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  • Up-to-date clinical information
  • Trends in the medical community
  • Surveillance data
  • Platform to promote primary care events
  • Review of community programs / services to benefit your patients
Past IssueTopics
November, 2023
  • In This Issue - November 2023
  • UPDATE: PCAL Recruitment is Open for 2024!
  • UPDATE: 2023 - 2024 Record Review Has Begun
  • UPDATE: Change in Niagara Region's Homeless Status Form
  • UPDATE: STOP on the Net Program
  • UPDATE: New Options for Comprehensive Cognitive Assessment - Niagara's Primary Care Memory Clinics
  • REVIEW: Respiratory Surveillance
  • REVIEW: Reminders on Respiratory Illness Prevention and Control
  • REVIEW: Key Research Findings on Cannabis and Mental Health
  • Free Online Suicide Prevention Modules for Healthcare Professionals
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
October, 2023
  • In This Issue - October 2023
  • UPDATE: PCAL Recruitment is Open for 2024!
  • UPDATE: 2023 / 2024 Influenza Immunization Program
  • UPDATE: Respiratory Surveillance
  • UPDATE: Health Canada Safety Review: Domperidone and Risk of Psychiatric Withdrawal Events
  • REVIEW: Antiviral Medication for the 2023-2024 Respiratory Season
  • REVIEW: Centre de santé Communautaire - Caring for my COPD - Welland Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
  • REVIEW: Opioid and Safer Supply Resources
  • REVIEW: National Breastfeeding Week
  • FREE TRAINING: Breastfeeding "Making a Difference" Level 2 - Last Chance to Register!
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
September, 2023
  • In This Issue - August 2023
  • UPDATE: Resources For Patients Who Have Attempted Suicide
  • UPDATE: Public Health and Emergency Services Open House and Alcohol CME
  • UPDATE: Distribution of Rapid Antigen Tests in Ontario under the Provincial Antigen Screening Program
  • UPDATE: Keeping Your Patients Healthy this Respiratory Season
  • REVIEW: Rabies Risk and Reporting
  • REVIEW: Healthy Babies Healthy Children
  • REVIEW: National Infection Control Week
  • Coming October 16 - 20 
  • FREE TRAINING: Breastfeeding "Making a Difference" Level 2
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
September, 2023
  • In This Issue - SPECIAL EDITION 
  • DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS TOMORROW!
  • CME OPPORTUNITY: Niagara Region Public Health Rounds - Focus on Alcohol and Health + Public Health Open House
August, 2023
  • In This Issue - August 2023
  • UPDATE: Smoking Referral Form for Primary Care
  • UPDATE: Niagara Priority Profiles
  • UPDATE: Referring Patients to Public Health for MPox Vaccination
  • UPDATE: Bring the Early Words Program to Your Practice
  • REVIEW: World Suicide Prevention Day
  • REVIEW: Birth Control and Education Opportunities
  • CME OPPORTUNITY: Niagara Region Public Health Rounds - Focus on Alcohol and Health + Public Health Open House
  • PRACTITIONER'S TOWN HALL: Palliative Care
  • FREE TRAINING: Breastfeeding "Making a Difference" Level 2
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
August, 2023
  • In This Issue - SPECIAL EDITION
  • CME OPPORTUNITY: Niagara Region Public Health Rounds - Focus on Alcohol and Health + Public Health Open House
July, 2023
  • In This Issue - July 2023
  • UPDATE: Updated Tuberculosis Resources for Health Care Providers Available Now
  • REVIEW: Tips on Keeping your Vaccine Refrigerator Secure
  • REVIEW: World Hepatitis Day
  • REVIEW: CBT Postpartum Depression Program for New Parents
  • FREE TRAINING: Breastfeeding “Making a Difference” Level 2
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
June, 2023
  • In This Issue - May 2023
  • UPDATE: Primary Care Engagement Advisor
  • UPDATE: Detection of Ceftriaxone Non-Susceptible Neisseria Gonorrhoeae in Ontario
  • UPDATE: When You Receive Exposed Vaccine as Part of Your Order
  • UPDATE: Extended Eligibility for Herpes Zoster (Shingles) Vaccine
  • REVIEW: Benefits of Long Acting Injectable (LAI) Antipsychotics for Schizophrenia
  • REVIEW: Food-Borne Illness Investigations
  • REVIEW: Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • FREE WEBINAR: How to Talk to Clients About Their Mental Health - The Right Way
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
May, 2023
  • In This Issue - May 2023
  • UPDATE: Missed Newborn Hearing Screen
  • UPDATE: Pneumococcal Vaccine Guidance
  • UPDATE: Ontario HIV Testing Guidelines
  • UPDATE: Updated Lyme Disease Risk Areas Map
  • REVIEW: Returning Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
  • REVIEW: Be Safe - Mental Health Service Navigation App
  • REVIEW: Nurse Family Partnership
  • SURVEY: Innovations in Preventive Primary Care for Young Children during COVID-19
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
April, 2023
  • In This Issue - April 2023
  • UPDATE: Record Review - Order of Suspensions
  • UPDATE: Closed COVID-19 Vaccination Services
  • UPDATE: Celebrating Doctors and Nurses
  • REVIEW: Compassionate Programs for Birth Control and HPV Vaccine
  • REVIEW: Rabies Risk & Reporting within the Niagara Region
  • REVIEW: Mental Health Week 2023 
  • REVIEW: Final Respiratory Surveillance Update of 2022-2023 Season
  • FREE WEBINAR: TEACH Educational Rounds - When Contact Saves Lives: Strategies for Suicide Prevention in Primary Care 
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
March, 2023
  • In This Issue - March 2023
  • UPDATE: Incorporate Fluoride Varnish into Your Practice
  • UPDATE: Quit Smoking Support from Local Pharmacies
  • UPDATE: Resumed Availability of Erythromycin Ophthalmic Ointment
  • UPDATE: MPox Update from MOH
  • REVIEW: Respiratory Surveillance
  • Free Training: Breastfeeding - Making a Difference (Level 1)
  • Free Webinar: RNAO Mental Health and Addiction Webinar: Harm reduction in acute care: Let's talk! 
  • FREE Online Course – Using the CARD SystemTM to improve the vaccine experience for kids and adolescents
  • MEDICAL ADVISORIES AND MEMOS
February, 2023
  • In This Issue - February 2023
  • UPDATE: Measles Preparedness
  • UPDATE: Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health
  • UPDATE: Vaccine Preventable Disease Program
  • UPDATE: SmartStart Hub Services
  • REVIEW: World TB Day 2023 – “YES! We Can End TB”
  • REVIEW: Respiratory Surveillance
  • Free Training: Clinician-Patient Communication to Enhance Health Outcomes
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