Month: May 2021

Ms Emma Driver1, Ms Claire Costello2, Ms Michelle Stute1, Ms Tania Hobson2, Ms Kristine Kelly2, Mr Jason  Warnock1 1Metro North Health, Brisbane, Australia, 2Children’s Health Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Background: Metro North Health (MNH) and Children’s Health Queensland (CHQ) are dedicated...

Mrs Michelle Elwell1, Mr Darren Deves1 1Australian Indigenous Healthinfonet, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, Australia The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (HealthInfoNet) aims to contribute to ‘closing the gap’ in health between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians by...

Mrs Joanna Stockings1 1Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, Australia The prevalence of malnutrition in patients receiving Haemodialysis is between 28-54%, and is strongly associated with mortality. The KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline recommends the regular use of the 7-point Subjective Global...

Mr David McCallum1 1Chief Allied Health Office, Western Australian Department of Health, Perth, Australia The Chief Allied Health Office (CAHO) provides strategic advice for 26 professions in the Western Australian (WA) allied health (AH) workforce.  The CAHO has a broad...

Dr Lil Vrkevski1,2, Ms Hannah Gutmann1, Dr Matthew Modini1,2, Professor Andrew Baillie3,4, Ms Miranda Shaw1, Ms Sarah Whitney1,4, Mr Vincent Craw 1rpavirtual, SLHD, Camperdown, 2050, 2Psychology Department, Mental Health Service, SLHD, Concord, 2137, 3Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 4Allied Health, SLHD,...

Ms Deepa Ramakrishnan1 1Forensic Hospital, Malabar, Australia People living with psychotic illnesses often experience distortions in their perceptions of sensory information and also experience hyper or hypo sensitivity to particular sensations.  Sensory modulation exploration targeting the vestibular, proprioception, tactile, auditory...

Mr Chi Cheng1 1Queensland Health, Ipswich, Australia Navigating Happiness is a 4-week practical skill group designed to help mental health service consumers, or almost anyone for that matter, as in introduction to how to live a more rich, full, and...

Mrs Melanie Haley1, Ms Kimberley Williams1, Mr Matthew Carson1, Mr Grant Scroggie2 1Eastern Health, Box Hill, Australia, 2St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy, Australia Aim: To assess the feasibility of utilising a hospital network online platform to implement review of clinician scope...

Mr Adrian Paton1, Mrs  Farah Shams 1Icare, Sydney, Australia, 2QBE, Sydney, Australia In 2019, 20 Youth Justice employees at Frank Baxter Centre suffered physical and psychological injuries from an inmate riot. This terrible flash point gave experts from icare, QBE...

Lila P. Vrklevski1,2, Kathy Eljiz2, David Greenfield2 1Department of Psychology, Concord Centre for Mental Health, SLHD-MHS, 2Australian Institute of Health Service Management, School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania Background: Multi-graded positions on community mental health teams have led...