Elevate Your Antenatal Expertise: Essential Insights You Won’t Want to Miss!
Your GP Obstetric Shared Care Team are big believers in the power of staying in the loop! Your ongoing dedication and active participation in the program play a pivotal role in making it a success!
We’re excited to present the newest CPD Activities within our Obstetric Shared Care Program, ensuring you stay informed and engaged with timely updates.
Fertility Matters: ART, Birth Rates, and Endocrine Approaches in Primary Care
Wednesday 18th September, 6.30pm – 9.15pm
Complimentary Dinner and free parking onsite
The Agenda
- Fertility Counts – How can ART impact the trend of declining birth rates in SA
- Clinical Approach to Infertility in Primary Care – Endocrine focus
Featuring Captivating Speakers
- Professor Neil Johnson
- Associate Professor Vasant Shenoy
Join Us
The Adelaide Pavilion Corner
Peacock Road & South Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
For more information:
Leanne March
Ph: 0418 803 844
leanne.march@gpex.com.au
These are RACGP-approved CPD activities under the RACGP CPD Program
The GP Obstetric Shared Care Program has a key role in advocacy, policy and promoting high quality, safe and innovative practice. There is no more effective environment for learning than the in-person exchange of information and there will be ample opportunity to ask questions.
Mental health care in the perinatal period
Studies in Australia and around the world have found that up to one in ten women experience depression during pregnancy and one in seven women in the year following birth. Anxiety disorders are also prevalent (around one in five women in both the antenatal and postnatal periods) and comorbidity with depression is high. Severe mental illnesses – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder – are much less common than depression and anxiety disorders. All of these conditions have the potential to have a negative impact on outcomes for the mother and infant and for the family more broadly. This is more likely to occur when a mental health condition is combined with serious or multiple adverse psychosocial circumstances.
Discover the Latest on Mental Health Care in Pregnancy: Join Us at the Clinical Refresher on Saturday, August 31st, 2024.
Immunisation
Pertussis cases on the rise
There have been 305 pertussis (whooping cough) cases reported as of 27 July 2024 compared to 39 during the same period in 2023.
Whooping cough is particularly serious in young babies under 6 months and the best way to protect young babies is to vaccinate mothers during pregnancy. This will provide infants with a level of protection until they can receive their first vaccine against whooping cough at 6 weeks of age.
Whooping cough vaccine is recommended from 20 weeks of pregnancy (ideally between 20-32 weeks). Consider also encouraging people over 50 (as they are also vulnerable) and/or anyone planning to visit a newborn to make sure they are up to date with their whooping cough vaccination.
Sexual health
There has been a dramatic increase in syphilis cases in South Australia over the past few years.
If left untreated, syphilis can give rise to serious health problems, including neurological, cardiovascular and skeletal damage.
And while some people may experience symptoms, syphilis commonly goes unnoticed, with diagnosis only coming through screening.
It is recommended that health professionals include syphilis in all routine sexual health screening.
Syphilis testing is also recommended routinely in all pregnancies at the first antenatal check at 26-28 weeks, and at 36 weeks or at time of any preterm birth.Syphilis can be transmitted to a baby during pregnancy leading to miscarriage, premature birth, and infant death. Babies born with congenital syphilis can have significant, lifelong health problems.
Discover the Latest on Syphilis in Pregnancy: Join Us at the Clinical Refresher on Saturday, August 31st, 2024.
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Contraception
InfocUS is a comprehensive and interactive program for health care professionals with a special interest in contraception.
Participants will gain in-depth knowledge, counselling tips and practical hands-on experience inserting and removing intrauterine devices on a high-fidelity pelvic simulator. The program aims to build confidence and procedural competence prior to patient insertion to enable and expand timely access to long-acting contraceptives for more women in Australia.
Anyone interested in this program please contact the Bayer Customer Engagement Partner:
Rebecca McCard 0414 317 018 rebecca.mccard@bayer.com