February 2026 Webinar Recap: Driving Quality Improvement in General Practice

Presented by Kari Lusk from Montier Health, the February 2026 webinar focused on practical ways practices can use their data to identify patients at risk of cardiovascular disease and take structured action using the purpose-built PHASES CVD Quality Improvement Toolkit.

The session highlighted how quality improvement can help practices move from identifying risk to embedding prevention into routine workflows. With the right tools and processes in place, practice teams can more easily identify patients who may benefit from review, support timely recall and follow-up, and strengthen preventive care over time.

Learning objectives:

  • Use practice data to identify patients at increased cardiovascular disease risk
  • Apply the PHASES CVD Quality Improvement Toolkit
  • Implement recall and follow up processes for high-risk patients
  • Embed quality improvement into routine practice workflow

The webinar formed part of the PHASES statewide webinar series supporting primary care teams across Queensland to strengthen early identification and prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Click here if you missed the live session and would like to watch the recording, You can also self-claim RACGP and ACRRM CPD points after viewing.

Funded by the Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowship, the PHASES Linkage project connects general practice cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk data with hospitalisation and mortality data. This study aims to better understand how CVD risk impacts hospitalisation rates and assess the accuracy of the new CVD risk prediction equation in identifying high-risk individuals within Queensland’s population. 

The project will: 

  • Estimate the number of heart attacks and strokes that could be prevented with improved treatment for high CVD risk. 
  • Identify gaps in CVD prevention to inform future care strategies. 

Running in parallel with the PHASES project, PHASES Linkage highlights the power of data-driven insights to improve cardiovascular outcomes and reduce hospitalisations.