It wouldn't be a COVID-era conference without technical difficulties, but I am finally online at #RANZCP2021, hearing from @jasonleitch on experiences from Scotland
Really interesting presentation from @jasonleitch on continence bundles in care homes and importance of person-centred care. Many downstream effects #RANZCP2021
Hearing about NHS Near Me from @jasonleitch. Obviously a huge thing during #COVID19. Consulting with patients and practitioners about what they wanted in this new era. Patients: a receptionist to help them navigate; practitioners: a mix of live and telehealth patients #RANZCP2021
Loving this story from @jasonleitch about the postie in his van on a break getting the results of his colonoscopy via telehealth. Lights up a dart, then apologising 'sorry I forgot I was at the doctor' #RANZCP2021
Scotland's #COVID19 strategy: reducing viral harms while not exacerbating other harms, from @jasonleitch, who says he has been one of the faces of the pandemic in his country #RANZCP2021
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Greatly looking forward to the next two sessions at #RANZCP2021 on Maori and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health, feat Helen Milroy (WA Australian of the Year and Australia's first-ever Indigenous MD), Allister Bush, Mark Lawrence & Wiremu NiaNia
First up Palyku woman Helen Milroy, paying respects to elders. Will be speaking about complexities in Aboriginal MH #RANZCP2021
How do cultural perspectives cross over with illness experiences? Milroy sharing some examples #RANZCP2021
Our first keynote at #RANZCP2021 today will be from Carole Warshaw, director of the US National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
Warshaw talking emergence of trauma theory and how powerful it was for survivors - DV not a psychiatric condition but has many MH and substance use related effects. Reframing #RANZCP2021
Coercive control at the heart of DV, physical violence may be a threat to enforce but not always most prominent aspect, says Warshaw. Like being in a hostage situation, aided and abetted by systems - legal, migration and medical #RANZCP2021
Final session today is on the interplay of DV, substance use, trauma & MH. Chaired by @DrWilliams, with @ManjulaOConnor, Sathya Rao & Carole Warshaw; @croakeynews is at the veterans and first responders MH stream #RANZCP2021
First up is @ManjulaOConnor, on gender, social power & restrictive norms, leading to disparities and inequities #RANZCP2021
Gender is a system defining men and women in opposition and distributing power accordingly, privileging masculinity says O'Connor #RANZCP2021
This afternoon I will be tweeting from #RANZCP2021 sessions on mental health workforce, and DV, trauma & substance use. John Allan getting us underway now. @croakeynews will be covering sessions on ADHD, and the MH of veterans and first responders
The psychiatry workforce is ageing, and about 50:50 public vs private says Allan. Stressors include too much work to do with not enough time to do it #ranzcp2021
Just 6 psychiatrists in Australia service very remote regions. SIX! Versus 2,671 in the cities. Significant rural maldistribution #RANZCP2021
Back on deck at #RANZCP2021, tweeting from a session on the @ozprodcom inquiry into mental health. Discussions chaired by Harvey Whiteford from @QCMHR, who was associate commissioner. @CroakeyNews will be covering the session on aged care
Intros to Whiteford. First psychiatrist ever appointed to the @WorldBank, first advisory psychiatrist to the federal government. Will be talking to us about the @ozprodcom inquiry and last week's federal budget #RANZCP2021
Inquiry spanned 18 months from Oct 2018 to June last year, with report released in Nov. Was the biggest @ozprodcom inquiry ever, 1300 submissions from a spectrum of stakeholders, says Whiteford #RANZCP2021