Welcome to the 7th cohort series for Project ECHO- Pandemic response network and this week the LGAs across the West Vic PHN hit an incredible milestone of 88.5% first dose vaccine coverage by Monday....5% ahead of the state average. Providing us with the confidence that we can peak into the post 80% double dose crystal ball in our region and perhaps the post 90% coverage ball too.In this series over the coming months, we’ll be having conversations about the work of bringing our communities across the line in regards to achieving ambitious vaccine milestones, we’ll be exploring the changes in public health social distancing and Trace, test, isolate and quarantine strategies as we move further along in the national plan and outbreak and we’ll be rapidly moving into COVID positive care education as our role in primary care and we’ll shifts to monitoring COVID Care in the community.As always, we’ll be inviting participants to bring cases for discussion, share issues, challenges, struggles and pain points in the spirit of action-oriented peer learning.So thanks again for joining us in this community of practice.Today our content pushes will bring a number of updates from 3 of our key themes and we’ll be asking our experts the following questions:1)Vaccine rollout-milestones and mandates – what is the GP role?2)Public Health restrictions and measures – what needs to change in the primary care workplace to prepare for increased community transmission?3)Outbreak response & Trace, test, isolate and quarantine strategy (felt by primary care as the dreaded furlough)- How will the DoH and PHUs work with primary care to minimize the impact of furloughing and enable sustainable service delivery?And in our regular GP case discussion we’ll be bringing up the topic of COVID care in the community and asking the questions: What will our role in primary care be across the regions? * How will we be working with the public health units, ED and infectious diseases teams? * What do we need to be thinking about at this time in preparation?*

Speakers:Ms Rowena Clift, West Vic PHN CEO* Update on COVID positive pathways * EOI primary care

Dr Kate Graham, GP and Clinical Editor Health Pathways and COVID Clinical Advisor Western Victoria PHN•Vaccination milestones and mandates, Infection prevention and control guidance for primary careDr Bianca Forrester, GP Clinical advisor workforce development Western Vic PHN* Vaccination coverage data

Professor Rosemary Aldrich, Medical Director, Grampians Public Health Unit•GPHU update, Vaccination progress and gaps, what to expect in COVID careDr Gerard Ingham, GP Springs Medical Centre, Daylesford* How are we going to manage COVID in the community?

Ms Linda Govan, Regional Senior Manager, Western Victoria PHN•PHN updateRecorded on Thursday 7th October 2021Western Victoria PHN Project ECHO HubCOVID-19 ECHO TeamBianca Forrester (Facilitator)Jemma Missbach, Katrina Pilbeam, (ECHO Co-ordinators)Katrina Martin, Fiona Quigley, Workforce ManagementJayde Bueller, audio production