News and progress

Roths Corner Medical Centre in Tumbarumba has demonstrated that nurse-led clinics can be successfully implemented in any community when they're designed to meet local needs and make the most of existing general practice capabilities.

When TMC Medical looked closely at the care needs of their patients living in local Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), a problem became clear: residents were missing out on timely, holistic care.

Living Well Your Way rolled out a Summer Strategy program to General Practice across the Murrumbidgee.

The Living Well, Your Way team have had some of their innovative projects mentioned in the Australian College of Nursing's 'The Hive' magazine, following on from their outstanding presentations at the National Nursing Forum in Canberra earlier this year.

Members of the Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network team proudly represented our region at the 2025 APNA Festival of Nursing in Brisbane, an international celebration hosted by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA), the peak body for nurses working in primary health care.

Recently, Living Well, Your Way Community Pharmacist Kym Ramsey presented at the PSA25 conference in Sydney, representing the LWYW team and program pharmacists.

The Griffith Respiratory Public Outpatient Clinic has held 15 clinics over the last 12 months with a further ten clinics scheduled to the end of 2025 supporting respiratory patients with complexities, comorbidities, frequent ED presentations or admissions to hospital.

This year, we are trialling an expansion of the successful Outreach Heart Failure Diagnostic Clinics, into Outreach Respiratory Clinics across the Murrumbidgee Local Health District.

General practices from across the Murrumbidgee region have commenced participating in this year's Living Well, Your Way Winter Strategy program. This year, 36 practices are participating, the biggest cohort in its seven-year history.

The Living Well, Your Way Pharmacy Screening Program has been extended until 30 September 2025 with 24 pharmacies continuing to screen patients. Patients identified as at risk of COPD or CHF are referred to their GP for further assessment.

The Living Well, Your Way Summer Strategy is a Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network led initiative, held between October and May 2024-25. The initiative successfully introduced a new model of care, nurse-led clinics, at 17 general practices across the region.