Impact West Primary Care Summit 2024
Program 8:30am Registration 9:00am Official greeting: Dr Norman Swan, Welcome to Country: Aunty Julie Jones and Opening remarks: Andrew Newton, CEO, WentWest 9:30am Keynote Speaker: Dr Daniel Nour, founder of Street Side Medics 10:00am Community-driven solutions: Health and social priorities: Citizens Assembly members and Dr Coralie Wales, Relationships to Partnerships lead, WentWest 10:45am Networking morning tea […]
Medicare Mental Health Centre Announced for Blacktown
(L-R) Julie Toma, Board Director of Western NSW PHN; Freddy Ortega, Executive Manager, Operational Excellence and Performance, Western NSW PHN; Jane Assange, Director of Primary Care Transformation & Integration, WentWest – Western Sydney PHN; Donna Davis MP, Member for Parramatta; Hon Emma McBride MP, Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention; Hon Rose Jackson […]
Remarkable Success of Place-Based Organisation Improving Community Health Outcomes
Jelly Magirazi, Senior Commissioning and Contracts Manager, WSPHN; Angela Van Dyke, CEO, North West Community Services; Kieran Mahony, Contracts Manager, WSPHN; Cnr Brad Bunting, Mayor, Blacktown City Council; Michelle Quinn, Executive Director, WSPHN The North-West Sydney corridor has been a rapidly growing region, home to a population of over one million people. Parts of Blacktown […]
Launch of the Western Sydney Citizens’ Assembly
Andrew Newton, CEO at WentWest, Professor Glen Maberly, Director at Western Sydney Diabetes, Professor Di O’Halloran, AO, Chair of the WentWest Board, Professor Penny Abbott, Western Sydney University, Professor Anne-Marie Hennessey, Western Sydney University Western Sydney is an incredibly diverse region, home to 1,080,817[1] people with 57%[1] of the region using a language other than […]
You’re Invited to the 2024 the Impact West – Primary Care Summit
GPs, practice nurses and managers, allied health professionals, community representatives and representatives from local residential aged care homes are invited to the Impact West – Primary Care Summit. The Summit is a landmark event to bring together Western Sydney’s primary care community to inspire, collaborate and make meaningful connections. Date: Saturday 21 September 2024 Time: […]
GP Bulk Billing and MyMedicare on the Rise
Recent data has showed that general practice bulk billing, along with MyMedicare participation for practices and Australians is on the rise. General Practice bulk billing rates have increased nationally by 3.4% [1] over the last 7 months since triple bulk billing changes came into effect on 1 November 2023. This amounts to two million additional […]
Making Health Care Accessible to People Experiencing Homelessness Through our Winter Grants Funding
To support the community during the 2024 winter season, we offered grant opportunities to accredited general practices across the local government areas of Blacktown, The Hills Shire, Parramatta and Cumberland. The grants were offered to support the delivery of COVID-19 and Flu vaccination clinics, either in practice or community, to vulnerable patient groups. The clinics […]
New Western Sydney Dementia Handbook
Statistics show more than 400,000 Australians are living with dementia and 12,000 of those people live in Western Sydney(1). Around half of the people living with dementia remain undiagnosed. We have developed a Western Sydney Dementia Handbook to assist your patients and their loved ones, in accessing the support needed from the time of a dementia […]
Reconciliation is Needed Now More Than Ever in Our Western Sydney Region
National Reconciliation Week (NRW), held between 27 May and 3 June, is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures and achievements and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. This year’s NRW theme is ‘Now more than ever’ reminding us that in every circumstance, […]
Cultivating Community to Improve Health Outcomes
Western Sydney has one of the largest populations of First Nations peoples in Australia, with over 20,537 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples calling Western Sydney, on Darug land, home[i]. Unfortunately, despite improvements to the life expectancy of First Nations peoples, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children born in NSW between 2020-2022 are still expected […]