The General Practice Integration Unit delivers activities that support and strengthen the interface between Western Health and General Practice to improve patient care.
We:
Implement quality improvement activities to optimise the quality of inpatient handover and Specialist Clinic correspondence to General Practice.
Provide a central escalation point of contact for General Practice to assist with accessing hospital services.
Respond to, record, and implement quality improvement activities based on General Practice feedback.
Provide regular updates to GPs about Western Health services via the General Practice Newsletter.
Provide advice to health service staff on issues relating to General Practice.
Liaise with community partners on projects to improve the Acute/ Primary Care interface.
Western Health is transitioning to HealthLink as our Secure Messaging Delivery (SMD) provider for clinical documentation, with Go-Live set for Tuesday, 15 October 2024.
While our GPIU can assist you with the transition to receiving clinical documentation via HealthLink, it is important that you take steps as outlined in the correspondence below, to prepare and ensure you can receive clinical correspondence from Western Health. We encourage you to do so by Friday, 15 November 2024.
You can read recent correspondence to General Practitioners and Practice Managers via the NWMPHN catchment, by clicking the links below:
For more information, visit our HealthLink Secure Messaging Delivery for Clinical Correspondence page and HealthLink FAQ pages.
