Practice Managers

Ballarat & District Division of General Practice would like to invite all members of the Practice Team involved in any aspect of Practice Management within General Practice to the network meetings held bi-monthly on a Tuesday or Thursday lunch time from 12:30 - 2:00 PM. These meetings are informal to encourage discussion, with an education component. Enquiries or suggestions for topics please contact Michelle MacGillivray. Check the events calendar for the next network meeting.

This page contains resources for those involved in the management of the General Practice and minutes of recent network meetings.

Safety and Security in General Practice New!

The practice Manager/Practice Team Network conducted an education session on Safety and Security in General Practice in June of 2008.

The following resources could be useful to General Practice when reviewing systems, policies and procedures around safety and security in general practice.

  1. Dandenong Casey Division of General Practice have developed a safety and security kit for general practice. Also, their generic policy and procedure manual has been revised in 2008 – have you had a fresh look at it? Take note of section 3 – Occupational Health and Safety.
  2. Ballarat Worksafe Office, 8C 333 Gillies St Wendouree, ph 5338 4444, fax 5338 4499
  3. Crime Prevention Officer is Senior Constable Peter Riley (Ballarat Divisional Headquarters), phone 5332 9400
  4. RACGP's GP safety resources
  5. AMA's position statement on personal safety and privacy for doctors

PIPs & SIPs

Details on the different incentive payments available to practices are listed in this PIP table (Oct 08). You may also find DoHA's presentation on Practice Incentives Program (PDF) useful.

Resources for GPs, Practice Managers and Practice Nurses on the Medicare Benefit Schedule and EPC

Two SIP resources

Wages & Conditions New!

GPDV Primary Care Update

Nursing Recruitment and Orientation

A Nursing Recruitment and Orientation Resource is available on our Workforce page.

List of Specialists

St John of God Hospital Ballarat would like to help Practice Managers obtain a frequent, accurate database of specialists from this area. It will give Practice Managers the flexibility to design their own list to suit their needs. The database can be obtained electronically by contacting enable javascript to see this email address (how?).

Resources