Murray PHN

IAR-DST National Training | Online
2025-07-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-07-04 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Webinar
The National Initial Assessment and Referral (IAR) Guidance and Decision Support Tool (DST) has been developed by the Australian Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.
GPs and allied health professionals can attend this training to learn the principles underpinning the national approach to stepped care, and how to use of IAR Guidance in practice settings to generate a recommended level of care.
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Accreditation:
RACGP: 1 Educational Activity hour, 1 Reviewing Performance hour.
ACCRM: 1 Educational Activity hour, 1 Reviewing Performance hour.

Comorbidity guidelines: Supporting client change with motivational interviewing | Online
2025-07-04 11:00 - 12:00
Hosted by: The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use – University of Sydney
This webinar will give an overview of motivational interviewing in the context of substance use and is part of the University of Sydney’s Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use Comorbidity Project webinar series, which is focused on applying evidence into practice.
Presented by Dr Robert Fullerton, a senior clinical psychologist at Sentient Professional Wellbeing and clinical psychologist at Bondi Doctors. He holds a dual PhD in Clinical and Industrial-Organisational Psychology and has 16 years of experience applying Motivational Interviewing in government-funded, university counselling, and private practice treatment settings.
By the end of this webinar, attendees will gain:
– An understanding of Transtheoretical Model of Change
– An awareness of what Motivational Interviewing is and when it is useful
– Knowledge of the spirit and principles of Motivational Interviewing
– An understanding of the core communication skills of Motivational Interviewing that lead to behaviour change
Target audience: AOD practitioners
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Building resilience and wellbeing – thriving through the pressures of healthcare | Online
2025-06-26 10:00 - 12:00
Hosted by Studer Group
Are you finding it difficult to prioritise your own wellbeing while supporting your team? Are you creating a workplace culture where your team feels supported, heard and empowered?
As a healthcare leader, your wellbeing and resilience play a crucial role in shaping your team’s culture and performance. This interactive workshop will explore practical strategies for managing stress, preventing burnout, and fostering a culture of psychological safety and wellbeing.
This practical, virtual workshop is designed to support you as a leader to:
• Recognise the unique challenges healthcare leaders face and how they impact resilience
• Identify early signs of stress and burnout
• Explore strategies to balance leadership responsibilities while prioritising personal wellbeing
• Set and maintain healthy boundaries to protect personal time while remaining available
• Build skills to support your team member in developing resilience and managing stress effectively
Target audience: Health professionals
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Mindframe Plus training | Online
2025-06-26 09:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
Mindframe is a national program that supports safe and non-stigmatising communication about suicide, mental health concerns and alcohol and other drugs.
This workshop is for individuals and organisations who have a role to play in suicide intervention and prevention and will cover the Mindframe guidelines, relationship building, reducing risk, media strategies and communications.
Workshop aims:

Ensuring strong application of Mindframe guidelines
Supporting local organisations and sectors to build collaborative relationships
Supporting local organisations and sectors that work with the media
Reducing risk of inappropriate reporting and communication
Empowering local stakeholders to make informed decisions with suicide prevention messages
Assisting in coordination of media strategies and communications

Click here to learn more and register.

Advanced care planning and My Health Record | Online
2025-06-24 14:30 - 15:30
Hosted by the Victorian-Tasmanian PHN Alliance
Attendees will gain insights from guest speakers into how advanced care planning supports quality end-of-life care and how My Health Record can be effectively used to document and access this information.
Learning objectives

Describe the importance of advance care planning and how this plays an important role in promoting quality care at the end-of-life.
Describe the importance of how to develop effective communication skills to engage in meaningful conversations with residents and their families about advance care planning.
Understand the advance care planning documentation and how to document advance care planning conversations in My Health Record.
Gain a better understanding of My Health Record and how it can help in Residential Aged Care Homes in delivering quality patient care.

Target audience: Residential aged care home staff
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Fertility education | Bendigo
2025-06-19 18:30 - 19:00 | MacKenzie Quarters, 10 - 12 Mackenzie Street, Bendigo, Victoria, 3550, Australia
Hosted by Monash IVF
This is set to be a wonderful educational and networking evening with Dr Anju Agrwal presenting on “AMH and Egg Freezing”, Dr Emma Clifton presenting on “Fertility workups and Genetic Carrier Screening” and Dr Cameron Sharp exploring “Male Factor Infertility”.
This interactive session is tailored to doctors seeking to enhance their knowledge in reproductive health.
– Gain valuable insights from Monash IVF Fertility Specialists
– Participate in an open Q&A session with Dr Anju Agrwal, Dr Emma Clifton, and Dr Cameron Sharp
– Network with peers in a relaxed dinner setting
With increased awareness of male factor infertility and tests like AMH and genetic carrier screening, comes a growing number of questions for General Practitioners. At Monash IVF, we are excited to invite you to our next fertility education dinner in Bendigo where together we can explore these topics.
Target audience: GPs
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ADHD - a practical approach | Albury
2025-06-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Atura Hotel, 648 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, 2640, Australia
GPs and GP registrars are invited to this event to hear from a local Paediatrician on the assessment and management of ADHD in general practice.
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Statewide Victorian PHN Immunisation Forum 2025 | Online
2025-06-18 18:30 - 19:45 | Webinar
Nurse practitioners, nurses, general practitioners, pharmacists, practice managers and other health professionals are invited to this online event to hear from speakers from Immunisation Program at the Victorian Department of Health.
Topics:

National Immunisation Program and catch-up vaccination
Adolescent vaccination
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Mother and Infant Protection Program (RSV-MIPP)
Mpox, Japanese encephalitis virus
Measles state-funded immunisation program and public health response
Vaccine cold chain management – Identifying and reporting a cold chain breach.

This event is conducted by the Victorian PHNs – Eastern Melbourne, Gippsland, Murray, North Western Melbourne, South Eastern Melbourne and Western Victoria.
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Applied suicide intervention skills training (ASIST) | Wodonga
2025-06-18 09:00 - 2025-06-19 17:00 | Hyphen Library, 126 Hovel Street, Wodonga, VIC, 3690, Australia
ASIST is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid. It teaches participants to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. ASIST is accredited by Suicide Prevention Australia and is widely used by healthcare providers. Suitable for all clinical and non-clinical staff.
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GP/GP registrar initial assessment and referral training | Online
2025-06-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Webinar
The Initial Assessment and Referral – Decision Support Tool (IAR-DST) is an initiative of the Department of Health and Aged Care. It supports clinicians in matching a person’s treatment needs with the right intensity of mental health support, at the right time.
This workshop is for GP/GP registrars to learn how to use the IAR decision support tool to help people seeking mental health support.
A $300 payment is available for eligible GPs who complete the two-hour training. This training is an approved CPD activity for RACGP/ ACRRM members.
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Enhancing early detection: The latest in cancer screening | Online
2025-06-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Webinar
The Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria and the Victoria and Tasmania PHN Alliance are hosting this RACGP and ACRRM accredited webinar for GPs and practice staff to provide updates on cancer screening programs.
Topics:

Breast density updates
Cancer screening for the LGBTQ+ community
Culturally safe cancer screening for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Click here to download a flyer.
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Introduction to Aboriginal Cultural Safety | Online
2025-06-17 10:00 - 15:00 | Webinar
This training is suitable general practice and mental health services staff and other primary healthcare professionals working in the Murray PHN catchment.
Facilitated by the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO), the training will offer foundational knowledge and awareness on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, identities and cultures while exploring the basics of cultural safety and simple ways to put it into practice.
VACCHO’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander facilitators enhance participant experience and learning by sharing cultural knowledge and lived experience in a safe learning environment where questions are encouraged and welcome.
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Click here for a flyer.

Introduction to CDM Day 1 & Advanced CDM Day 2, 17 & 18 JUNE 2025 | Shepparton
2025-06-17 09:00 - 2025-06-18 16:00 | Quest Shepparton, 177-183 Welsford St, Shepparton, VIC, 3630, Australia
Delivered by CDM Plus
Day 1: CDM Plus provides a comprehensive Introduction to Chronic Disease Management for Clinical staff. Topics:

Medicare, using MBS online, keeping up to date with changes, CDM Item numbers and MBS Billing Combinations
Care Plans and Reviews
Health Assessments and Allied Health Pathways
Home Medicines Review (HMR)
Case Studies
Hard Copy Training Materials Included

Day 2: Topics:

Prevention, Detection, and Management of chronic conditions such as Asthma/COPD, Diabetes, Cancer, Osteoporosis, Cardiovascular Disease, and Chronic Kidney Disease
MBS Item numbers for common detection and management activities
Complex Care and MBS Billing Pathways
Data and Reporting, Quality Improvement and Digital Health
Case Conferences
Case Studies
Hard Copy Training Materials Included

Audience: Nurse, GPs and other health professionals
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Marc Ryan, The Beautiful Bogan - A Story of Hope | Mildura
2025-06-15 18:00 - 20:00 | The Setts Mildura, 110-114 Eighth Street, Mildura, Victoria, 3500, Australia
Come along to a one-of-a-kind comedy show, as Marc Ryan, known as the Beautiful Bogan, shares his experiences of post-traumatic stress disorder and living with thoughts of suicide to help normalise conversations about mental health. There will be lots of jokes, laughter, stories and above all, hope shared.
This event is for audiences MA15+ (parental guidance recommend).
Content Advisory. This performance contains strong language and discusses living with thoughts of suicide.
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GP and practice nurse Mental Health Skills Training | Mildura
2025-06-14 09:00 - 17:00 | TBC
Hosted by Silverline Healthcare
This one-day, face to face course is accredited with the RACGP GPMHSC and RACGP CPD Programs, plus ACRRM. Completion is a fast-track way to accessing better remunerated MBS Item numbers for GP Mental Health Care Plans (MBS 2715, 2717).
Presenter: Brett McKinnon: Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Target audience: GPs, registrars, nurse practitioners, practice nurses
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Marc Ryan, The Beautiful Bogan - A Story of Hope | Swan Hill
2025-06-13 18:00 - 20:00 | One28 Doors, 128 Curlewis Street, Swan Hill, Victoria, 3585, Australia

9th Annual Immunisation Forum 2025 | Adelaide and online
2025-06-13 08:30 - 16:00
Hosted by the Immunisation Coalition
The 9th Annual Immunisation Forum (AIF) hybrid event will take a place at the Adelaide Convention Centre in Adelaide on June 13, 2025, immediately following the PHAA’s Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference (CDIC).
The program covers the following topics: a look into aged care, new vaccines for the elderly, adjuvanted vaccines, vaccinations in primary care and pharmacy, managing vaccine hesitancy, targeting at-risk populations and addressing the vaccine gap of first nations peoples.
Target audience: GPs, practice nurses, specialists, pharmacists and other immunisation specialists.
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Changes to Chronic Disease Management MBS Items | Online
2025-06-12 13:00 - 14:00
Hosted by CDM Plus
Topics:

Key changes in Chronic Disease Management
How these updates will impact your processes in primary care
Practical tips to integrate these changes smoothly into your practice.

Audience: Primary healthcare professionals
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General Practice Network Meeting | North East
2025-06-12 11:30 - 14:00 | The Cube Wodonga, 118 Hovell Street, Wodonga, Victoria, 3660, Australia
General practice staff are invited to this networking event to hear from guest speaker, Wendy O’Meara. Topics include Better Access Changes, Triple Bulk Billing incentive, benefits of building an allied health team in your practice and types of engagement, using AI in nurse-led clinics and the national lung cancer screening program.
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Mindframe Plus training | Online FULLY BOOKED
2025-06-12 09:00 - 12:00 | Webinar
Mindframe is a national program that supports safe and non-stigmatising communication about suicide, mental health concerns and alcohol and other drugs.
This workshop is for individuals and organisations who have a role to play in suicide intervention and prevention and will cover the Mindframe guidelines, relationship building, reducing risk, media strategies and communications.
Workshop aims:

Ensuring strong application of Mindframe guidelines
Supporting local organisations and sectors to build collaborative relationships
Supporting local organisations and sectors that work with the media
Reducing risk of inappropriate reporting and communication
Empowering local stakeholders to make informed decisions with suicide prevention messages
Assisting in coordination of media strategies and communications

This session is fully booked. There is a second session being held on 26 June – click here for more information.

My Health Record in Aged Care | Online
2025-06-11 14:30 - 15:30 | Webinar
This webinar will support clinicians and staff who work in and provide services to Residential Aged Care Home (RACH) who haven’t yet registered for the My Health Record system or are about to start the registration process. It will discuss the benefits, core features, registration steps, resources and support.
Click here to learn more and register.

Initial assessment and referral for mental healthcare training | Online
2025-06-11 10:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
The Initial Assessment and Referral – Decision Support Tool (IAR-DST) is an initiative of the Department of Health and Aged Care. It supports clinicians in matching a person’s treatment needs with the right intensity of mental health support, at the right time.
General practitioners, registrars, mental health clinicians and other health professionals within the Murray PHN catchment, are invited to attend this two-hour CPD-accredited group training workshop on how to use the IAR-DST.
Click here to register

Prostate cancer testing: new recommendations into practice | Online
2025-06-10 19:30 - 20:30
Hosted by the Australian Prostate Centre and the limbic
Australia’s national clinical guidelines for the early detection of prostate cancer is due for publication this year. Join experts Dr Jane Crowe and Mr Phil Dundee as they discuss the key recommendations across different risk groups, taking a case-based approach to support implementation in your practice. This webinar has been developed in collaboration with the limbic.
Learning outcomes
1. Summarise the key recommendations for PSA testing in the draft 2025 Australian clinical guidelines.
2. Outline the advances in diagnosis, treatment and surveillance that have redefined prostate cancer risk in different groups.
3. Describe how your approach to PSA testing will be reviewed or modified as a result of the new recommendations.
Target audience: GPs
RACGP
1 CPD Educational Activity hour.
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Scratching beneath the surface: Assessing and managing urticaria in general practice | Online
2025-06-10 19:00 - 20:30
The National Allergy Council in collaboration with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is hosting a webinar on Urticaria presented by Dr Alan Baker. This webinar is offered as part of allergy assist, a free national service that provides rural doctors with advice within 48 hours from clinical immunology/allergy specialists, as well as allergy education opportunities.
Topics covered:
1. Types of urticaria: acute, physical, and chronic
2. Common causes of urticaria
3. Investigation and treatment of urticaria
Learning outcomes:
1. Understand the different types and potential causes of urticaria
2. Describe the most important considerations in the assessment and investigation of urticaria
3. Apply a step-wise approach to treatment and what to consider/initiate prior to seeking specialist input.
Target audience: GPs
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Motivational Interviewing Training | Shepparton
2025-06-06 09:00 - 16:00 | Quality Hotel Parklake, 481 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, VIC, 3630, Australia
Aboriginal health practitioners, allied health professionals, nurses and other primary healthcare professionals working in the Murray PHN catchment who would like to offer extended client support or brief interventions, and increase their skills, knowledge and confidence in their motivational interviewing approach can attend this training.
Learning outcomes:

Describe the key skills and principles of motivational interviewing and its benefits
Evaluate the client’s readiness, willingness and motivation to change
Use effective communication and practical strategies to encourage conversation with a client
Identify the client’s discrepancy between current and preferred behaviour through the decisional balance tool
Prepare a plan with realistic goals with clients to help facilitate and motivate them towards change.

Presenter:

Stavroula Zandes, Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants.

Stav has a background in psychology and counselling and worked with Quit Victoria and the Cancer Council Victoria for 20 years in a range of roles. From 2005-2012, she was responsible for Quit’s statewide smoking cessation intervention training programs for health, community, workplace and education professionals. Stav is currently lecturing and tutoring at Monash University in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. In 2013, she founded Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants, a training and education business focusing on health and wellbeing, and specialising in behaviour change and communication skills such as motivational interviewing.
Click here to register.
Check in from 8.45am.
Enquiries to education@murrayphn.org.au

Suturing & wound closure techniques | Mildura
2025-06-06 | Mildura Golf Resort, 287 Twelfth Street, Mildura, Victoria, 3500, Australia
Hosted by Health Education Collaborative.
This course provides the theoretical and practical essentials to close and manage noncomplex traumatic laceration, biopsies and surgical excisions. It is ideally suited to nurses, medical students and doctors that have little or no suturing experience or wish to advance their current basic skill of only using single interrupted suturing technique.
Course structure:
Comprehensive online learning package including video demonstrations of each technique and a one-day practical skills training workshop.
Skills workshop techniques include:

Single interrupted suture
Horizontal and vertical mattress sutures
Subcuticular closure
Deep sutures
Skin flap closure
Staples & tissue adhesives

HEC are offering a 10% discount on all course registrations prior to 31 Jan 2025, use coupon code 10%.
The course accredits 20 CPD hours of learning and is ACRRM accredited.
Audience: Healthcare professionals
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Module S9: Debriefing in Simulation Workshop and Immersive Practice | Mildura
2025-06-06 | Mildura Golf Resort, 287 Twelfth Street, Mildura, Victoria, 3500, Australia
Hosted by Health Education Collaborative
Module S9: Debriefing in simulation
Enhance your impact as a simulation educator by refining your debriefing practices in this dynamic module. Building on insights from the NHET-Sim Module C2: Being a Simulation Educator, this course dives deeper into the factors that foster effective debriefing. But effective debriefing isn’t just about techniques, it’s about aligning your approach with your core values as an educator. This module is more than a training session – it’s an opportunity to explore, connect, and grow alongside a community of passionate educators.
Discover new strategies to fine tune your approach and set goals for growth in transformative learning in every simulation session!
Immersive Practice
Effective debriefing is much more than a set of skills and techniques; it requires practice and feedback. This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to practice debriefing deteriorating patient scenarios, receive feedback and reflect on their practice.
This is a Monash University developed and certificated NHET Sim course, Health Education Collaborative (HEC) are endorsed Monash University NHET Sim Host providers.
The theory component is via Monash University online learning. Workshops are delivered by HEC – all details are on our website.
Audience: Clinical/health educators
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Spirometry Training Course | Wangaratta
2025-06-05 09:00 - 16:30 | Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway, 29-37 Ryley Street, Wangaratta, VIC, 3677, Australia
The Spirometry Training Course is brought to you by Murray PHN and the National Asthma Council Australia as part of the National Asthma Council Australia’s Asthma Education Program.
This six-hour interactive workshop is for local practice nurses, GPs and other primary healthcare professionals. It will provide comprehensive training in the application, measurement and interpretation of expiratory spirometry in general practice.
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Accreditation:

This activity has been approved by RACGP for 4.5 hours of Educational Activities and 1.5 hours of Reviewing Performance. RACGP Activity ID 409754.
This activity has been approved by ACRRM as an educational event for 6 hours. ACRRM Activity ID 35243.

Motivational Interviewing Training | Wangaratta
2025-06-05 09:00 - 16:00 | Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway, 29-37 Ryley Street, Wangaratta, VIC, 3677, Australia
