4d. Nurse-Led Care Planning & Case Conferencing – Scaling GP Impact Without Burnout
Tracks
Track 4
| Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
| 14:20 - 15:15 |
| Eureka room 3 |
Details
This session supports practice owners seeking financially sustainable, innovative models that align with RACGP priorities for workforce sustainability and business viability.
Learning Outcomes: • Implement nurse-led care planning and case conferencing to enhance patient engagement and reduce GP workload. • Apply MBS funding models (including 739 + 10997) to increase practice revenue while ensuring compliance. • Redesign team workflows to empower nurses in structured, billable chronic disease management. • Develop a financial strategy to double billable income per hour compared to bulk-billed standard GP consults
Learning Outcomes: • Implement nurse-led care planning and case conferencing to enhance patient engagement and reduce GP workload. • Apply MBS funding models (including 739 + 10997) to increase practice revenue while ensuring compliance. • Redesign team workflows to empower nurses in structured, billable chronic disease management. • Develop a financial strategy to double billable income per hour compared to bulk-billed standard GP consults
Speaker
Dr Alecia Macrow
GP and Owner
Thrive Family Practice
4f. Nurse-Led Care Planning & Case Conferencing – Scaling GP Impact Without Burnout
Biography
Dr Alecia Macrow BMBS FRACGP
Founder, Thrive Family Practice | RACGP SA Faculty Council Member
Dr Alecia Macrow is a specialist GP and founder of Thrive Family Practice, an award-winning, GP-owned clinic in Glenelg South with a strong focus on interdisciplinary, lifestyle-based care. With a background in science communication and a special interest in chronic disease, endometriosis and pelvic pain, Alecia is passionate about reimagining primary care to be proactive, team-based and patient-centred.
She leads one of Australia’s federally funded Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinics, pioneering innovative approaches such as nurse-led care planning, case conferencing, and shared medical appointments to improve outcomes in complex care. Alecia also sits on the RACGP SA Faculty Council and is actively involved in advocacy and policy around sustainable, high-quality models of general practice.
