SWSPHN Antenatal Shared Care Program

A new registration renewal process starts in August 2024 and aims to create a more efficient, structured process for tracking and auditing CPD hours.

GPs wanting to maintain their registration as an ANSC provider must complete three hours of eligible CPD and a short, online form by 31 October each year, to retain their registration.

Eligible CPD includes CPD on various antenatal topics delivered both face-to-face and online each month by SWSPHN’s CPD team. It can also include external CPD which has been RACGP-approved (see information on right side of this page).

Key points for the new process include:

• ANSC registration renewal will take place annually, with three hours of ANSC CPD to be completed between 1 November and 31 October each year.
• GPs will be emailed a unique link to an online registration renewal form each August/September, seeking confirmation by 31 October they want to remain an ANSC provider for the following year, and declaring they have completed three hours of eligible CPD in the set timeframe, and accepting the terms of being a ANSC provider.
  The form will take approximately three minutes to complete.
• The new registration renewal process begins this year (2024), and ANSC providers will be emailed their unique link early next month (August).

How to access relevant CPD points

The three ANSC CPD hours can be recorded across different types of activities. For example, CPD hours can be recorded as a combination of educational activities and involvement on an ANSC relevant committee.

Look for SWSPHN-hosted CPD event to right hand side of this page. SWSPHN keep a record of any CPD completed through the events it hosts.

If you have acquired eligible CPD external to SWSPHN since October 2023, you are encouraged to let SWSPHN know. his could be a completion certificate or RACGP transcript.

Please email ansc@swsphn.com.au.

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)

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.

FREE CPD Event:

Meeting your Measuring Outcomes CPD hours can feel daunting and complex, but it doesn't need to be.

During this webinar RACGPSI Antenatal and Postnatal Chair, Dr Ka-Kiu Cheung, will provide ideas of practical quality improvements that you can implement into your practice.

Dr Cheung will explore examples of key criteria that you can focus on, allowing you to better support your patients during and after pregnancy.

For further information and to register please visit the RACGP Event page.

The NSW Cervical Screening Program has developed a new resource in collaboration with the Cervical Screening During Pregnancy Project Working Group. The purpose is to provide up-to-date cervical screening information to all healthcare providers who work with women during pregnancy care.

The full presentation can be found here.

For National Cervical Screening Program resources visit here.

For Family Planning Australia training courses, including provision of clinician-collected and self-collected samples visit here.