COVID-19 management guidelines for primary care providers

National Clinical Evidence Taskforce resources 

• Risk stratification guidelines – To support GPs to assess the severity of COVID symptoms and determine a suitable treatment pathway for:
  • adults
  • children and adolescents
• Pulse oximeter guidelines:
  • adults
  • children and adolescents

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

• Home-Care Guidelines for Patients with COVID-19 - This gives information on providing home-based care to COVID-19 patients who are not deemed to be medium or high risk for severe disease or hospitalisation. This includes patients in a private residential home (including public or community housing), in residential aged care facilities and supported accommodation.
• Managing COVID-19 at home with assistance from your general practice
• Caring for adult patients with post-COVID-19 conditions (Long COVID).

Furloughing and IPC Guidelines

• CDNA National guidelines for public health units
• Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare (2021)
• The Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG) guidance on the use of PPE for health workers in the context of COVID-19
• The World Health Organization (WHO) PPE guidelines.

Personal protective equipment (PPE)

• Personal protective equipment (PPE) for the health workforce during COVID-19
• Eligibility for Living with COVID PPE bundle
• PPE and pulse oximeter ordering guide for GP, ACCHS and GPRCs
• Guidance on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers in the context of COVID-19
• PPE Donning and Doffing in Primary Care
• PPE Donning and Doffing in Residential Aged Care.

Health resources

• Living with COVID: supporting and strengthening primary care – information for general practitioners (fact sheet) - this facts heet provides information on measures introduced to support GPs safely and confidently manage and monitor COVID-positive patients with mild to moderate symptoms in the community.
• What to expect when you have COVID-19 (fact sheet) – this resource is informed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ (RACGP) guidance, Managing COVID-19 at home with assistance from your general practice:
  • plain English
  • translated versions
• Resources and Information for Living with COVID.