Upcoming webinar: coordinated heart failure care in general practice

Heart failure continues to drive significant illness, hospitalisation and premature death across Australia, highlighting the need for a primary care focus on systematic recall, coordinated monitoring and follow-up workflows that fit naturally within general practice.

EMPHN is collaborating with special guest speakers to present an upcoming webinar. The webinar is designed to help support general practice teams strengthen early post-discharge heart failure care. With expert insights, evidence updates, and practical strategies for follow-up, medication management, monitoring, self-management, and escalation, this webinar is a must‑attend for general practice teams.

You’ll hear from expert primary care health professionals:

• Cardiologist
  Dr Vicki Pandeli on why primary care–led optimisation is expected, supported and essential between hospital visits.
• General practitioner
  Assoc Prof Ralph Audehm on translating guidelines into real‑world workflows, recall systems and team roles.
• Consultant pharmacist
  Mr Brian Meier on medicines optimisation, deprescribing and supporting adherence and patient understanding.
• Cardiac clinical nurse specialist
  Ms Kirsten Sandstrom on nurse‑led monitoring, education, vaccination and coordination that sustain long‑term heart failure care.

This webinar is suitable for general practitioners, practice nurses, practice managers, pharmacists and other multidisciplinary primary care clinicians.

CPD learning outcomes (accreditation pending):

1. Explain why early post-discharge intervention matters in heart failure and identify the highest-value actions for general practice in the first weeks after discharge.
2. Outline a coordinated, team-based approach to early post-discharge heart failure care, including how GPs work with practice nurses, pharmacists and specialist services.
3. Prioritise and sequence evidence-informed management decisions in the community (medicines optimisation and monitoring, self-management support, and escalation/referral) using insights from cardiology, specialist GP, heart failure nursing and pharmacist perspectives.
4. Develop a simple practice implementation plan for early post-discharge heart failure care, including one measurable action to implement within two to four weeks and a plan to review its impact.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore coordinated multidisciplinary approaches, evidence-informed community management decisions, and simple, measurable plans for practice implementation.