Dr Andrew Knight

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Sch of Public Health & Com Med

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awknight@aapt.net.au

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Conjoint Senior Lecturer

Andrew Knight completed undergraduate medical training at UNSW in 1984 and specialised in general practice. As well as clinical practice mainly in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney he was a medical educator with the RACGP training program from 1998 and became founding Director of Training for the regional training provider WentWest in 2002. During this time he developed an interest in EBM and implementation which led to a decade of leadership in the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program involving approximately 2000 general practices in quality improvement. He is currently a staff specialist and conjoint senior lecturer at the Fairfield GP Unit. He has been director and chair of the Blue Mountains Division of General Practice, the Nepean Blue Mountains Medicare Local and is chair of the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network. He has been a director of NPS Medicinewise since 2010. Andrew's areas of publication have included rare diseases, medical education and quality improvement.

Qualifications :

MBBS UNSW 1984

MMedSci(clinepid) University of Newcastle 2004

FRACGP 1993

FAICD 2012

Awards :

GP Leaders Award 2002 National Institute of Clinical Studies

Best Tutor Fairfield Hospital 2012

Best Tutor Fairfield Hospital 2016

Research

Publications related to this Person

Book Chapters

Knight A; Dawda P, 2018, 'Quality improvement research in primary care', in Goodyear-Smith F; Mash R (ed.), How To Do Primary Care Research, edn. 1, CRC Press

Journal articles

Tam CWM; Knight A; Liaw ST, 2016, 'Alcohol screening and brief interventions in primary care - Evidence and a pragmatic practice-based approach', Australian Family Physician, vol. 45, pp. 767 - 770

Knight AW; Szucs C; Dhillon M; Lembke T; Mitchell C, 2014, 'The eCollaborative: using a quality improvement collaborative to implement the National eHealth Record System in Australian primary care practices.', Int J Qual Health Care, vol. 26, pp. 411 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzu059

Knight A; Lembke T, 2014, 'Appointment zen - shaping demand and matching capacity.', Aust Fam Physician, vol. 43, pp. 234 - 238, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24701629

Knight A, 2013, 'Patient-centred prescribing', Australian Prescriber, vol. 36, pp. 199 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.18773/austprescr.2013.078

Knight A; Lembke T, 2013, 'Appointments 101--how to shape a more effective appointment system.', Aust Fam Physician, vol. 42, pp. 152 - 156, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23529528

Knight AW; Ford D; Audehm R; Colagiuri S; Best J, 2012, 'The Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program: improving diabetes care.', BMJ Qual Saf, vol. 21, pp. 956 - 963, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2011-000460

Knight AW; Caesar C; Ford D; Coughlin A; Frick C, 2012, 'Improving primary care in Australia through the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program: a quality improvement report.', BMJ Qual Saf, vol. 21, pp. 948 - 955, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2011-000165

Knight A; Lembke T, 2011, 'Appointments - getting it right.', Aust Fam Physician, vol. 40, pp. 20 - 23, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21301688

Ford DR; Knight AW, 2010, 'The Australian Primary Care Collaboratives: an Australian general practice success story.', Med J Aust, vol. 193, pp. 90 - 91, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20642412

Knight AW, 2009, 'Learning from four years of collaborative access work in Australia.', Qual Prim Care, vol. 17, pp. 71 - 74, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19281677

Senior T; Knight A, 2008, 'Rare diseases: a role for primary care.', Lancet, vol. 372, pp. 890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61394-X

Jiwa M; Knight A, 2008, 'Delays in accessing primary care.', BMJ, vol. 337, pp. a1435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a1435

Knight A, 2008, ''I've been bleeding from the bowel'.', Aust Fam Physician, vol. 37, pp. 918 - 921, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19037465

Knight AW; Taruscio D, 2007, 'International conferences on rare diseases: initiatives in commitment, patient care and connections.', Med J Aust, vol. 187, pp. 74 - 76, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17635086

Knight A; Usherwood T; Adams J, 2006, 'Increasing EBM learning in training GPs - a qualitative study of supervisors.', Aust Fam Physician, vol. 35, pp. 268 - 269, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16642248

Knight AW; Senior TP, 2006, 'The common problem of rare disease in general practice.', Med J Aust, vol. 185, pp. 82 - 83, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16842062

Senior TP; Knight AW, 2006, 'Rare diseases need a generic approach.', BMJ, vol. 333, pp. 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.333.7568.602-a

Knight A; Canalese R, 2005, 'Three years of registrar rural exemptions--a review of a novel approach.', Australian family physician, vol. 34 Suppl 1, pp. 13 - 15

Knight AW; Padgett J; George B; Datoo MR, 2005, 'Reduced waiting times for the GP: two examples of "advanced access" in Australia.', Med J Aust, vol. 183, pp. 101 - 103, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16022626

Farmer L; Knight A; Ford D, 2005, 'Systems change in Australian general practice--early impact of the National Primary Care Collaboratives.', Aust Fam Physician, vol. 34 Suppl 1, pp. 44 - 46, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16369683

Kefalas B; Usherwood T; Knight A, 2005, 'External clinical teaching visits in the regionalised environment.', Australian family physician, vol. 34 Suppl 1, pp. 10 - 12

Knight A, 2004, 'The collaborative method. A strategy for improving Australian general practice.', Aust Fam Physician, vol. 33, pp. 269 - 274, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15129474

Usherwood T; Mishra A; Knight A, 2004, 'Registrars are teachers too!', Med Educ, vol. 38, pp. 1189 - 1190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2004.01997.x

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