurposed therapeutic for the Omicron (B.1.1.529) COVID-19 variant

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in #coronavirus, #covid19, Comprehensive, Empowering, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, health, Influence, Information, News, PartridgeGP, Professional, recruitment, sustainable

Since a novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in late December 2019, coronavirus disease -19 (COVID-19) epidemic has gradually spread worldwide, becoming a major public health event. In November 2021, the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant was seen in various undervaccinated countries. No specific antiviral therapeutics are currently available for COVID-19 caused by this variant. The treatments for COVID-19 were mainly based on the experiences of similar virus such SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, HIV and influenza viruses. Scientists have taken great efforts to investigate the effective methods for the treatment of COVID-19. In this article, we review a novel option for COVID-19 therapy with the repurposing of Macrogol 3350. We systematically reviewed clinical safety, clinical applications and the progress of antiviral research into this therapeutic. This is summarized and compared, hoping to provide a new clinical option for COVID-19 treatment due to the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant and inform thought for life-threatening future variants.

Hello! Did you read this far? Many won’t. Many didn’t. This article is a total fiction and yet it has spread far and wide. Why write it? Why post it?

Your GP is a great source of information about this and other health related topics. Don’t be scared. Don’t stress. Outsource your medical reading and worries about new variants, existing variants, vaccines, and restrictions to your trusted GP. We are here to help! Here’s some actual medical info on a potential new vaccine!

PartridgeGP is here to help and serve our valued patients and community. PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of fear and a global pandemic with actual vaccines and therapeutics here now. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.

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For everyone, we believe that having a usual GP or General Practice is central to each person’s care and recommend that people with any health issues that come to the attention of other health professionals should be advised to attend their usual GP or General Practice rather than a specialised service (ie a place not providing the holistic care a specialist GP would).   If  they say that they don’t have a usual GP or general practice, they should be helped to find one and to actually attend it. Call PartridgeGP on 82953200 or make an appointment online here.

(Hat tip: Dr Oliver Frank)

(TL;DR – Get a regular GP or General Practice and use them!)

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If you’re employed, get a side hustle and get into business. If you’ve already got a business, get a network. Want to get started? Find your tribe here!

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If you are a great GP, nurse, or other great Allied Health Professional, and you want to serve your clients or patients to the best of your ability, without worrying about all the non clinical things that get in your way, lets talk. Call Dr Nick Tellis or Mrs Alison Mibus on 8295 3200 and have a coffee and chat with us as to how PartridgeGP can help you to help others.

PartridgeGP is seeking wonderful Medical Receptionists

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in Comprehensive, Empowering, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, health, Information, News, PartridgeGP, Professional, recruitment, sustainable

Medical Receptionist – Casual

PartridgeGP

Adelaide

Healthcare & MedicalMedical Administration

Casual, potential for FT/PT





PartridgeGP is growing and we have an opportunity for a Casual Medical Receptionist to join our practice team.



The hours will vary so flexibility and availability to cover leave and shifts with minimal notice is a pre-requisite. Regular Saturday afternoon shifts or the ability to cover these on a rotating basis will be required.



You will contribute to the smooth and efficient day to day running of PartridgeGP:



Answering phones and presenting a cheerful face for PartridgeGP as part of the front of house team

Document scanning, supporting our GPs with administration and follow up, and general office duties

There will be times that you will work on your own so being a self starter will be important.



The successful applicant will be working in a fast paced busy practice and must have an excellent phone manner, communication skills and be capable of triaging, making appointments over the phone, and managing our online appointments.



We are looking for character and spirit and will have some amazing training for successful applicants. A willingness to learn, curiosity, and comfort with technology and computers are also key attributes.





We are seeking a friendly, adaptable and resilient person with a team spirit who pays attention to detail. You will be part of a supportive practice team who focus on upholding our Practice Ethos of professional, comprehensive and empowering healthcare.



PartridgeGP is a fully computerised and AGPAL accredited practice.



Short-listing for this position will commence immediately, however, we reserve the right to close this position earlier than stated. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.



Please submit your current Resume and Cover letter for consideration to our Practice Manager Mrs Alison Mibus by emailing pm@partridgegp.com.au

All of our doctors here at PartridgeGP are fully qualified ‘Fellows’ (or are studying towards this ‘Registrars’) holding a specialist qualification with either the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) or the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (FACRRM) or both (3-4 years of full time study and 3 exams on top of an undergraduate university medical degree and supervised trainee ‘intern’ year in a hospital). This is our minimum specialist standard and you can see more about what this involves here. Our Fellows provide supervision and advice to our Registrars.

Founded in 2013, PartridgeGP (formerly Partridge Street General Practice) is a General Practice, based in Glenelg, South Australia, providing better services and facilities to GPs, Allied Health Professionals, and our staff, so that we can all provide the best clinical care to our valued patients. We are fully accredited as a General Practice and we are an award winning training practice, training students and GP Registrars, the future of our profession. Our core purpose is to help practitioners help patients. 

PartridgeGP is here to help – and we will continue to serve our valued patients! PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.

Where to from here?

Please submit your current Resume and Cover letter for consideration to our Practice Manager Mrs Alison Mibus by emailing pm@partridgegp.com.au

Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com

For everyone, we believe that having a usual GP or General Practice is central to each person’s care and recommend that people with any health issues that come to the attention of other health professionals should be advised to attend their usual GP or General Practice rather than a specialised service (ie a place not providing the holistic care a specialist GP would).   If  they say that they don’t have a usual GP or general practice, they should be helped to find one and to actually attend it. Call PartridgeGP on 82953200 or make an appointment online here.

(Hat tip: Dr Oliver Frank)

(TL;DR – Get a regular GP or General Practice and use them!)

Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com

If you’re employed, get a side hustle and get into business. If you’ve already got a business, get a network. Want to get started? Find your tribe here!

Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com

If you are a great GP or a great Allied Health Professional, and you want to serve your clients or patients to the best of your ability, without worrying about all the non clinical things that get in your way, lets talk. Call Dr Nick Tellis on 8295 3200 and have a coffee and chat with us as to how PartridgeGP can help you to help others.

Divided, the Empire must unite…

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in #justagp, Aged care, Comprehensive, Empowering, future, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, health, How to, Influence, Information, Medical, News, PartridgeGP, Professional, sustainable

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is
one of China’s four Great Classical Novels. The title of this blog post is more fully:

The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.

PartridgeGP is based on a triple promise that we will be great for our patients and our community, GPs and our staff, and for the owners and the practice. Further, we will provide a comprehensive, professional, empowering, and sustainable service at all times.

Our friendly neighbourhood pharmacist sent this to me (see below). He was a little worried about the threat to his full service pharmacy and also to great General Practice.

Hmmmm

Now different companies will have different service offerings at different levels of the market. Think Porsche and Hyundai. Both very acceptable to different groups. Maybe even acceptable to the same group at different times. I’m not sure they are competitors.

I put my thoughts down here:

Upon reflection…

So keep playing to your strengths, keep doing your best, and unite not divide.

If you want to join a team that’s here to guide and help our valued patients, give Dr Nick Tellis or Dr Nick Mouktaroudis a call at PartridgeGP on 8295 3200!

Electronic Prescribing at PartridgeGP

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in #coronavirus, #covid19, #justagp, Comprehensive, Ehealth, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, How to, Information, News, PartridgeGP, Professional, sustainable, technology, Virus
You bet!

Those bits of paper your GP gives you to get medications from your Pharmacist are changing. Scripts are now DIGITAL!

GPs can now send prescriptions to pharmacists electronically as an interim solution during the pandemic. 

As part of the COVID-19 National Health Plan telehealth model, the new interim measure allows GPs to send prescriptions electronically to pharmacists without having to mail out a physical copy of the original paper prescription with a GP’s wet-ink signature.

Patients can then have their script filled and medication delivered to their door, helping to minimise the risk of virus transmission in accordance with social-distancing measures.

‘It’s certainly going to make it easier for practices, because they are being inundated with pharmacists asking them to post prescriptions to them,’
 
‘I know at my practices it’s causing substantial concern.
 
‘We’re getting calls every day from pharmacists saying, “I can’t dispense unless you send me the hardcopy paper”, and we’re saying, “We don’t have the resources to keep running out and buying stamps, and it’s just not safe to put staff in that position”.
 
‘So we’ve had a bit of a stalemate for the last few weeks and this is a great outcome in the short term.’

Dr Nathan Pinksier – GP

As outlined in guidelines issued by the Department of Health (DoH), GPs will be required to do as follows:

  1. Create a paper prescription during a telehealth consultation. This will need to be signed as normal or using a valid digital signature
  2. Create a clear copy of the entire prescription (a digital image such as a photo or PDF including the barcode where applicable)
  3. Send via email, fax or text message directly to the patient’s pharmacy of choice

Schedule 8 and 4(D) medicines such as opioids and fentanyl are not part of the interim arrangement.

While not legally required, the DoH encourages practices that are able to continue sending the original script to pharmacies to do so as soon as possible. All other practices must retain the paper prescription for a period of up to two years for audit and compliance purposes.

Yes!

This is a great step forwards!

Electronic Prescriptions

Changes have been made to Commonwealth legislation to recognise an electronic prescription as a legal form to allow medicine supply. This provides prescribers and patients with an alternative to paper prescriptions. Paper prescriptions will still be available.

Electronic prescribing will not fundamentally change existing prescribing and dispensing processes. It provides patients with greater choice and patients can still choose which pharmacy they attend to fill their prescription.

Under the Australian Government’s National Health Plan for COVID-19, electronic prescriptions are now being fast-tracked to support telehealth and allow patients to receive vital healthcare services while maintaining physical distancing and, where necessary, isolation.

A significant amount of work has already been done to ensure that necessary upgrades to both pharmacy and prescriber software can be done quickly and electronic prescriptions are expected to be available from the end of May.

Electronic prescriptions are an alternative to paper prescriptions which will allow people convenient access to their medicines and will lessen the risk of infection being spread in general practice waiting rooms and at community pharmacies.

Quick links

Information for prescribers 

Information for dispensers

Tokens

The solution being fast-tracked will see a unique QR barcode known as a “token” sent via an app (if you have one), SMS or email. The token will be sent to you from your doctor, which is then presented or sent to a pharmacy, to supply your medication.

The token will be scanned by your pharmacist as a key to unlock the electronic prescription from an encrypted and secure electronic prescription delivery service.

If you have any repeats of a prescription, a new token will be sent to you when the prescription is dispensed. You will need to keep the token to send to your pharmacy when you need to get the repeat filled.

Active Script List

By the end of this year, more functionality will be available and in addition to the token, there will also be an option for your pharmacy to have a list of your active prescriptions in their software, so you don’t have to forward it on.

To get your medicines you will need to prove your identity to the pharmacist and provide consent for the pharmacist to view your prescriptions.

Steps to take in preparation for using an electronic prescription

  • Ensure your address, email address and mobile number are up to date with your doctor and pharmacy.
  • Check that your pharmacy can take an electronic prescription and are delivering medicines.

Your GP at PartridgeGP

Your Pharmacist at Bayside Village Pharmacy

Coronavirus Help Desk – Partridge GP (update with Repat drive through clinic info)

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in #coronavirus, #justagp, Aged care, Empowering, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, health, How to, Influence, Information, News, PartridgeGP, prevention, Professional, Self help, sustainable, Training, Virus

We find ourselves at the start of a seeming pandemic.

 

Coronavirus – latest government info – CLICK HERE

 

If unwell with cough/cold symptoms, stay home and use the phone

 

CALL coronavirus hotline 1800 020 080

free advice, home testing after doctor advice

CALL healthdirect 1800 022 222

free advice

 

If further advice needed

 

CALL PartridgeGP 0882953200

phone consult, private fee, no Medicare rebate

CALL/ATTEND

nRAH

Flinders Medical Centre

Lyell McEwin Hospital

coronavirus clinics

free, can see and/or swab

 

updated re the Repat drive through clinic

 

Accessing the Repat Collection Centre:

Patients must be booked into this service to ensure a controlled flow

Bookings are to be made by the practice by ringing 8222 3000

The practice is to advise patient of date and time of booking

Fax the request form to SA Pathology on 7117 5085

The service is available between 8.00 am and 4.30 pm Monday to Friday

Access is via Gate 4, 216 Daws Road, then follow the signs

Please ask patients to remain in their car and the SA Pathology staff will come to them

Instruct the patient to remain in isolation until the results have been communicated to them by you (their GP)

 

The Royal Adelaide Hospital

7 days a week 0900-2000 – walk in, just follow the signs!

Royal Adelaide Clinic Location HERE

NEW Southern Suburbs Coronavirus Priority Care Clinic

 453 Morphett Rd, Oaklands Park 7 days a week, walk in 1000-2000

 

How Do I Self-Isolate- click HERE!

AND HERE

OR HERE!

 

 

 

coronaadvice

 

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Drive through COVID in Victoria!

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in #coronavirus, #justagp, Aged care, Empowering, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, health, How to, Influence, Information, News, PartridgeGP, prevention, Professional, Self help, sustainable, Training, Virus

Oh…you thought I meant testing!

I meant THIS

 

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In other news

We find ourselves at the start of a seeming pandemic.

Coronavirus.

In addition to the medical risks to themselves, their friends and families, and their patients, GPs have to consider the risks to their livelihood and practices.

We can’t help our patients if we are ill.

We can’t help our patients if our practices are closed.

We can’t help our patients if we are isolated at home.

There may be solutions. One, from Dr Todd Cameron and Dr Sachin B Patel, is outlined in the following videos.

 

1. GPs to instigate protocols in the way they see patients

2. GPs to alter the things they need to see patients face to face for

3. GP Practices to support the GPs who pay them to do so

4. Use telehealth and have MBS item numbers 23/36 cover this in this time of need

The videos are here

 

And here

 

So what can you do as a GP to make these things happen?

Stephen Covey talks about a circle of influence and a circle of concern. Your circle of influence should be larger than your circle of concern or you just worry about things you can’t change. Let’s go further and consider a circle of impact.

Where can you apply your time and skills to make a change?

Here it is.

Join the AMA.

They have about 6000 GP members (my guesstimate). You can join for a monthly fee of somewhere between $15-130 a month as a GP or registrar. You don’t have to join the AMA – it is entirely voluntary. You can leave at any time, and take your money with you.

So join.

On your application, quite clearly state why you are joining and that this is THE thing you would like the AMA to make an impact on. The AMA have access to the politicians. From your membership to their ears.

Watch the videos.

Make your decision.

Join.

Take action.

Make a difference.

Good luck!

 

 

Coronavirus Help Desk – Partridge GP

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in #coronavirus, #justagp, Aged care, Empowering, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, health, How to, Influence, Information, News, PartridgeGP, prevention, Professional, Self help, sustainable, Training, Virus

We find ourselves at the start of a seeming pandemic.

Coronavirus – latest government info – CLICK HERE

 

If unwell with cough/cold symptoms, stay home and use the phone

 

CALL coronavirus hotline 1800 020 080

free advice, home testing after doctor advice

CALL healthdirect 1800 022 222

free advice

 

If further advice needed

 

CALL PartridgeGP 0882953200

phone consult, private fee, no Medicare rebate

CALL/ATTEND

nRAH

Flinders Medical Centre

Lyell McEwin Hospital

coronavirus clinics

free, can see and/or swab

The Royal Adelaide Hospital

7 days a week 0900-2000 – walk in, just follow the signs!

Royal Adelaide Clinic Location HERE

NEW Southern Suburbs Coronavirus Priority Care Clinic

 453 Morphett Rd, Oaklands Park 7 days a week, walk in 1000-2000

 

How Do I Self-Isolate- click HERE!

AND HERE

OR HERE!

 

 

coronaadvice

 

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GPs. Protect yourself. Join the AMA. Good reading for politicians!

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in #coronavirus, #justagp, Aged care, Empowering, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, GPsCAN, health, How to, Influence, Information, News, PartridgeGP, prevention, Professional, Self help, sustainable, Training, Virus

We find ourselves at the start of a pandemic.

Coronavirus.

In addition to the medical risks to themselves, their friends and families, and their patients, GPs have to consider the risks to their livelihood and practices.

We can’t help our patients if we are ill.

We can’t help our patients if our practices are closed.

We can’t help our patients if we are isolated at home.

There may be solutions. One, from Dr Todd Cameron and Dr Sachin B Patel, is outlined in the following videos.

1. GPs to instigate protocols in the way they see patients – pivot to PHONE

2. GPs to alter the things they need to see patients face to face for – PHONE!

3. GP Practices to support the GPs who pay them to do so – BE SAFE!

4. Use telehealth and have MBS item numbers 23/36 cover this in this time of need

The videos are here

And here

So what can you do as a GP to make these things happen?

Stephen Covey talks about a circle of influence and a circle of concern. Your circle of influence should be larger than your circle of concern or you just worry about things you can’t change. Let’s go further and consider a circle of impact.

Where can you apply your time and skills to make a change?

Here it is.

Join the AMA.

They have about 6000 GP members (my guesstimate). You can join for a monthly fee of somewhere between $15-130 a month as a GP or registrar. You don’t have to join the AMA – it is entirely voluntary. You can leave at any time, and take your money with you.

So join.

On your application, quite clearly state why you are joining and that this is THE thing you would like the AMA to make an impact on. The AMA have access to the politicians. From your membership to their ears.

Watch the videos.

Make your decision.

Join.

Take action.

Make a difference.

Good luck!

Aged care royal commission continues in Canberra with focus on health care services, GP-patient relationships

by Dr Nick Tellis, posted in Aged care, Comprehensive, Empowering, General Practice, Glenelg, GP, PartridgeGP, Professional, sustainable

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-09/aged-care-royal-commission-continues-in-canberra/11777870

PartridgeGP and Dr Nick Tellis are proud to serve our older Australians in Residential Aged Care Facilities. It’s something we will do more of in 2020 – and we will do better 👍🏼

See our thoughts here:

Some ideas for improvement 🤔

Some more ideas for improvement 🤔

Book yourself or your relatives in an RACF in for an appointment by calling 82953200

And access our new patients in RACF forms right here