Online Workshop - Lifting the lid on participation: conducting effective audits to improve National Bowel Cancer Screening Program uptake

General practitioners, practice staff and Aboriginal healthcare workers play a vital role in promoting the importance of early detection of bowel cancer by encouraging and endorsing participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. 

This practical workshop explores bowel cancer screening in people who are hesitant to screen. You will engage in case discussions to explore the barriers to screening and some of the enablers that you or a practice team can implement to encourage screening within your practice. 

We have also designed activities to get your team started on an audit for bowel cancer screening within your clinic and identify practice improvements. 

Planning an audit is often the most challenging step. We break it down and provide tools to get you started to ensure success. Mini audit templates will be provided and explored in more detail.

Let’s work together to help increase bowel cancer screening in our communities.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Outcome 1: Identify practices that support engaging patients in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

• Outcome 2: Determine system improvements within practices to improve patient engagement with the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

• Outcome 3: Identify and apply Practitioner and Practice Toolkit Resources that support mini-audit and/or plan, do, study, act (PDSA) activities

Presenter Information

Dr. Alireza Ahmadvand, MD PHD FRACGP

Dr. Alireza Ahmadvand, MD, PhD, FRACGP, is a leading General Practitioner, Associate Professor, and medical researcher specializing in primary care, epidemiology, and digital health. He earned his MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and later obtained a PhD in Pharmacy at Queensland University of Technology.

Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at Griffith University’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, focusing on medical education and research. Clinically, he works as a Senior Medical Officer and GP with Special Interest in Gastroenterology at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, and as a GP at Our GP Complex Spring Hill. His research spans digital health, generative AI, and pharmacoepidemiology, employing advanced analytical methods to improve healthcare innovation, with a strong emphasis on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

Professor Robert Bryant MBBS FRACP MScR (Oxon) PhD 

Professor Rob Bryant is a highly regarded expert in gastroenterology. He is the Head of the Department of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and a Clinical Professor at the University of Adelaide. He completed a prestigious Fellowship in Gastroenterology at Oxford University in England and has extensive clinical, academic, and leadership experience in bowel health. Rob’s expertise, credibility, and established presence in the field make him a strong advocate for NBCSP education. 

As a gastroenterologist, Rob works in both private and public practice and is passionate about the early bowel cancer detection. In 2018, he co-founded Biome Bank—a world-leading research institution making waves in the gut health industry. In his spare time, Rob has also published over eighty research papers focused on microbiome-based and dietary therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.  

CPD Information

CPD Approved (RACGP Activity No. 1340909), Accredited and Endorsed for:

Educational activities: 0.5 hours

Reviewing performance: 0.5 hours

Measuring outcomes:  0.5 hours

Optional self-logged CPD hours for:

Reviewing performance:  peer case discussion activity

Measuring outcomes:  mini audit activity