Listen to General Practitioner, Dr Caran Cheung, and Staff Specialist, Simone Strasser, talk about the important role of GPs in Hepatitis B vaccination, testing, treatment, and monitoring. This podcast discusses how to effectively engage with communities at high-risk of Hepatitis B, and the appropriate care pathway. The podcast identifies who is at-risk and how to respond in primary care settings, including diagnosis, treatment, and routine monitoring. Early diagnosis plays a vital role in reducing the burden of Hepatitis B, and GPs are encouraged to undertake opportunistic Hepatitis B testing with at-risk communities.
Resources and services mentioned in this podcast and useful links:
• Commonwealth and NSW-funded free Hepatitis B Vaccines: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/gp_catchup.aspx
• ASHM ‘How to become and s100 prescriber’: https://ashm.org.au/hiv/hiv-prescriber-programs/how-to-become-hiv-prescriber/
• HBV s100 prescriber course in the tools: https://www.ashm.org.au/hbv/hbv-prescriber-programs/how-to-become-a-hepatitis-b-s100-prescriber/
• Healthpathways: https://cesphn.org.au/general-practice/healthpathways
• Liver Foundation: https://liver.org.au/
• Gastroenterological Society of Australia: https://www.gesa.org.au/
• ASHM Training - Culturally responsive care and Hepatitis B: https://ashm.org.au/training_cat/culturally-responsive-care-and-hepatitis-b-nsw/
Tools:
• CESPHN templates for health professionals: https://cesphn.org.au/general-practice/practice-support-and-development/templates
• ASHM Decision-making in Hepatitis B chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ashm.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ASHM_Decision-Making-in-Hepatitis-B-Toolkit-Update_Nov.pdf
• ASHM Reach-B Form: https://reach-b.ashm.org.au/further-information-on-reach-b/ This form is designed for s100 prescribers, not for community members or general clinicians. If you are not a prescriber and have a question for ASHM, please contact HBVPrescriber@ashm.org.au
• Free, interactive and user-friendly drug interaction chart, University of Liverpool: https://hepatology-druginteractions.org/
