Nurse Practitioners in general practice

Nurse Practitioners Meredith Prestwood and Kerrie Duggan were invited by the President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), Professor Claire Jackson to attend the launch of the Collaborative Care Agreement Launch at College Headquarters in Melbourne on June 16^th 2011.

Meredith is a nurse practitioner at Newstead Medical Centre in Launceston and Kerrie is employed by Dr. Adriane Hebblewhite at Huon Valley Health Centre in Huonville.

Meredith and Kerrie would like to thank the stakeholder groups, especially the RACGP and the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) for their assistance in setting up these collaborative care agreement documents. While these documents are useful guidelines for nurse practitioners and general practitioners in primary health care, they are not the only pathway of establishing collaboration.

Further information regarding collaboration agreements between nurse practitioners and the medical profession is available online at www.medicare.gov.au

Pictured from L to R
Meredith Prestwood, Professor Claire Jackson (Chair of Council), Professor Nigel Stocks and Kerrie Duggan.