Events

Local health professionals are welcome to attend this event which will provide a platform for collaboration & discussion on workforce attraction, recruitment & retention for the care and support sector. The Regional Workforce Advisory Group will provide an ongoing platform to escalate identified challenges and gaps being experienced within the region with a focus on potential solutions and strategies utilising existing strengths, partnerships and opportunities to maximise regional participation to support the growth and delivery of services within the region. Date: 30 September 2021 Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm Venue: Busselton Community Resource Centre Room 1 Register your attendance here.

Thursday 14 October 2021 12:30pm-1:30pm Presenter: Sandy Duxbury, Coordinator Heart Health WA (Nutrition and Equity) Heart Foundation Telehealth Professional Education Program. For country WA Health Professionals: • Allied Health • Primary Practice Nursing • Inpatient Nursing REGISTER HERE.

Friday 22 October 2021 12.30pm-1.00pm Registration, light lunch and networking 1.00pm-3.30pm Workshop Let’s work together to improve cardiac rehabilitation services and discuss the journey towards accreditation for cardiac rehabilitation programs. Workshop discussions include: Cardiac Rehabilitation Quality Indicators, SOLVE-CHD and sharing your education tips. Where: University of WA Nedlands Campus, School of Population and Global Health Ground Floor Seminar Rooms 3 & 4 Clifton Street Building M431 Cost: ACRA-WA members free, $50 to non-members (waived if joining ACRA at this event) http://www.acra.net.au/membership/ RSVP: 17/10/20 Nikki Strahan nstrahan@iinet.net.au

DATE: Saturday 23 October 2021 WHERE: Bunbury COST: Level 1 contact workshop: $265 (meals not provided) Level 1 online content and review rich extension: $250 (4 sessions: Sat 3-5pm) COURSE PRESENTER: Denise Stewart (B. Occ Thy) In the contact workshop you will learn how to use a range of assessments that guide you in Level 1 treatment planning for individuals after mastectomy or lumpectomy. Level 1 treatments involves four (4) release methods for common adhesions in skin, muscle and tight fascial connections. These skills can be : added to a lymphoedema treatment session used in a stand alone (breast) cancer rehab...

23 - 24 October 2021 The Rural Health West CPD REACT+ workshop is designed to assist Western Australian Visiting Medical Practitioners to maintain their emergency knowledge and skills, and gain formal assessment towards their emergency credentialing, as required by WA Country Health Service. Covering medical emergencies, major trauma and cardiac arrest in adults and children, and associated lifesaving procedural skills training. REACT+ is a highly interactive workshop. Participants are provided with audiovisual pre-learning materials and the course consists almost entirely of small group practical skills stations and simulated scenarios. Eligibility:  All medical practitioners are welcome to register with priority given to...

WHEN: 25 to 29 October 2021 WHERE: Bunbury (clinic site to be advised) Fee: $165* (incl gst) for 2-4 hour sessions. Join us in an innovative community project, where improving the quality of life for individual’s after a cancer diagnosis is our goal. Oncology patients with movement impairments and skin changes such as stiffness or thickness, weakness, pain and pins/needles /tingling will be booked into assessment and treatment sessions with Denise Stewart at the BUNBURY POP-UP ONCOLOGY CLINIC. Bench marking sessions will be available throughout the clinic and will include: 1.Sitting in on patient sessions. There will be no opportunity...

Tuesday 26 October 2021 6:00pm-9:00pm Lighthouse Hotel, Bunbury Join BDITS for another great evening of learning, food and networking, featuring: Dr Patrick Cox, General and Respiratory Physician: Advances in management of Lung Malignancies Dr Steven Blefari, Child Adolescent Psychiatrist, Director Rural Training WACHS: Improving Skills in Managing Psychiatric Presentations Bookings for dinner are essential! Register here. Questions? Call Lee-Ann Gray on 0428 673 055.

Thursday 28 October 2021 5:30pm-7:30pm Quality Hotel Lighthouse, Carey Street, Bunbury South West general practitioners are invited to a women’s health update presented by obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Ben Cunningham. The topic for this presentation will be an update on menopause, and a Q&A on endometriosis and pelvis pain. Ben worked as the senior registrar at Bunbury Hospital in 2013 and 2014, obtaining his FRANZCOG in February 2015. Ben provides comprehensive care across all spectrums of gynaecology – from subfertility to menstrual disorders, and pelvic floor dysfunction to continence issues. He has a special interest in complex pregnancy care, particularly...

Date: Saturday 30 October, 2021 Time: 7.30 am to 8.15 am - registration, 8.15 am to 2.30 pm - presentations and workshops Cost: Free Venue: Fiona Stanley Hospital Education Building, 11 Robin Warren Drive, Murdoch 6150   Registration and more information: To register your interest please follow the following link https://waproject.healthpathways.org.au/Events.aspx. Registrations are essential.     Event Topics: Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Workshop: Tailoring Type 2 Diabetes Treatments Workshop: Diabetes Remission Workshop: Issues for Diabetes in Pregnancy; pre and post Diabetes Foot Disease HealthPathways and Primary Care Resources!