TEMPLATES AND USER GUIDES

The North East Valley Division of General Practice has kindly given permission for PivotWest to link to their IM/IT Resources.   This site is maintained on a regular basis and provides GPs/Practices wtih up to date resources including:

• Progress Notes Summary Sheets
• Adding your own Leaflets into MD
• Going Paperless
• Diabetes Annual Cycle of Care
• Pathology Management in Medical Director
• Pathology and Recall Self-Audit Tool
• Recall Management
• Using HMR (DMMR) Templates in MD

To access the above and other resources click here

• A straight forward, easy to use, electronic template for GP referrals.
• A standardised mechanism for referral from General Practice to state funded health providers.
• Preferred format for GP referrals to primary care services funded by the Department of Human Services (DHS).This includes: Community health, Home & Community Care, Aged Care Assessment and so on.
• Different to a routine referral letter, but transfer of relevant information is easy 
• Use this simple template as a replacement for the multitude of service specific referral forms.
• The VSRF is also suitable for referrals to hospital outpatient services where a service specific template does not already exist.
• VSRF is now GP friendly, it is significantly shorter; all duplication of information has been removed as has bureaucratic language.

To access the VSR template for your clinical software and importing instructions go to www.gpdv.com.au  and click on Victoria Statewide Referral Form.  This site will be updated regularly to keep you informed of when the VSR will be included in which clinical software.