Episodes
Join our usual co-hosts Dr Ashlea Broomfield, A/Prof Charlotte Hespe and Dr Rebekah Hoffman. Today Ash will be discussing how she found her niche in general practice and is following her passion in a slightly different direction.
Published 04/18/22
Published 04/18/22
Dr Emily Amos joins hosts Dr Ashlea Broomfield, A/Prof Charlotte Hespe and Dr Rebekah Hoffman. Emily is a GP, meditation and yoga teacher and joins this episode to discuss her journey on setting up her own business. Resources: Dr Emily Amos Mindfulness and Self Care - https://www.dremilyamos.com/ Insight Timer - https://insighttimer.com/en-au The healthy mind platter by Dr Dan Siegel - https://drdansiegel.com/healthy-mind-platter/ Meditation made easy by Lorin Roche Stolen Focus, Why you...
Published 03/30/22
Dr Mary Beth Macisaac joins Ashlea and Charlotte in this episode to discuss her work with the Royal Flying Doctors Service as well as her recent research that was funded by the Avant Foundation around quality and quality improvement in general Resources: HealthPathways - https://sydney.communityhealthpathways.org/LoginFiles/Logon.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f Amaze - https://www.amaze.org.au/ 4 doors model of change – Jason Clarke -...
Published 01/18/22
Dr Ai-Vee Chua joins Rebekah and Charlotte in this episode to discuss leadership during COVID in the rural and remote areas of Australia. Resources: Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions (HANDI) guidelines https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/handi GPSA educational resources to assist supervisors in their role https://gpsupervisorsaustralia.org.au/educational-resources/ HealthPathways https://sydney.communityhealthpathways.org/LoginFiles/Logon.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f
Published 10/21/21
Dr Johanna Lynch joins this episode to discuss with Ash and Charlotte her research and book titled ‘A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety’. Resources: ‘A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing Building Sense of Safety book https://www.drjohannalynch.com/ Sense of safety during covid by Dr Johanna Lynch - https://www.racgp.org.au/FSDEDEV/media/documents/RACGP/Coronavirus/Calm-During-Covid-Johanna-Lynch.pdf Narrative as Evidence and Evidence as Narrative: why we need...
Published 08/17/21
Dr Pamela Douglas, GP, researcher and founder of Possums joins hosts Ash and Charlotte to talk about values based actions from a medical and personal perspective and how that plays out in work and life. Resources Possums: possumsonline.com/ Pre-emptive Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical Foundations and Clinical Translation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6877903/ and https://possumsonline.com/pre-emptive-intervention-autism-spectrum-disorder Safe exercise at...
Published 07/29/21
A/Prof Charlotte Hespe sits in the interviewee chair in this episode to discuss her PhD in how quality improvement processes can be implemented in the real world of general practice with usual host Dr Rebekah Hoffman and special co-host Dr Jess Tidemann. Resources: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-8jTTIsJ7Q https://youtu.be/8gm-lNpzU4g https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html Doctors control...
Published 07/19/21
Dr Kean Seng Lim joins Just a GP hosts Charlotte, Ash and Bek to discuss value versus volume and the asymmetry of benefit. Resource: Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) Nutrition: https://www.pennutrition.com/index.aspx NSW Health value based healthcare: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/value/pages/default.aspx Moving medicine: https://australia.movingmedicine.ac.uk/
Published 07/06/21
Just a GP hosts Bek and Charlotte are joined by Dr Martina Gleeson who joins this episode to discuss her leadership in transgender health. Resources: ASCIA Guidelines - Acute management of anaphylaxis https://www.allergy.org.au/hp/papers/acute-management-of-anaphylaxis-guidelines TransHub https://www.transhub.org.au/
Published 06/21/21
Dr Louise Delaney joins Just a GP hosts, Charlotte, Ashlea and Bek to discuss HealthPathways; how she got there, her leadership in HealthPathways and what it has meant to make these decisions.
Published 05/18/21
Just a GP hosts Ash and Charlotte are joined by Dr Michael Clements, the RACGP Rural Faculty Chair who joins this episode to discuss what he is doing in that space and his vision for the faculty. Resources Practice to Practice: https://www.racgp.org.au/the-racgp/faculties/rural/practice-to-practice HOPE IT Platform: https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/statewide-programs/prms/hope-platform Blue Knot Foundation: https://www.blueknot.org.au/
Published 04/08/21
Join the conversation as Dr Annabel Kain shares the plans for her practice with Charlotte. Annabel is an owner of an inner city Sydney practice that has around 6,000 active patients, 5 full time equivalent doctors, 1 full time equivalent practice nurse, 2 full time equivalent receptionists and a practice manager.
Published 03/22/21
Kean-Seng Lim joins Charlotte to discuss the ideas for how COVID vaccination clinics will run in his practice. Kean-Seng works in a general practice in Mount Druitt with around 3,500 active patents and 4 full time equivalent doctors.
Published 03/17/21
In this next episode of COVID vaccination clinics Dr Colin Pearce joins Charlotte to discuss the plans for his practice. Colin works in a rather large general practice in Newcastle which is owned by IPN. They own 3 practices which cover a mixed demographic; these practices are in Charlestown, Redhead and Windale. Over the 3 sites there are around 27,000 active patients, 24 doctors, 10 nurses and 15 reception as well as management staff. Please note: since the recording took place on 4...
Published 03/12/21
One of our usual Just a GP hosts, Dr Bek Hoffman joins this episode to discuss with Charlotte her PhD research on how we juggle the role of being a GP along with other priorities that we all have. Resources: Junior doctors, burnout and wellbeing: Understanding the experience of burnout in general practice registrars and hospital equivalents https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2018/august/junior-doctors-burnout-and-wellbeing Parkrun https://www.parkrun.com.au/
Published 03/09/21
In this episode of Just a GP Ash, Bek and Charlotte are joined by 2020 GP of the year, Dr Duncan Mackinnon. Duncan joins this episode to discuss his leadership in 2020 which led him to be awarded GP of the year award.
Published 03/04/21
In the third instalment of COVID vaccination clinics Just a GP co-host and Practice Owner Dr Rebekah Hoffman shares the current plans for her practice. Bek is a practice owner of a general practice in the Sutherland Shire with 10,000 active patients, 12 GPs, 3 nurses, 3 reception staff and allied health staff on site.
Published 03/01/21
Dr Andrew Bonney joins A/Prof Charlotte Hespe to share the planning thoughts of his practice for the COVID-19 vaccine clinic. Andrew is 1 of 3 practice owners of a general practice in a town of around 3,000 people on the South Coast of NSW. The practice has 2 registrars, 2 practice nurses and 3 reception staff.
Published 02/25/21
Just a GP is running a short, brief series with GPs willing to share their planning thoughts around COVID-19 vaccine clinics. In this first episode we are joined by Dr Michelle Redford. Michelle works in a suburban general practice in Newcastle with approximately 12,000 active patients, 16 doctors and around 3.5 practice nurses.
Published 02/24/21
In this episode of Just a GP Ash, Bek and Charlotte are joined by Dr Pamela Douglas, who is not just a GP, but also the founder of Possums and a researcher. Pam joins this episode to talk about finding a passion in medicine, research and development and what it means to create a paradigm shift within the medical field and bringing our own mental health in relation to that. Resources Possums: https://possumsonline.com/ PIPPS: https://possumsonline.com/pipps NDC accreditation:...
Published 09/20/20
Dr Todd Cameron joins Ash, Bek and Charlotte to talk about starting or buying into your own general practice. In this episode we discuss the layers of business ownership and how you can enhance financial health through patient avatars.
Published 08/25/20
Professor Danielle Mazza joins Bek and Charlotte to discuss her leadership in improving women’s sexual health and her research in health services and how we can deliver better care for women in the areas of preconception care, contraception and abortion. Resources MS2Step: https://www.ms2step.com.au/ SPHERE CRE: https://www.spherecre.org/ Black dog Institute: https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/
Published 07/29/20
The GP Living Library has been created to broaden the range of GPs who are asked to represent our healthcare community, enabling deeper understandings and greater diversity in health events Australia-wide. Dr Louise Stone joins this episode to discuss the GP Living Library: why it was created, what it can be used for and how you can access and/or become a ‘Human Book’. Resources GP Living Library: https://www.gplivinglibrary.org/ Doctors for Doctors: https://www.drs4drs.com.au/ Facebook for...
Published 07/24/20
Ash and Charlotte do a deep dive with Chris around burnout on resilience vs the system, exploring niche creative interests and does money really matter? Resources: Link to Australian store version of King Tides Curse https://www.amazon.com.au/Tides-Curse-Knights-Noble-Metal-ebook/dp/B089STF8Q1 ACT Mindfully https://www.actmindfully.com.au/
Published 07/16/20