The new 'Strengthening Cancer Care: Psychosocial Support Module (PSM)' on gplearning helps identify and provide support for adults living with, and affected by cancer. While the psychosocial care of patients with severe, disabling or life-threatening conditions can appear overwhelming, health professionals can provide sound, practical strategies based on current evidence to help reduce patient and family distress during and after diagnosis and treatment of cancer. It draws heavily upon the clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of adults with cancer to ensure that the best available evidence is used as a basis for meeting the psychosocial and other support needs of people with cancer.

It has been developed as part of the Strengthening Cancer Care Initiative funded by Cancer Australia and developed by a consortium consisting of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA), the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC), The Cancer Council of Australia (TCCA), RACGP and the Centre for Innovation in Professional Health Education and Research at The University of Sydney (CIPHER).

'Putting Prevention into Practice' is based on the RACGP’s ‘Putting Prevention into Practice (The green book)’. It provides an interactive and practical approach to implementing prevention strategies in your setting. Many of the strategies can also be applied to general clinical management.

It is applicable to all in the primary care team and will take around 2 hours to complete.

Prevention activities included in this activity: a critical appraisal of the Practice Prevention Inventory and Plan (PPIP) for your practice setting and case study learnings highlighting particular aspects of prevention.

RACGP QA&CPD Category 2 points have been approved for completion of this activity. Other health professionals may print out the certificate provided at the end of this activity via the ‘my Progress’ screen for evidence of completion.

This activity was developed through an educational grant from the Australian Better Health Initiative: A joint Australian, State and Territory government initiative.

'Robert – GP Case' presents a mental health challenge, which unfolds through a case study involving two consultations with Robert. A brief preliminary quiz raises awareness of some of the issues to be explored in the case. A menu allows you to access specific sections as desired. The resources and references may be accessed at any time via the 'resources' button at the top left hand corner of the screen.

‘Robert - GP case’ contains audio and video files which may be slow to download for some users. Text transcripts are provided for all audio files.

It is anticipated that the activity will take around 30 minutes, but more time may be required if links and resources are accessed at the time of working through the case.