Clinical Software Resources

Nepean Blue Mountains PHN offers a variety of useful clinical software resources, including Medical Director and Best Practice templates, how to guides, and links to IM-related sites.

If you have templates that could be included on this page, please forward your request to your General Practice Support Officer.

Clinical Software Templates

The following resources should be downloaded using the "Download & Install Instructions" further down this page.

ACAT (Aged Care Assessment Team)

• ACAT Referral - Medical Director (rtf, 133kb)
• ACAT Referral - Best Practice (rtf, 134kb)

Antenatal Shared Care

• Antenatal Shared Care - Best Practice (rtf, 13.2kb)
• Antenatal Shared Care - Medical Director (rtf. 14.7kb)

COPD

• COPD Action Plan (pdf, 844kb)
• COPD Action Plan - Medical Director (rtf, 5.7MB)
• COPD Action Plan - Best Practice (rtf, 5.7MB)

Chronic Disease Management

By clicking on the below links for Chronic Disease Management you will be taken to the South Western Sydney PHN website.

• GPMP 721
• GPMP Review 732
• TCA 723
• GPMP 721 and TCA 723
• Referral for Individual Allied Health Services
• Referral for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Follow-up Allied Health Services

Community Health 

• Community Health Referral - Best Practice (rtf. 24kb)
• Community Health Referral - MD (rtf, 24kb)
• Connecting Care Referral - Best Practice (rtf, 25kb)
• Connecting Care Referral - MD (rtf, 26kb)

More Community Health Resources

Diabetes

• Diabetes 721-723 (rtf, 46kb)
• Australian Diabetes Risk Test (rtf, 39kb)
• Diabetes Annual Cycle of Care - BP (rtf, 50kb)
• Diabetes Annual Cycle of Care - MD (rtf, 50kb)
• Diabetes GPMP & TCA - BP (rtf, 75kb)
• Diabetes ACC (rtf, 20kb)
• Diabetes Annual Cycle of Care Plan (rtf, 46kb)
• Diabetes GPMP 721 - MD (rtf, 53kb)
• Diabetes GPMP & TCA - MD (rtf, 43kb)
• Diabetes Type 2 Risk Evaluation (rtf, 28kb)
• Diabetes Type 2 AHS (rtf, 8kb)

Exercise Physiology

• ESSA General Practitioner Referral Form (pdf, 140kb)
• ESSA General Practitioner Referral Forms for Medical Director and Best Practice are available to download from the ESSA website.

NSW Ambulance

• Authorised Care Plans (pdf, 396kb)
• NSW Ambulance Adult Palliative Care Plan (rtf, 147kb)
• NSW Ambulance Authorised Care Plan (rtf, 92.5kb)
• NSW Ambulance Paediatric Palliative Care Plan (rtf, 153kb)

Smoking Cessation

CINSW recently released an online referral form for NSW Quitline. The NSW Quitline provides feedback to health professionals on their patients contact with the service upon consent from the patient.

Download & install instructions

Downloading from this site

1. Right click on link and select "Save Target As..."
2. Select a location on hard drive (which you can find later, such as the desktop) and save.

Medical Director - import instructions

1. Open Medical Director and then LetterWriter
2. File Menu > Select Modify Template > Select Blank Template
3. File > Select Import - locate downloaded file and click on Open
4. File > Select Save As Template - type in apporpriate name and click on Save

IMPORTANT: DO NOT open templates except when importing into clinical software as it may corrupt the format of the document causing you to re-download the template.

Best Practice - import instructions

1. Open a New Letter and from the Templates menu select Import templates
2. Locate downloaded file and open
3. From File menu select Save As. Type in appropriate Template name and click on Save.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT open templates except when importing into clinical software as it may corrupt the format of the document causing you to re-download the template.

Useful links for templates

• National Heart Foundation
• The Department of Health MBS Primary Care Items
• The Department of Health Medical Health Assessments Resource Kits
• The Department of Health Medical Chronic Disease Management Medicare items

Clinical Software Support

• Best Practice online or phone 07 4155 8888
• Medical Director online or phone 1300 788 802