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NEWS Bulletin January - May 2021 Issue
Inauguration of the new
CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
PODIATRY SERVICES
in B’KARA
T he Podiatry Centre of Excellence, inaugurated by the
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health, Mr Chris
Fearne, in the presence of the Hon. Alex Muscat, Parliamentary
Secretary for Citizenship and Communities, on the 21st of April,
is another successful milestone in our commitment to excellence. This is the third Centre of Excellence within the
Primary HealthCare, with the other two being the Eye Screening Centre and the Speech and Language
Pathology Centre.
Over the past 12 months we continued to invest in our infrastructure to boost our approach towards exceeding
our clients’ and staff needs. More than €220,000 were invested in the overall refurbishment and modernisation
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Greetings
schedules, safe environment, effective work-from-
home logistics, and secured great organisational
success.
I am proud of you all as a united team, and on
Roseanne Camilleri behalf of the Primary HealthCare’s Senior
Chief Executive Officer Management Team, I would like to thank you for
your valued efforts working diligently towards
making this crisis a learning experience for us all,
During these past months we have consistently kept
and an opportunity to improve and excel for the
focus on our determined resolve to provide top
benefit of all, across the Maltese Islands.
notch services to our esteemed clientele’, as we
faced the considerable national and global The contents of this Bulletin are a manifestation of
challenges brought about, primarily, by the our effective input.
continued evolvement of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please accept my heartfelt gratitude for setting a
Throughout this period, we have, in perfect example of dedication, professionalism, and
concert, adapted to work exigencies, where responsibility!
balancing life and work have become even more
fundamental. We have sustained flexible working
Ms Roseanne Camilleri was one of the panel members
during the NCPE International Women's Day Conference
which took place on the 2nd of March 2021.
Editorial
Dorothy Daniel
Scicluna Corso
Welcome to the first issue of the News Bulletin for This news bulletin will give you a good snapshot of
2021. During the past couple of months, whilst we the achievements we made from the beginning of
continued to give our outmost in managing the this year. Any feedback/queries may be forwarded
pandemic, we also focused ng on our ongoing to: dorothy.scicluna@gov.mt.
projects, especially the modernisation of our
Keep safe!
infrastructure and the expansion of the services we
offer.
Primary HealthCare (Head Office). 7, Harper Lane, Floriana
Telephone: (+356) 21231231
www.primaryhealthcare.gov.mt
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The Test tal-Fehim tal-Malti (TFM) was officially launched within the
Speech and Language Centre in December 2020. This is the first
clinical test for assessing verbal comprehension in the Maltese
language, entirely developed locally to serve the form of the
Maltese language. It targets the assessment of children between the
ages of 2 years and 8 years who are developing Maltese as their
first language. The need for this test was long felt. Speech and
Language Pathologists (SLPs), working in the Maltese Islands, still
lacked a clinical tool with which they could compare the
Rosario Mizzi development of verbal comprehension in Maltese language to
Senior Allied Health Practitioner locally researched developmental milestones. Such comparison is
important in the diagnosis of developmental language delays or
impairments and in describing the effect of developmental
conditions (such as syndromes, learning disability and autism) on
the development of language and communication. It is also
important in clinical decision-making and designing individual
therapy plans. This new clinical tool was distributed in 60 community
SLP outlets covering Health Centres, Community Clinics and
Mainstream schools. The tool is being used as part of an assessment
battery and is showing very positive results. SLPs, carers and service
users provided very positive feedback for the TFM in terms of being
an easy tool to administer; it has clear photographic prompters and
scores can be clearly communicated to and understood by the
service user. Its use with adult clients is being investigated for
possible future development of this clinical tool.
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From the Primary HealthCare’s Album
Inauguration of the
Telemedicine Client
Support Centre
Mosta Technopark
26th March 2021
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Presentation of the eBusiness
Awards trophy.
The Primary HealthCare was the
winner for the Best use of Tech in
Business Transformation, with our
EPR project ‘Moving away from
Paper-Based patient records,
towards an integrated Electronic
Patient Record IT system’
Left to right: Mr Daniel Corso, Dr Pace Asciak, Ms Roseanne Camilleri,
____Mr Isaac Sammut and Dr Raymond Sammut
The importance of vaccination &
precautionary measures for COVID-19
The early stages of a vaccination campaign presents The measures which are considered as pivotal in
challenges due to the fact that it is not fully known protecting personal and public health against
to what extent fully vaccinated individuals will be COVID-19 include, keeping a safe distance from
protected from the disease in real-life conditions, others, limiting social or physical contact, wearing
how long will they be protected for, and what effects face-coverings, ensuring good ventilation inside
the vaccines will have on transmission. buildings, washing our hands properly and several
times a day and making sure we cover our nose and
According to ECDC (2021), COVID-19 vaccines are
mouth when we cough and sneeze.
proving to be effective at keeping people from
becoming sick or seriously ill even if they do get the In time, it is hoped that vaccination will contribute to
COVID-19 disease. However, research is still ongoing minimise the impact of the virus, such that the public
on this topic, and more evidence is also required health measures can be eased.
about the ability of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent
Meanwhile, remember that if you are advised to self
infection transmission. For this reason, until vaccine
-isolate, you must do so because there is still risk
coverage at population level is sufficiently high,
that you might spread infection to others, even if
better known as herd immunity, vaccinated
you have been vaccinated and feel entirely well
individuals should continue to follow the public
yourself.
health measures that apply to everyone and which
we have now become accustomed to. Adrian Pace
Senior Practice Nurse
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of this Centre as we wanted to create a pleasant and clinic and diabetic-foot screening. This Centre of
attractive environment for our clients and the staff. Excellence also introduced a number of new services,
We strongly believe that the look and the feel of the namely the new claudication clinic and the new high-
place of work says a lot about the ‘business’ and this risk foot biomechanics clinic, and the expansion of
is also reflected in the output quality. the rheumatoid foot clinic.
This centre offers numerous services including the The Podiatry Centre of Excellence will form part of
biomechanical assessment and gait analysis clinic, a the Centre of Excellence for Diabetes &
lower limb vascular clinic, nail avulsion surgery, a Endocrinology which is earmarked to be launched
podopaediatrics clinic for children under 16 years of later this year.
age, the rheumatology and musculoskeletal podiatry
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Biomechanical Assessment and Gait Analysis Clinic
The Podopaediatrics Clinic
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MALTA HEALTHCARE
AWARDS 2021
The Primary HealthCare was presented two
prestigious awards during the Malta
Healthcare Awards 2021 organised by the
Malta Business Review and which was held
on the 24th of February. The first award
recognises our Outstanding Contribution in
the field of Primary Health Care. We are
proud that the Primary HealthCare team
was also recognised as the Rising Start of
the Year!
Members of the Primary HealthCare Team and Ms Roseanne Camilleri
___during the Malta’s Best Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2020
During the Malta’s Best Entrepreneur of the
Year Awards 2020, Ms Roseanne Camilleri,
won three prestigious awards in Healthcare
Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Chairman's
Value Award and MALTCO Lotteries
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mr Roseanne Camilleri
receiving the awards
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Construction works on
the Vincent Moran
Southern Regional
Hub are underway and
progressing rapidly.
A visit to the new
Marsaxlokk
Community Clinic
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Santa Venera Community Clinic
After
Before
The new Kalkara
Community Clinic
Ongoing works
on the new
Community
Clinic in
Marsaskala
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doses of COVID-19 vaccines
administered by the
Primary HealthCare Team
(till May 2021)
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GUDJA COMMUNITY CLINIC &
Expansion of Services
The modernised Gudja Community Clinic, located community, include the GP appointment clinics,
right at the centre of this village, was inaugurated on Nurse-led Well Being Clinic, Podiatry, Physiotherapy,
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the 2 of March by the Deputy Prime Minister and Speech and Language Pathology, and Phlebotomy.
Minister for Health, Mr Chris Fearne, in the presence
The cost for the refurbishment and equipment,
of the Hon. Alex Muscat, Parliamentary Secretary for
which amounted to 12,000 EUR, was covered under
Citizenship and Communities,
the Holistic Overhaul of the Primary HealthCare
This Clinic will now be offering six different services, programme €10 million grant which was secured by
to the 3,200 residents of Gudja. These services, the Primary HealthCare in 2019 from the National
which are part of the Primary HealthCare’s new Development Social Fund (NDSF).
outreach concept to move its services closer to the
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