COVID-19 response update for primary care – 08 June 2023
This webinar on 08 June is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.
Resources and information
- ATAGI advice on the preferential use of bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for primary vaccination of people aged 12 years or older – 30 May 2023
- 2023-24 Federal Budget measures
- Statement on 60-day medicine dispensing
- Minister for Health and Aged Care – Cheaper medicines to ease cost of living announcement – 26 April 2023
- MBS Online - Assessment for a COVID-19 oral anti-viral medication
- MBS Online - Telehealth MBS eligibility for COVID-19 positive patients
- MBS Online - COVID-19 high risk group temporary exemption from established relationship requirement
- MBS Online - MBS Telehealth Services from 1 July 2022)
- National Statement of Expectations on COVID-19 Management in Aged Care Settings
- 2023 Influenza Campaign
- 2023 Influenza Campaign – Campaign materials
- Minister for Health and Aged Care – Long Covid announcement – 24 April 2023
- New COVID-19 and Influenza Immunisation History Statement
- Top up your COVID-19 protection
- Minister for Health and Aged Care – press conference – 30 March 2023
- Expanded access to subsidised oral antiviral Paxlovid and other COVID-19 supports
- Changes to MBS items during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response - Health professionals - Services Australia
- 2023 National Immunisation Program influenza vaccination – Early advice for vaccination providers – 1 March 23
- ATAGI recommendations on use of the Moderna bivalent (Original/Omicron BA.4/5) COVID-19 vaccine
- Updated eligibility for COVID-19 oral treatments
- COVID-19 Oral treatments fact sheet
- National COVID-19 Health Management Plan for 2023
- Access to PCR testing from 1 January 2023
- Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) statements
- COVID-19 vaccination - Easy Vaccine Access call back service brochure (other languages)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) case numbers and statistics | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
- PBS Website – www.pbs.gov.au
- Fact sheet - Changes to PBS eligibility for COVID-19 treatments - Information for prescribers and pharmacists
- National Statement of Expectations on COVID-19 Management in Aged Care Settings
Videos
- COVID-19 | Hear from Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Michael Kidd on why it’s important to wear masks to help slow down the spread of COVID-19 in the... | By Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care | Facebook
- COVID-19 – hear from Dr Lucas de Toca on COVID safe behaviours
- wearing a mask
- encouraging people to practice behaviours to protect themselves and others from COVID-19
- the COVID-19 oral treatments