HealthPathways is an online clinical management and referral resource designed for health professionals to use during consultations with their patients. It aims to guide best-practice assessment and management of common medical conditions, including when and where to refer patients, with guidance on what information is needed to maximise the quality of referrals and reduce waiting time for patients. Having locally relevant and reliable information, including resources, together and accessible in one place saves health professionals’ time.
Doctors, medical students and specialists, nurses and allied health practitioners, along with other health professionals who are working in the Murray PHN region, can receive access to this resource to use within their scope of practice. It is available at no-cost. To hear local professional perspectives on what it is and the benefits of using it, watch the video below or to access or login now click on the buttons.
Who develops HealthPathways
Local GPs are employed to work alongside specialists to ensure that pathways remain locally relevant and evidence-based. Our team of clinical editors that contribute to pathway development are:
Dr Ann-Marie McKinnon
Senior Clinical Editor
Dr Amy Greene
Clinical Editor
Dr Jaskarandip Singh
Clinical Editor
Dr Jayant Banerji
Clinical Editor
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With ever-changing guidelines, health systems and the movement of practitioners, HealthPathways makes it easy to stay abreast of these changes. GPs and health professionals can access hundreds of best practice clinical guidelines at their fingertips.
Additional pathways benefits:
Agreed treatment and management criteria improves the standard of care and minimises variations in care.
Local referral information helps patients to receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
When patients are better managed in the community, the demand on higher acuity services is reduced.
The HealthPathways process brings together subject matter experts to research and agree on best practice care and localised referral options, including how patients are best managed between primary care and secondary and tertiary health services in our region. Led by local GPs who are employed as Clinical Editors, and working with other specialists, pathways are constantly being added or reviewed and updated to ensure they remain aligned with best practice approaches and are relevant to the local context.
Our team works with:
Individual primary care and specialist clinicians
Local, public and private health services and hospitals
Victorian Department of Health
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
HealthPathways teams across Australia
GPs and other primary healthcare professionals within the Murray PHN region can access HealthPathways.
There is no cost involved and logins can be granted for individuals or whole organisations.
Designed for use during consultations, there are hundreds of pathway pages with information on:
how to assess and manage a range of symptoms and conditions
how to refer patients to local specialists and services in the timeliest manner
“I am a fan of whatever saves me, as a practitioner, time. My favourite feature of pathways is the patient resources, which can be printed from a single source, rather than visiting individual websites.”
– Dr Ann-Marie McKinnon
Leadership
Collaboration
Respect
Accountability
Innovation
Murray PHN acknowledges its catchment crosses over many unceded First Nations Countries, following the Dhelkunya Yaluk (Healing River).
We pay our respects and give thanks to the Ancestors, Elders and Young people for their nurturing, protection and caregiving of these sacred lands and waterways, acknowledging their continuing cultural, spiritual and educational practices.
We are grateful for the sharing of Country and the renewal that Country gives us. We acknowledge and express our sorrow that this sharing has come at a personal, spiritual and cultural cost to the wellbeing of First Nations peoples. We commit to addressing the injustices of colonisation across our catchment, and to listening to the wisdom of First Nations communities who hold the knowledge to enable healing. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Leadership 
Collaboration 
Respect 
Accountability 
Innovation