SWSPHN Antenatal Shared Care Program

Registration link: Sydney Dinner Event (natera.com). Registrations close on 6th August.

GPs are also welcome!

Visit or join Wendy and Bec to talk about GPSC, have a look at the hospital, and listen to the interesting talks planned.

The Emerging Minds series is a quartet of pre-recorded webinars brought free to RACGP members.

The series shares with GPs strategies for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

For more details on each webinar episode, follow the links below:

• Replanting the Birthing Trees: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families during pregnancy and birth
• Replanting the Birthing Trees: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families during the child’s first year
• Our Woven Ways: Uncovering the worries of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents
• Our Woven Ways: Supporting goal setting with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents (to be recorded July 25)

Needing some CPD to meet your annual requirements for RACGP and as an ANSC Provider?

The Women's & Children's Health Update is on the 10th of August at the International Convention Centre Sydney.

Click the LINK to register.

Register or enquire here for the August Open Days:

Campbelltown - 17 August, 2024 from 10.30am-1.30pm

Fairfield - 31 August, 2024 from 10.30am-1.30pm

A new Australian Government funded national cervical screening campaign is commencing in September and is likely to increase patient demand for the HPV self-collection option.

In advance of this patient-facing campaign, the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care has funded the Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer to undertake a nationwide healthcare provider awareness campaign, ‘HPV Self-Collection: Are YOU ready to support the choice?’. The campaign aims to encourage healthcare providers to ensure their practices are ready to offer the HPV self-collection option to all who are eligible in advance of the patient-facing campaign.

HPV self-collection allows screening participants to take their own vaginal sample for HPV testing. Self-collection is one of the best tools we have available to increase cervical screening participation, address disparities in screening, and keep us on track to eliminate cervical cancer in Australia by 2035.

Find resources CPD online learning modules, videos, and information on how to support under-screened groups at www.acpcc.org.au/self-collection-campaign.

You can:

• Sign up for a webinar about self-collection - There are two upcoming live webinars on 11 June and 19 June, allowing 1 CPD hour
• Complete CPD accredited online learning modules.
• Download provider clinical resources, as well as patient resources, including a factsheet on Cervical Screening During Pregnancy
• Contact your laboratory to ensure you have the correct swabs and instructions to offer self-collection.
• Remember that self-collection is just as sensitive for the detection of HPV and CIN2+/adenocarcinoma in situ as a clinician-collected cervical sample and can be offered to all (asymptomatic) cervical screening patients.
• Understand barriers for under-screened groups and how provider cultural competence and the option of self-collection can overcome them.
• Ensure you feel confident supporting patients to choose what’s right for them

To find out more, contact:

• NSW Cervical Screening Program at CINSW-CervicalScreening@health.nsw.gov.au
• ACPCC education team at education@acpcc.org.au

Please see the NSW Health Safety Notice regarding Measles.

Please be mindful of measles amongst pregnant women, or women planning conception. Risks for the pregnant population are increased for miscarriage, preterm birth and low-birth weight.

More details for measles identification, management/treatment can be found in the Measles HealthPathway.

Additional information for women who may have been exposed or have contracted measles whilst pregnant can found through Pregnancy, Birth and Baby.

Women can scan the below QR code to access the resource if required:

Link to the Safety Notice document online.