Emergency skills workshop | Bendigo
2025-10-25 08:45 - 16:45 (Australia/Melbourne) | Bendigo Health West Wing – Learning Space 2, Hope Street, Bendigo, Australia
6th Annual Emergency Medicine Procedural Workshop for GPs
Bendigo Health Emergency Department presents another day of high fidelity, hands-on, advanced procedural skills course for rural GPs. This year learn Neonatal/Paediatric Resuscitation, Ear Nose and Throat (ENT), Adult BLS/CPR, Point of Care Ultrasound and Dental Emergencies.
1 day. 5 procedural stations. FACEM faculty.
✓ Update your emergency knowledge
✓ Practice your procedural skills
✓ Refine your techniques
✓ Apply system level changes for enhanced patient safety
✓ Meet your regional emergency physicians
Target audience: GPs
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Endometriosis masterclass | Online
2025-10-25 09:00 - 14:00 | Victoria
Hosted by Monash University
This one-day live online course brings together a panel of experts and endometriosis specialists to discuss the latest evidence-based approaches and review real-world cases. Participants will uncover key insights into diagnostic challenges, minimally invasive techniques, pain management approaches and fertility preservation strategies, equipping them to improve patient outcomes throughout every stage of endometriosis care.
Learning outcomes:

Identify key considerations for managing complications of endometriosis across the reproductive lifespan.
Discuss the latest evidence-based clinical practices for the diagnosis and management of endometriosis.
Recognise the role of interdisciplinary assessments and approaches in optimising care for individuals with endometriosis.
Formulate management and referral plans for endometriosis and its associated conditions.

Target audience: GPs, allied health, physiotherapists, nurses
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Project ECHO series | Heart matters: Rapid recognition and response in primary care | Online
2025-10-28 07:30 - 08:30 | Webinar
Western Victoria Primary Health Network invites all primary care clinicians to join their weekly Project ECHO – Emergencies in Primary Care Series.
Each session features subject matter experts who will provide concise updates, practical tips and review the latest guidelines. Participants are encouraged to engage in case-based discussions with peers and gain actionable insights to improve patient experiences and outcomes.
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Statewide Victorian PHN Immunisation Forum | Online
2025-10-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Victoria
Hosted by Western Victoria Primary Health Network (PHN), this event is a joint initiative with Murray PHN, Gippsland PHN, North Western Melbourne PHN, Eastern Melbourne PHN and South Eastern Melbourne PHN.
Presenters:

Immunisation Program, Victorian Department of Health
Philippa Holland, Immunisation Coordinator, City of Melbourne Council

Topics:

NIP update

Uptake rates – childhood, adolescent
Childhood pneumococcal changes
Seasonal overview – Influenza and RSV

Vaccination in pregnancy (flu, dTpa, RSV)
Mosquito borne diseases season launch – JE vaccination
Immunisation Catch-Up: Challenges, Tips & Tricks for Overseas Migrants new to Australia

Audience: Nurses, nurse practitioners, GPs, GP registrars, pharmacists, practice managers and other health professionals.
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Initial Assessment and Referral for Mental Healthcare Training | Online
2025-10-29 18:30 - 21:00, 2025-11-11 12:00 - 14:30, 2025-11-19 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.
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.
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Aged Care reform update for GPs: new strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards | Online
2025-10-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Victoria
Hosted by Primary Health Tasmania
The new strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, including a new focus on clinical care and food/nutrition, will take effect from 1 November 2025 under the new Aged Care Act. While the standards are designed for aged care providers and their staff, GPs are integral to delivering high-quality care to older people, making an understanding of the new requirements, particularly regarding clinical care, crucial for providing effective and person-centred services.
Learning outcomes:

Identify changes to the new Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards.
Understand the role GPs play in the new Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards.
Demonstrate how to apply the new Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards in practice.

Target audience: GPs and general practice staff
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Managing Wounds in Primary Healthcare Workshop | Mildura (sold out)
2025-10-30 09:00 - 16:30 | Quest Mildura Apartment Hotel, 119 Madden Avenue, Mildura, Victoria, 3500, Australia
This workshop will enable healthcare professionals to develop foundational knowledge and skills to assess, manage and help prevent further deterioration of wounds in primary healthcare. It will provide clinicians with an evidence-based framework to assess and manage a variety of wounds, while understanding the importance of client-centred education and care.
Open to: Aboriginal health practitioners, Aboriginal health workers, primary healthcare nurses, GPs, GP registrars, pharmacists and other primary healthcare professionals working in the Murray PHN region.
This workshop is sold out.

General practice network meeting | Albury
2025-10-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Atura Hotel, 648 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, 2640, Australia
General practice staff are invited to attend this meeting to network with peers, receive industry updates and discuss quality improvement learnings with our GP support team. The evening will also include a presentation from Wendy O’Meara.
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Supporting coordination of palliative care | Echuca (CANCELLED)
2025-10-30 18:15 - 20:30 | Quest Echuca, 25-29 Heygarth Street, Echuca, Victoria, 3564, Australia
GPs and GP registrars are invited to come together to learn, share knowledge and improve their palliative care practice. The event will welcome Dr Anna Keedwell, Palliative Care Specialist from Bendigo Community Specialist Palliative Care Service and Jan Carey, Community Specialist Palliative Care ANUM/ Nurse Consultant at Echuca Regional Health.
Please note that this event has been cancelled.

Hepatitis C in primary care | Online
2025-11-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Victoria
Hosted by ASHM Health
Hepatitis C treatment is simple and highly effective!
Primary care providers can play a crucial role in the elimination of hepatitis C in Australia by 2030. This online workshop will provide an overview of the management of hepatitis C in primary care settings. Topics covered include the impact of hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination, case finding, testing and diagnosis, assessment, treatment and monitoring.
Target audience: Doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, and other community-based health professionals
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Beginning child aware conversations with parents who use substances | Online
2025-11-05 19:15 - 20:30 | Victoria
Hosted by the Mental Health Professionals Network
Working with families where substance use is part of their lived experience can be complex and multifaceted, often intersecting with other health and wellbeing needs.
This webinar will help you strengthen your skills in child-aware practice, supporting conversations that keep children’s wellbeing central while recognising the strengths, motivations, and protective capacity of families.
Join our panel for practical strategies to reduce stigma, build trust, and hold child-aware conversations that put children’s wellbeing at the centre.
Target audience: Mental health professionals
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Stroke masterclass for GPs at the Victorian Heart Hospital | Melbourne
2025-11-06 17:00 - 20:30 | Victorian Heart Hospital, 631 Blackburn Rd, Clayton, 3168
The Monash Victorian Heart Institute invites primary care physicians, nurses and allied health professionals to attend our stroke masterclass. Our program was designed specifically with general practitioners in mind and our evidence-based presentations have a strong focus on providing practical advice with plenty of time for Q&A so you can gain the specific knowledge you require.
Our workshop aims to provide education and practical insights to improve your confidence in the assessment and management of patients with stroke.
Target audience: GPs
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Murray PHN local mental health and psychosocial services | Shepparton
2025-11-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Quality Hotel Parklake, 481 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, VIC, 3630, Australia
GP and GP Registrars who work in the Shepparton region and are involved in the mental health assessment and referral process, are invited to attend this in-person dinner event for an overview of local mental health services commissioned by Murray PHN and the opportunity to share experiences and ideas for improvement. An incentive payment is available to participants.
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Update in urogynaecology | Mildura
2025-11-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Botanica Restaurant, 413 Deakin Avenue, Mildura, VIC, 3500, Australia
GPs and GP registrars are invited to come together to learn, share knowledge and improve their practice. Hear from Dr Andrew Foote, Obstetrician, Gynaecologist and Urogynaecologist at Mildura Base Public Hospital on the latest developments in the treatment of urogynaecological conditions.
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Project ECHO series | Code red: GP strategies for heatwave health crises | Online
2025-11-11 07:30 - 08:30 | Webinar

Breath, bowel and beyond – a thoracic and colorectal journey for GPs | Bendigo
2025-11-11 18:00 - 21:00 | MacKenzie Quarters, 10 - 12 Mackenzie Street, Bendigo, Victoria, 3550, Australia
St John of God Bendigo Hospital warmly invites you to attend a two-hour educational session focused on the latest issues in thoracic and colorectal care, specifically tailored for general practitioners. As key players in lung and bowel cancer screening, GPs are essential in encouraging patient participation, determining eligibility, interpreting test results, and coordinating follow-up care.
The evening will showcase presentations from five of our expert thoracic and colorectal surgeons, offering valuable perspectives to support your work in primary care.
Target audience: General practitioners
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Introduction to Aboriginal Cultural Safety | Online
2025-11-12 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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Comorbidity guidelines: Disasters, climate change and mental health | Online
2025-11-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Victoria
Hosted by The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use – University of Sydney
This webinar will give an overview of the impact of disasters and climate change on mental health and is part of a webinar series focused on applying evidence into practice.
Professor Lisa Gibbs is a Professor of Public Health and Director of the Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Academic Lead for Community Resilience and Public Health in the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety. Her research focuses on disaster recovery and resilience particularly relating to the interplay between individual and community level outcomes.
Learning outcomes:

Understand the potential long term mental health impacts of disaster exposure
Outline protective strategies for mental health and wellbeing in disaster contexts
Identify where to find helpful resources for working with communities affected by disaster

Target audience: Health professionals
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IPC webinar: Infection prevention and control principles and practices | Webinar
2025-11-13 13:30 - 14:45 | Webinar
Residential aged care home managers, clinical, care and environmental services staff are invited to this webinar to hear from Megan Reilly from Hands-On Infection Control, on the principles of infection prevention and control to consumer care and support services in the residential aged care home setting.
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Viral Hepatitis Co-Infections (Hepatitis Delta HDV) | Online
2025-11-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Victoria
Hosted by ASHM Health
Attend this national webinar to learn more about HDV co-infection from global and regional experts. The session will address HDV in relation to both HBV and HCV co-infections and is available live and on-demand through ASHM’s learning platform.
This webinar targets doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, policymakers, researchers, public health workers and communities affected by HDV, aiming to improve testing and management capabilities.
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Project ECHO series | Silver alerts: Emergency care in aged care settings | Online
2025-11-18 07:30 - 08:30 | Webinar

Pragmatic guidance for clinicians to support the safe and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare | Online
2025-11-18 18:30 - 19:15 | Webinar
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can support a wide range of clinical tasks, improving care delivery, health outcomes, and patient satisfaction. As an emerging technology in healthcare that is being rapidly implemented, AI can also introduce new risks to patients.
This Victorian Tasmanian Primary Health Network Alliance webinar will welcome speakers from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
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General Practice Network Meeting | Kyneton
2025-11-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health, 1 Caroline Chisholm Drive, Kyneton, Victoria, 3444, Australia
Murray PHN invites all general practice staff to attend our General Practice Network Meeting. Join Bridget Parris, Clinical Lead from Mostyn Street Clinic present about managing chronic pain patients and Seffi Ceballos, Practice Nurse from Larter Consulting lead a Q&A. Dinner will be provided.
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Heart, breath and balance – navigating complex cardiac presentations in primary care | Online
2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Victoria
Hosted by Epworth Richmond
Topics:
1: DYSLIPIDEMIA: A 2025 PRACTICAL GUIDE
Presented by Dr Omar Al-Mukhtar, Interventional and Structural Cardiologist
Learning outcome: Identify clinical scenarios of dyslipidemia and link them to specific recommendations in the current guidelines.
2: DYSPNOEA IN GENERAL PRACTICE: A CARDIOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
Presented by Dr Nigel Sutherland, Cardiologist and Cardiac Imaging Specialist
Learning outcomes:

Outline the common causes of dyspnoea
Identify indications for transthoracic echocardiogram and stress echocardiogram and interpret reports.

3: POTS – YOU NEED TO PLANT YOUR FEET
Presented by Dr Joshua Sansom, General Physician
Learning outcome: Outline the concept of POTS and alternative diagnoses that have to be considered.
Q&A will be held after each presentation and panel Q&A to conclude the webinar.
Target audience: GPs and practice nurses
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Difficult conversations | Online
2025-11-20 10:00 - 14:00 | Online
Hosted by the Studer Group Australia
This interactive session is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the confidence, tools, and techniques to handle challenging discussions effectively and constructively.
Participants will learn how to:
• Prepare themselves mentally and emotionally to have “the” conversation
• Build confidence and skill in addressing sensitive topics
• Apply a proven framework to deliver feedback that drives performance
• Strengthen accountability and engagement within their teams
By the end of the session, attendees will walk away with practical strategies and renewed confidence to turn difficult conversations into opportunities for growth, trust and connection.
Target audience: Healthcare professionals
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General Practice Network Meeting | Echuca (CANCELLED)
2025-11-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Echuca Regional Health Education Centre Lecture room, Leichardt Street, Echuca, Victoria, 3564, Australia
General practice staff are invited to this meeting to network and participate in discussions with our general practice support team and other health professionals.
Ash Reid, Critical Care Registered Nurse from Dove Medical will discuss a nurse-led cancer screening model of care.
Note this event has been cancelled.

Lifting the lid on participation: conducting effective audits to improve National Bowel Cancer Screening Program uptake | Bendigo
2025-11-20 18:00 - 21:00 | MacKenzie Quarters, 10 - 12 Mackenzie Street, Bendigo, Victoria, 3550, Australia
Hosted by GPEx with funding from the Australian Government – Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.
General practitioners, practice staff and Aboriginal healthcare workers play a vital role in promoting the importance of early detection of bowel cancer by encouraging and endorsing participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. This practical workshop explores bowel cancer screening in people who are hesitant to screen. You will engage in case discussions to explore the barriers to screening and some of the enablers that you or a practice team can implement to encourage screening within your practice. Get your team started on an audit for bowel cancer screening within your clinic and identify practice improvements. Planning an audit is often the most challenging step – this workshop will help break it down and provide tools to get you started to ensure success.
Learning outcomes:

Identify practices that support engaging patients in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
Determine system improvements within practices to improve patient engagement with the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
Identify and apply Practitioner and Practice Toolkit Resources that support mini-audit activities

Presenter: Dr. Camilla Holdstock, B Sc (Hons), MBBS, PhD, FRACGP
RACGP CPD Approved (RACGP Activity No. 1221105), ACRRM CPD Accredited, ACNP Endorsed, NAATSIHWP Endorsed for 3 CPD Hours:
– Educational activities: 1.5 hours
– Reviewing performance: 1 hour
– Measuring outcomes: 0.5 hours
Target audience: General practitioners, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, enrolled nurses
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Mosquito-borne diseases - public health unit update | Wangaratta (CANCELLED)
2025-11-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Quality Hotel Gateway, 27-39 Ryley Street, Wangaratta, Victoria, 3677, Australia
Local GPs and GP registrars are invited to come together to learn and share knowledge. Dr Anthony Zheng from the Ovens Murray Public Health Unit will give an update on mosquito-borne diseases. The evening will also include details on Murray PHN programs and resources including general practice support and the AGPT Workforce Planning & Prioritisation program.
Please note that this event has now been cancelled.
