Events
30 July & 10 September 2024
Are you a GP supervisor? Register for an upcoming 2-part webinar series on supporting your registrar to provide smoking cessation care.
Hosted and facilitated by General Practice Supervision Australia, these webinars will focus on teaching your registrar motivational interviewing, with tips from Quit Centre's Behavioural Scientist Assoc Professor Cathy Segan and GP Dr Eileen Cole.
Webinar details:
Dates: 30 July & 10 September, 2024
Times: 8pm-9pm
Where: Online (Zoom)
Register: https://community.gpsa.org.au/page/webinars
1-4 August 2024
Quit Centre health professional representatives will be at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, supporting CSANZ 2024; the 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand and 48th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research (Australasian Section).
Event details
Dates: 1-4 August, 2024
Where: Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
Register: csanzasm.com
25-27 July 2024
Learn about how Quitline helps your patients during the Quit Centre Spotlight Presentation at Essential Health Summit. Leaders from across primary health care will come together in this summit, which incorporates The Festival of Nursing, The Lifestyle Medicine conference and the inaugural Primary Health Care Congress. Hosted by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) and Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM).
Event details
Dates: 25-27 July, 2024
Where: Adelaide Convention Centre
Register: www.essentialhealthsummit.com/
18 June 2024
Join presenters Dr Eileen Cole and Pharmacist Jennifer Kyi from Quit Centre, as well as Prof Megan Passey from The Daffodil Centre, as Safer Care Victoria presents a clinical conversation to explore smoking cessation supports in pregnancy.
Discussion will cover effective screening and assessment of nicotine dependence, the appropriate prescription of nicotine replacement therapy, provision of initial counselling which is culturally safe for Indigenous and/or Torres Strait women, and an understanding of QUIT services.
Event details
Date: Tuesday 18 June, 2024, 2-3pm.
Venue: Online.
27 February 2024
As highly trusted health professionals and medicines experts, pharmacists are well-positioned to educate the community around evidence-based approaches for smoking cessation and managing nicotine dependence, such as nicotine replacement therapy and behavioural support. It’s essential that pharmacists are across the regulatory changes relating to sourcing and dispensing of vapes as this evolves across 2024.
Join experts as this webinar delves into what the regulatory changes are and what they mean for pharmacists.
Presenters:
Associate Professor Fei Sim - National President, PSA
Professor Robyn Langham - Chief Medical Adviser, TGA
Jennifer Kyi – Pharmacist Adviser, Quit Centre, Cancer Council Victoria
Dr Eileen Cole - GP Lead, Quit Centre, Cancer Council Victoria.
Webinar details:
Date: Tuesday 27 February, 2024
Where: Online (Zoom).
View the webinar:
For pharmacists: Clearing the Air- Navigating Vaping Reforms with Confidence
Information on the SAS and AP Online System
SAS and AP Online System information from the TGA
Video demonstration on using the SAS and AP Prescriber Portal
Video demonstration on the SAS and AP Submission Validation Tool
22 February 2024
Significant changes are occurring to the regulation of vapes across 2024. This webinar is an important opportunity for medical and nurse practitioners to hear from experts from the TGA, RACGP and Quit Centre about the regulatory reforms and what these changes mean. Hear practical information on prescribing therapeutic vapes, and strategies for supporting smoking and vaping cessation.
Presenters:
Professor Robyn Langham, Chief Medical Adviser, TGA - Overview of regulatory changes
Professor Nick Zwar, Chair of the RACGP's Expert Advisory Group on Smoking Cessation - Prescribing therapeutic vapes: why, when and how
Dr Eileen Cole, GP Lead, Quit Centre, Cancer Council Victoria - Support for health professionals providing smoking and vaping cessation care.
Webinar details:
Thursday 22 February 2024, online.
View the webinar slides and presentation:
Prescribing therapeutic vapes- overview of the regulatory changes
29 April 2024
Webinars with specific stakeholder groups to highlight progress made on finalisation of updates to TGO 110 and the MDSO for vaping devices.
View the presentation slides.
The recording of the TGA Vaping reforms webinar - overview of regulatory changes held on 17 January 2024 is now available, along with a downloadable copy of the presentation slides.
Access the TGA Vaping reforms webinarThis webinar hosted by RACGP unpacked the implications of the National Tobacco Strategy for GPs, and considers how GPs can engage people who smoke in cessation care, with a focus on using NRT.
1 Hour CPD Approved Education Activity.
Access the New National Tobacco Strategy: How NRT can help webinarPresenters:
Professor Nick Zwar (Chair, RACGP Smoking Cessation Guidelines Expert Advisory Group)
Emma Dean (Pharmacist, Health System Reform Manager, Quit)
Last updated: 24 July 2024