Viral Hepatitis Education Training 2025
FREE lunchtime webinars on liver disease
& viral hepatitis
Running weekly February - April 2025 at 12:30 to 1:15pm on Tuesdays (except Week 10 is on a Wednesday). Please see the flyer with more details and registration here
- Week 1: Tuesday 18th February. Basics of Viral Hepatitis
- Week 2: Tuesday 25th February. How do I start the conversation about testing for hepatitis C?
- Week 3: Tuesday 4th March. Innovative incentivisation for HCV testing and treatment
- Week 4: Tuesday 11th March. The intersection of mental health and viral hepatitis
- Week 5: Tuesday 18th March. Liver Cancer screening in General Practice
- Week 6: Tuesday 25th March. Viral hepatitis in pregnancy & care in the postnatal period
- Week 7: Tuesday 1st April. Management of stable hepatitis B in general practice
- Week 8: Tuesday 8th April. Cirrhosis assessment and management
- Week 9: Tuesday 15th April. Abnormal LFTs - what could it be?
- Week 10: Wednesday 23rd April:. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)
Hepatitis B Made Easy: Seminars 2025
Four Online webinars 10:00am - 11:30am (1.5 hours) for health, support and community workers who wish to learn the basics about hepatitis B and how best to talk about it.
- Wednesday 12 March 2025
- Tuesday 17 June 2025
- Thursday 25 September 2025
- Wednesday 26 November 2025
For further information and to register, click here.
Bloody Serious Facts: Workshop Dates 2025
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and Harm Reduction Victoria have partnered to provide interactive education workshops on hepatitis C, including diagnosis, treatments and strategies to increase awareness and support clients into health care.
Face to Face (highly encouraged) or Online.
- Thursday 27 February 2025 (Face to face) 09:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 17 April 2025: (Face to face) 09:00 - 12:30pm
- Thursday 15 May 2025: (Online) 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Thursday 24 July 2025: (Face to face) 09:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 18 September 2025: (Face to face) 09:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 16 October 2025: (Online) 10:00am - 12:00pm
Click here for flyer with more information and to register.
Liver and Viral Hepatitis webinar series 2024 (free recorded sessions) for general practitioners and practice nurses
In early 2024 the Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator facilitated weekly lunchtime webinar sessions about all things liver disease and viral hepatitis. Over 11 weeks the best in the business, including St Vincent’s own Gastroenterologists and nurses plus lots of big brains in the viral hepatitis, alcohol & other drugs, data surveillance, HIV and harm reduction arenas, walked us through a topic in depth around viral hepatitis. Below are the recordings of most sessions - watch all nine sessions for a great overview of liver disease and viral hepatitis or pick and choose sessions that suit your area of work or interest.
Each recording is 40 minutes.
• Week 1: Liver Cancer Screening - A/Prof Jessica Howell
• Week 2: Viral Hepatitis Serology Explained - Dr Jacqui Richmond
• Week 3: Hepatitis C Treatment - A/Prof Jacinta Holmes
• Week 4: Liver Cirrhosis 101 - Prof Alex Thompson
• Week 5: Hepatitis B Treatment - Dr David Iser
• Week 6: Viral Hepatitis Mapping Project - Jennifer MacLachlan (not recorded due to unpublished data being discussed, please contact Mieken.grant@svha.org.au or Jennifer.MacLachlan@vidrl.org.au for presentation slides
• Week 7: A Focus on Injecting practices that lead to poor health outcomes - Jane Dicka (not recorded. Please contact Mieken.grant@svha.org.au or janed@hrvic.org.au for information or to book into ‘Bloody Serious Facts’ education)
• Week 8: The Changing Landscape of Opioid Use Disorders - Dr Adam Pastor
• Week 9: Pregnancy & Viral Hepatitis - Dr Naomi Whyler
• Week 10: HIV and Viral Hepatitis Coinfection - Dr David Iser
• Week 11: Innovative approaches to Viral Hepatitis - Anne Craigie
GP Webinar: St Vincent’s Melbourne Home Based Services – ‘Better@Home’?
Video available on-demand.
This webinar was held on Tuesday 4 October 2022 and the video is available on-demand via this link: https://app.praxhub.com/education/732
This free webinar provides an orientation to the increasing range of @Home services on offer at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, including patients and presentations that can be cared for via home-based services, referral pathways and the GP’s role in these models of care. 3 RACGP CPD program points allocated (1.5 hours).
Presented through the free Praxhub portal by specialists from St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Program
Chair
Dr Rachael Sutherland, GP Liaison Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.
Introduction to St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Better@Home
Dr Richard Kane - Clinical Director of Geriatric Medicine, Home & Community Services, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
GEM@Home
Dr Beth La Brooy - Consultant Geriatrician and Medical Lead Better@Home, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
Rehab@Home
Dr David Murphy - Director of Rehabilitation, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.
Other @Home Services
Dr Beth La Brooy - Consultant Geriatrician and Medical Lead Better@Home, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
Q&A Panel discussion
GPs will be prompted to login (or Register - free) to Praxhub to access this page, and this step will facilitate GPs then receiving their CPD certificate post-webinar.
Praxhub is an authorised Provider of education under the RACGP CPD Program. More information about Praxhub: https://praxhub.com/
Supported by Eastern Melbourne Primary Care Network: https://www.emphn.org.au/
Don’t forget HealthPathways Melbourne for referral pathways:
https://melbourne.communityhealthpathways.org/
Then search using the keywords:
- Frailty in Older Adults
-
Unexpected Deterioration in an Older Adult
Advance Care Planning Education for GPs and Practice Nurses
Advance Care Planning Australia offers free webinars for Health Professionals https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/training-and-education/online-courses, and other training opportunities https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/training-and-education
Excellent links to resources available at HealthPathways Melbourne, login and search Advance Care Planning or ACP.
Click here for a summary of Advance Care Planning MBS guidance for GPs and practice nurses.
St Vincent’s rehabilitation support for patients with post COVID 19 complications
Many patients suffer prolonged physical, cognitive and functional impairments after COVID 19 infection, especially after ICU or other hospitalisation.
St Vincent’s is offering multidisciplinary rehabilitation at Kew or Fairfield sites or via Rehab-in-The-Home for patients in cities of Yarra, Darebin (South of Preston) and Boroondara. For surrounding suburbs, please enquire with the service.
If in isolation, telehealth options are available.
For further information and to refer, click here.
Enquiries:
Tel: 1300 131 470
Fax referrals: (03) 9231 2202
IMPORTANT INFORMATION for GPs (Update 15 June 2022)
Referrals to St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Specialist Clinics
- St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Specialist Clinics are accepting referrals including those seeking an opinion or advice on diagnosis and management.
- Face to face, telehealth and telephone consultations are allocated as appropriate, with an increased number of face-to-face appointments available.
- Please remind your patients to bring their current GP and practice contact details.
- Due to COVID 19 restrictions over the last two years, please be aware that we do have a backlog of non-urgent referrals which we are now prioritising alongside urgent referrals.
- Thank you for your patience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please don't forget the excellent resource: HealthPathways Melbourne
Referrals to St Vincent's for patients with a positive FOBT
A reminder, when referring your patients with a positive FOBT to Endoscopy Services to St V's, please indicate clearly on your letter whether the test was done through the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP).
Patients with a positive FOBT in the NBCSP are fast-tracked and will get their endoscopy with 30 days, so please let us know.
Please use our special Endoscopy Referral form for all referrals where your patient is likely to require an endoscopy. For referral form, click here.
Advance Care Planning information for GPs
St Vincent’s supports Advance Care Planning and encourages clinical staff to have discussions with patients and their families, and to assist them to consider and express their informed free and autonomous preferences about their future health care needs and treatment goals.
When you refer patients to St Vincent’s, if they have an Advance Care Directive, please provide this to us. Similarly if a patient you care for is a known St Vincent’s patient and has an Advance Care Directive, please provide this to St Vincent’s. This encourages shared decision making in line with the patient’s values and presences and in accordance with the Medical Treatment, Planning and Decisions Act (VIC) 2016.
For further assistance with Advance Care Planning at St Vincent's Hospital, please contact the Advance Care Planning Program Manager, Caroline Scott on 9231 1938 or at svhm.eolc@SVHA.org.au or visit our website /our-services/departments-and-services/a/advance-care-planning. For more information about Advance Care Planning, go to HealthPathways Melbourne, login and search Advance Care Planning or ACP.
Click here for a summary of Advance Care Planning MBS guidance for GPs and practice nurses.
Feedback welcome: please email gp.feedback@svha.org.au
GP Advisory Group – Established to serve as a “brains trust” for the GP Liaison Unit so that we may communicate a broader representative position to SVHM and check our assessment and understanding of issues at hand.
GP, Practice Nurse and Practice Manager members participate in discussion (mostly via email) where they have something to add but are not obliged to do so for every matter under discussion. If you are interested in joining St Vincent’s GP Advisory Group, please contact Dr Rachael Sutherland rachael.sutherland@svha.org.au