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2000 National Conference

Post script March 2001:

A number of presentations from the conference were published in issue 74 of New Doctor. Five are currently available online. These are:

Rural Primary Health Care in Australia: What Can We Learn?  David Simmons
Models of Primary Health Care: The New Zealand Experience  Beverley Sibthorpe  
Models of Primary Health Care: The U.K. Experience  Brian McAvoy  
The Way Backward in Primary Health Care: Corporatised Medical Centres  Tim Woodruff
Corporatisation of General Practice: A Professional Viewpoint Con Costa

Venue:
Kathleen Syme Education Centre
Cnr Cardigan & Faraday Sts
Carlton, Melbourne.

For more information please contact Carol at the DRS National Office in Sydney 02 9264 9084 or by email drs@nlc.net.au

21 October 2000

Primary Health Care: the way forward

9.15am Welcome Dr Tim Woodruff, DRS Vic President

9.20 Primary Health Care: Where have we come from? A/Prof David Legge, LaTrobe Uni

10.00 Primary Health Care: Where are we now? Ms Liz Furler, Dept Health and Aged Care

10.40 Morning Tea

11.15 Lessons from Indigenous Health: Models for primary health care Dr John Boffa, Central australian Aboriginal Congress

12.00 Lessons from rural health: what can we learn? Prof David Simmons, Dept Rural Health, Uni of Melbourne

12.45 Lunch

1.30pm Models of Primary Health Care: the New Zealand experience TBA

2.00 Models of Primary Health Care: the UK experience Dr Brian McAvoy, RACGP

2.30 Primary Care Partnerships: Victoria as a model TBA

3.00 New Models for Collaboration: Nurse practitioners Dr Lyndall Whitecross

3.30 Afternoon tea

3.45 Overview David Legge

4.30 Close

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22 October 2000

DRS Australia AGM - members only

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