Do you treat women who experience heavy menstrual bleeding? Are you across the latest treatments available, and what is now considered good practice?

The first Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation identified significant variation in the rate of hysterectomy and endometrial ablation, surgical procedures to treat heavy menstrual bleeding. This prompted the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to develop the Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard

This event will take you through the new standard, and help you better understand how you can treat and engage with women who have this common condition.

Who should attend?

• doctors
• family planning services
• GPs
• gynaecologists/obstetricians
• nurses
• radiologists
• surgeons
• women’s health services

Why should you attend?

• Understand the detail of the standard, including the range of evidence-based pharmaceutical treatments and ‘minimally invasive’ gynaecological procedures that are available.
• Hear from a consumer who experiences heavy menstrual bleeding, and learn how to engage women in shared decision-making.
• Listen to case studies, and directly from practitioners who are delivering high-quality care.
• Identify areas for improvement in your own practice, and how to implement the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Case for Improvement.
• An application for RACGP Category 2 points has been submitted and an outcome is pending.

Program

Session 1: What is the Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard and why do we need it?

9.30-9.35am - Welcome - Ann-Maree Keenan, Deputy CEO/Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, Safer Care Victoria

9.35-9.45am - Well-informed wellbeing: why everyone benefits from an evidence-based health approach - Janet Hailes Michelmore AO, Executive Director, Jean Hailes for Women’s Healtj

9.45-10.00am - Improving the management of heavy menstrual bleeding in Australia - Professor Anne Duggan, Atlas Advisory Group Chair; Senior Medical Advisor, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

10.00-10.15am - The consumer experience - Hayley Harrison, Consumer representative HMB Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Group

10.15-10.30am - Variation – the Victorian view - Jonathan Prescott, Manager, Clinical Safety & Monitoring, Safer Care Victoria

10.30-10.55am - The Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard - Dr Louise Sterling, GP Obstetrician, Gladstone Street Medical Clinic Warragul. Member of HMB Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Group

10.55-11.20am - Morning tea

Session 2: Delivering appropriate care across the health system

11.20-11.35am - A regional women’s health service’s approach to HMB - Louise Holland, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Bendigo Community Health Services

11.35-11.50am - Best practice management of HMB in Primary Care using HealthPathways - Bianca Bell, Director, Integrated Care, NWMPHN

11.50-12.05pm - GP IUD training model - Dr Lou Sanderson, GP and Medical Educator, Wathaurong Aboriginal Health Service (delivered by Dr Kathy McNamee, Medical Director, FPV)

12.05-12.20pm - Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: A Monash Health Perspective - Professor Beverley Vollenhoven, Head of Gynaecology, Monash Health. Deputy Head, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University

12.20-12.50pm - Q&A with speakers - MC Anne Duggan

12.50-1.35pm - Lunch

Session 3: Education and training

1.35-2.15pm - Panel discussion and Q&A – MC Professor Anne Duggan

Session 4: Clinical case studies and where to next

2.15-2.55pm - Clinical case studies panel discussion and Q&A – MC Dr Louise Sterling

2.55-3.00pm - Closing remarks - Robyn Hudson, Director, Clinicians as Partners, Safer Care Victoria

Can’t make it?

Webcasting is available - register here http://bit.ly/HMBRSVP

If you are unable to attend and would like further information about the clinical care standard, register your interest here – http://bit.ly/InfoCCS

A program will be available closer to the date.

A joint Safer Care Victoria and Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care event.

For further information contact: elif.cetiner@safercare.vic.gov.au.