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Newsletters provide information on recent changes to immigration health policy and processing which affect panel members.

Issue Contents

 

Global Health - September 2011 (125KB PDF file)

  • eHealth – Where can I get more information?
  • Continuing professional development
  • Aged Visitor Health Check
  • Routine Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) testing not needed
  • Pathology test results
  • Contacting Global Health
  • Update – where to send Australian visa medicals
  • Age thresholds
  • Notification of leave and locum arrangements

Global Health - June 2011 (147KB PDF file)

  • Client Identity arrangements for the new Electronic processes (eHealth)
  • eHealth – where can I get more information
  • Panel locums
  • Change to contact details
  • Where to send Australian visa medicals
  • Update on TB testing
Global Health – December 2010 (137KB PDF file)
  • What's new for eHealth?
  • Global Health Onsite Audit Program update
  • Where to send Australian visa medicals
  • Changes to Health Strategies mailbox
Global Health – June 2010 (145KB PDF file)
  • Aged Visitor Health Check
  • Breast Examination
  • Grading A or B for Radiologists
  • Drug Susceptibility Testing
  • Doctors, Dentists, Nurses and Paramedics
  • Medibank Health Solutions
  • Onsite Audit Program Update

Health Operations Centre—October 2009 (100KB PDF file)

eHealth for paper visa applicants (185KB PDF file)

eHealth for eVisa applicants (770KB PDF file)

  • Welcome note
  • What is eHealth?
  • eHealth for paper visa applicants
  • eHealth for all eVisa applicants
  • Aged Visitor Health Check
  • eHealth improvements
Health Operations Centre – August 2009 (140KB PDF file)
  • Blood tests for healthcare workers
  • eHealth Update
  • HIV counselling
  • Asymptomatic applicants – TB
  • Onsite audit program
  • International Panel Physicians Association
Health Operations Centre - April 2009 (140KB PDF file)

Health Matrix – March 2009 (55KB PDF file)
  • Revised forms and Panel Instructions
  • Period of Transition
  • Using Adobe Reference Tools
  • Online Health (eHealth) Identity Flag
  • Changes to the Form 26
  • Changes to the Instructions
  • Health Matrix Information
Health Operations Centre – February 2009 (150KB PDF file)
  • Panel Doctors Gateway launch
  • New forms and new instructions on the way
  • Online Health (eHealth) expansion
  • Reporting Cardiomegaly
  • Identifying and Recording an Applicants visa subclass number
  • When to send Medical Results to HOC for processing
Health Operations Centre – October 2008 (150KB PDF file)
  • Intergovernmental Immigration Health Working Group (IIHWG) Conference
  • What is 'Front-end Loading'?
  • Onsite Audit Program
  • Female chaperones
  • Reminder: Forwarding medicals
  • MOC Conference
  • Panel Consolidation
Health Operations Centre – July 2008 (145KB PDF file)
  • Introducing the Health Operations Centre (HOC)
  • Why include your clinic name?
  • Panel Instructions changes
  • A Message from the Chief Medical Officer of the Commonwealth
  • Changes to Forms 26 and 160

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Further information

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