GPs and other Primary Care Professionals

Overall, our Primary Care Engagement, Workforce Development, Disaster and Preparedness, and Integration and Partnership teams are dedicated to supporting primary care providers in delivering high-quality, sustainable, and person-centred care by:

• delivering capacity and capability-building activities to ensure change and reform readiness, and the adoption of reform policy in primary care
• aligning digital health, data analytics, and system intelligence to work closely with GPs, primary care professionals, and the broader health service sector
• driving the facilitation, integration, and innovation in primary healthcare delivery models using evidence-based and person-centred approaches, with our team committed to working with our strategic partners to broker innovative, place-based models of care to keep people well and out of hospital
• assist primary care providers to maintain highly effective and sustainable practices
• equipping the primary care workforce to effectively address the demands in preparing for and responding to disasters such as floods, cyclones, COVID-19, or any other business interruption.

A selection of our GP and other Primary Care Professionals commissioning priorities are highlighted below:

Commissioning priorities for 2024 are: 

• Rural Integrated Team Care
• Primary Care Build Back Better GP and AMS program
• CQI - Chronic Care

Commissioning priorities for 2023 were:

• Primary Care Build Back Better GP and AMS program
• Digital and technology grants program
• Child and maternal workforce development uplift
• Strengthening Medicare - GP grants program

Find out more about workforce development here.