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GPDV provides representatives to external bodies in order to:

• Provide high quality representation of General Practice and divisions of General Practice to appropriate committees (including advisory committees, reference groups, working parties, management committees) and consultations.
• Provide input to other organisations regarding the views, capacities, priorities and needs of Victorian divisions of General Practice and their members, and in turn receive information and input about the policies and priorities of other stakeholders in primary health care.
• Build up GPs' skills and experience in high-level representation, negotiation and policy development, and thus to provide both a form of professional development and a potential component of a career path for Victorian members of divisions of GP.

GPDV will provide representatives for committees

• Which are auspiced by a statewide body, or which have a statewide brief. (ADGP deals with the national level; divisions deal with the local level.)
• Which have a genuine need for GP/divisional input
• Whose aims and activities are in line with GPDV's strategic goals.

GP Representatives

GPDV provides GPs as representatives on ongoing committees where: The committee requires expert input that only a GP will be able to provide The committee requires a practising GP to put forward the views and explain the needs of GPs regarding workforce or policy proposals The committee is able to appropriately remunerate the GP for their time, or in special cases, negotiate alternative arrangements with GPDV Representative Committee Terry Ahern DHS Advisory Committee on Access to Elective Surgery Terry Ahern VACGP Health and Aged Care Interface Sub-Committee Ralph Audehm DHS Diabetes Expert Advisory Group Alison Baliey GPDV Mental Health Reference Group Wendy Bissinger DHS Immunisation Advisory Committee Wendy Bissinger DHS GP Engagement Working Group Jenny Brown Working Party for Accreditation and Reaccreditation at The Royal Women's Hospital, Mercy Maternity Hospital and Sunshine Hospital Geoffrey Campbell DHS GP Engagment Working Group Shane Conway DVA Local Medical Officers Advisory Committee Nick Demediuk DHS Victorian Advisory Committee on Infection Control Kaye Ferguson GPDV Mental Health Reference Group Stephen Flew VACGP Health and Aged Care Interface Sub-Committee Ian Grant DHS Palliative Care Committee Timothy Gray Monash University Research into the Perception of Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Consumers with regard to the Prescribing of Generic Medicines Jill Grogan PCP Service Coordination Reference Group Jill Grogan DHS GP Engagement Working Group Phillip Hammond GPDV Mental Health Reference Group Phillip Harris Monash University Research into the Perception of Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Consumers with regard to the Prescribing of Generic Medicines Andrew Howard DHS GP Engagement Working Group John Jagoda VIVAIDS Methadone and Other Pharmacotherapies Advocacy and Complaints Resolution Service Consumer Liaison Committee John Jagoda Temazepam Injecting Professional Reference Group Jeff Jenkinson VACGP/RWAV Rural Sub-committee Richard Milner ASHM/Alfred Hospital GP Hep C & HIV Training Program Steering Committee and Hep C Clinical Sub-Committe David Monash GPDV Mental Health Reference Group Larry Osborne ASHM/Alfred Hospital GP Hep C & HIV Training Program Steering Committee and Hep C Clinical Sub-Committe Jenny Ouliaris GPDV Mental Health Reference Group David Pearce GPDV Mental Health Reference Group Nathan Pinskier HARP -Technology Working Party Alan Randell Victorian Dementia Advisory Committee

GPDV Board Representatives

If the GPDV board considers a request for representation to be of sufficient strategic importance, a board member may be appointed as representative. Representative Committee Nola Maxfield Victorian Advisory Committee on General Practice John McEncroe Victorian Advisory Committee on General Practice John McEncroe HARP Reference Group John Meaney Victorian Medical Advisory Service John Meaney GPDV Mental Health Reference Group

GPDV Staff Representatives

GPDV provides staff members as representatives if: The requesting organisation specifically asks that a staff member be appointed The work of the committee does not require the presence of a GP to provide expert knowledge or for strategic reasons (or if the staff member has been requested in addition to the GP) GPDV has a staff member whose experience and area of expertise is appropriate for the committee GPDV determines that it is an appropriate use of resources to devote a staff member's time to the committee Representative Committee Belinda Caldwell DHS Immunisation Advisory Committee Anne Diamond Primary Care Mental Health Training Project Anne Diamond Mental Health Workforce Study Project Group Lenora Lippmann Refugee Health Initiatives Project Reference Group Lenora Lippmann DHS Advisory Committee on the Home and Community Care Program Bill Newton Board of the Australian Institute for Primary Care Bill Newton Pre-Diabetes Early Intervention Project Bill Newton Quality Improvement & Community Services Accreditation Council Bill Newton DHS Primary Mental Health and Early Intervention Initiative Bill Newton DHS Community Health Policy Framework Reference Group Bill Newton Victorian Advanced Training Program for General Practice (VATGP) Advisory Group Bill Newton Victorian PHC RED Partnership Reference Group Bill Newton Victorian PHC RED Statewide Committee Helen Threlfall ADGP Quality Framework For Divisions Taskforce Sonya Tremellen DHS Immunisation Advisory Committee Sonya Tremellen Reference Group for the Evaluation and Support of the Local Diabetes Service Development Program and accompanying Diabetes Workforce Development Program Susan Webster Victorian Advisory Committee on Koori Health: Indigenous Health Workforce Issues Sub-Committee

Contact Penny Handley for more information or to provide feedback. Email p.handley@gpdv.com.au or phone 03 9341 5216.