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29/10/06
A psychogeriatrician service is provided by Dr Mark Scurrah through the Richmond Valley Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) more... |
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29/10/06 Michelle Bouquet
The Government recently announced a range of new MBS items under its initiative Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psycholo more... |
29/08/06 Michelle Bouquet
Michelle Bouquet
The division has received numerous enquiries regarding the billing requirements for the 3 Step Menta more... |
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20/04/06 Michelle Bouquet
GPs referring to division psychologists
GPs registered with the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care Program have been more... |
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19/02/06 Lindy Swain
Major depression occurs in about 5% of patients attending general practice while minor depression is thought to be two t more... |
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19/02/06 Michelle Bouquet
by Michelle Bouquet
Registered GPs may now refer patients with mental health disorders to two division employed psych more... |
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23/08/05 Dr Angelo Vergona
High demand for Mental Health Access Line (MHAL)
As you know the MHAL has been running across the area since November more... |
20/04/05 
(l-r) Ballina GPs Jerome Mellor and Philip Lai during a lunch meeting with Guy Dayhew and Anne Maclean to discuss the pr more... |
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20/04/05 Sue Nelson
Depression is the most common mental disorder, responsible for half of all suicides in Australia. The prescribing of ant more... |
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15/12/04 Dr Angelo Vergona
As previously advised in GPSpeak and various forums, we introduced the mental health access line (MHAL) phone number in more... |
14/12/04 Robin Osborne
At the handover of $2,000 worth of psychiatry texts for Lismore Base Hospital library were (l-r) psychiatric registrar D more... |
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20/08/04
A project that will allow GPs to refer patients suffering from depression for counselling has recently been approved for more... |
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20/06/04 Dr Mark Scurrah
The complexities of mental health problems, their impact on families, coomorbidities and the chronicity of some mental h more... |
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20/02/04 Dr Mark Scurrah
The key is that anxiety is a normal response to a stressor. If the anxiety symptom /level is judged to be beyond a norma more... |
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20/12/03
Physical health and mental health co-morbidity
The link between mental health and physical illness is gaining increased more... |
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20/12/03
Angelo Vergona is the NRAHS’s new area director of psychiatry. Previously, Dr Vergona has been a staff specialist at St more... |
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17/10/03 
Dr Angela Bettess
GPs and mental health workers came together at the community mental health more... |
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17/10/03
Ten NRAHS mental health workers recently undertook the NSW Institute of Psychiatry accredited persons training program. more... |
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20/08/03 Louise Du Chesne
Asking a patient if they are the son or daughter of a Vietnam veteran is probably not a question GPs commonly ask, howev more... |
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20/08/03
The division is participating in Teams of Two, a statewide program for GPs and mental health professionals. It is the re more... |
20/08/03 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
Angela Dalu (left) with some fellow Growers at a Grow meeting in the region.
It seems crazy that the fi more... |
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20/06/03 Atosha Clancy
Are you registered for level one Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care? Then let us know, and we can assist you in provi more... |
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17/04/03 Atosha Clancy
Training for GPs
This has been a major focus of this project during the last few months, during the roll out of the Be more... |
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17/04/03 Atosha Clancy
Training for GPs
This has been a major focus of this project during the last few months, during the roll out of the Be more... |
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13/03/03
Local GPs have welcomed the news that discrimination against mental health consumers seeking life and income protection more... |
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19/02/03 Jonathan Munro
The Older Person’s Telemedicine Outreach Service (OPPTOS) will see the establishment of a specialist health care telehea more... |
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17/12/02
The Northern Rivers Fellowship (NRF) Rehabilitation Services and the NRAHS have been participating in a joint project to more... |
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17/12/02 Atosha Clancy
Implementation of the Commonwealth Government’s initiative Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care has directed the work o more... |
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16/10/02 Dr Andrew Binns
With a State election looming, now is the time to publicise again the gross inadequacies of funding for our regional men more... |
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16/10/02
With the opening of the 25-bed mental health in-patient unit in Tweed Heads Hospital in July, the mental health team in more... |
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07/10/02 Dr Andrew Binns
This Mental Health Week, perhaps we should consider the inadequacies of government funding to our regional mental health more... |
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20/06/02 Gareth Daniels
This initiative comprises five main segments: {list:
Education and training for GPs,
Incentive payments – three step m more... |
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19/04/02 Kathryn Pigott
The NRDGP and the Far North Coast Dementia Outreach Service are working in partnership to assist GPs in the assessment a more... |
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23/03/02
I had not spent any significant time in an acute psychiatric hospital since I was a student. Memories of that are vague more... |
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23/03/02
In examining the health of populations, statisticians and epidemiologists have traditionally focused on mortality and mo more... |
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23/03/02 Tim Armstrong
Mental health continues to be a major health issue in Australia. Significant increases in funding to encourage GPs’ invo more... |
18/12/01 
The Northern Rivers Division of General Practice’s mental health project officer, Tim Armstrong, will leave for East Tim more... |
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01/12/01
Is work getting to you? Fear not, several strategies can be used to reduce stress at work, says Tim Armstrong, mental he more... |
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20/11/01
Mental health continues to be a major health issue in Australia. Significant increases in funding to encourage GPs’ invo more... |
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20/07/01
While it is widely recognised that disproportionate numbers of indigenous Australians spend time in the prison system, i more... |
20/07/01 
It would come as no surprise to doctors and allied health workers in the Northern Rivers to discover that the level of f more... |
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20/05/01
What is the basic difference between illness and disease? Have we as doctors ever stopped to think about this? How many more... |
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01/12/00
Sexual offences elicit strong emotional responses from health professionals, victims, police services and the community more... |
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01/12/00
Published in GPSpeak, February 1998
Three years ago Kyogle was like many an Australian country town as seen through more... |
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01/12/00
It is estimated that a GP in the UK with a patient list of 6000 will encounter one patient each year who will commit sui more... |
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01/12/99
Being truly well requires not only physical health, but mental health too, and promoting this starts from infancy. That’ more... |
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01/12/99
Chris McKenzie has worked in Ballina for the last fifteen years as a GP and VMO at the hospital. He has seen many change more... |
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01/12/99
Psychiatrist Harry Freeman, director of the Community Mental Health Team at the Richmond Clinic, raises some serious con more... |
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01/12/99
Dementia affects about one in 10 people older than 65 and one in five people older than 80 years of age.
A national s more... |
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01/12/99
In this article, psychiatrist Harry Freeman looks at the new generation of anti-depressant drugs, selective seretonin re more... |
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01/12/99
Since the mid 1950s there has been a consistent change in the assessment and treatment of mental illness and the way in more... |
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01/12/99
Australia has one of the highest rates of youth suicide in the world. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest suicid more... |
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01/12/99
While there has been a longstanding distinction drawn between the concepts of anxiety and depression, is it possible to more... |
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01/12/99
Mental health and behavioural problems affect adolescents disproportionately and account for more than half the current more... |
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01/12/99
The American poet and philosopher Henry Thoreau once stated that many men “lead lives of quiet desperation”. This may be more... |
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01/12/99
It's Friday afternoon in a busy general practice, often a time when challenging emotional and social problems present, a more... |
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01/12/99
Around one-third of people presenting to GPs suffer a diagnosable mental disorder. A further one-third experience signif more... |
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01/12/99
In his article in GPSpeak (Oct 2000), Tim Armstrong sought to identify issues in understanding and treating sex offender more... |
