39th CARPA Conference:
10th & 11th October 2003

"Better Communication, Better Care"
In conjunction with the Royal Australian College of Physicians NT
Annual Scientific Meeting.

Centre for Remote Health. Cnr Simpson & Skinner Sts, Alice Springs
 
Friday 10 October
12:00 - 13:00 Registration, light lunch
  Chair: Cathy Love
13:00 - 15:00 Introduction - Peter Tait
  Beyond the Eclipse - Christopher Brocklebank
  Communicating in PHC - Christine Connors
  Adult learning theories - Susan Wearne
  Teaching practitioners to communicate - Sabina Knight
  Teaching cross cultural communication
  What do patients want to know? AHWs and patients
  Discussion
   
15:00 - 15:30 Tea break
   
15:30 - 16:00 Small group discussion: communicating or dictating
- why don't we communicate well
- what we can we do to change this (personal and clinic level)
16:00 - 16:30 Feedback and discussion
16:30 - 16:45 Recommended strategies for CARPA to progress
 
Saturday 11th October
08:30 - 09:45 CARPA snippets
Chair: Nina Kilfoyle
  S100 evaluation update - Fran Vaughan
Improving pharmacy services in communities - Alex Hope
Healthy Lands, Healthy People - Paul Burgess
Role of NT Australian Kidney Foundation - Jeannie Devitt
Trichomonas study update - Kirsty Smith
Managing STIs in children - Annie Wybourne
   
09:45 - 10:05 Morning tea
   
10:05 - 11:15 Rheumatic heart disease
Chair: Steve Brady
  Rheumatic heart disease registers: improving communicating between practitioners - Alex Brown and Keith Edwards
  RHD and skin sores: is there a link? - Malcolm McDonald
  Reflections on a Top End control program - Zinta Harrington
  Communication tools: family feedback - Loyla Leysley (video and booklets)
  Discussion
11:15 - 12:45

Growing healthy kids
Chair: Mike Williams

  GAA data: what's improving, what's not, where to now - Andrew White
  Sharing stories with communities, success at Kintore womens centre - Ilan Walchiver
  NPY Women's Council - Liza Balmer
  Different stories, different strategies - Danielle Smith
  Discussion
   
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch (provided)
   
13:30 - 14:45 Improving diabetes care
Chair: Sabina Knight
  Improving diabetes control - Ciara O'Sullivan
  Personal experience - Betty Rawson
  Communicating information -
  Experience in remote PHC GP, RAN & AHW -
  Discussion with panel
   
14:45 - 15:15 Afternoon tea
   
15:15 - 16:15 Chronic lung disease
Chair: Alan Walker
  Paediatric experience - Paul Torzillo and Paul Bauert
  Adult experience - Colin Matthews
  Communicating with families: options for prophylactic antibiotics Discussion with panel
   
16:15
CARPA AGM
16:15 RACP meeting
16:45 AFPHM meeting
   
7 pm
Evening function: BBQ 28 Chewing St, BYO drinks.
 
Registration payable on the day - Conference and BBQ $70
Day or Session rate $35
  Further information:
Sabina Knight (Convener) sabina.knight@cdu.edu.au
Phone: 8951 4709 or 0417 823 933
  Christine Connors: christine.connors@nt.gov.au
  Peter Tait: aspert@bigpond.com
 
RACP Annual Scientific Meeting: Sunday 12 October
all welcome
09:00 - 09:30 Introduction - Mark Williams
Equity and access in medical care - Jim Hyde
09:30 - 10:45 Ear health
Chair: Andrew White
  What will pneumococcal conjugate vaccine do for prevention of CSOM in Aboriginal children -
Amanda Leach Menzies
  Impact of a 7-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on infant pneumococcal carriage and otitis media
- Grant McKenzie Menzies
  The role of topical quinolones in the treatment of CSOM - Peter Morris Menzies
  Ear toilet and CSOM: results from PNG - Keith Edwards RDH
  Discussion
   
10:45 - 11:15 Morning tea
   
11:15 - 12:30 Cardiac Disease
Chair: Steve Brady
  The benefits and limitations of a multicentre ordit of acute conronary symptoms at RDH - Tristan Smythe RDH
  Use of thrombolytics for AMI in remote areas - Jo Wright DHCS Darwin
  Anticoagulation in patients with Mitral Valve Prostheses in the Top End
- Tristan Smythe RDH
  Audit program facilities in Caresys: a brief introduction
  Discussion
   
12:30 - 13:15 Lunch (provided)
   
13:15 - 14:45 And more.....
Chair: Jean Collie
  Thyroid disease in CA: a profile - Ciara O'Sullivan ASH
  Case conferencing about ESRD - Paul Lawton RDH
  Communicating complex issues effectively: Western desert dialysis project - Sarah Brown
  Vibrio infections in Borroloola - Anna Ralph RDH
  Discussion
15:00 Close