Our role is to coordinate, facilitate and support agencies to work in partnership for the benefit of our communities. Working together, we can ensure an integrated, systematic approach to disease prevention, management and service coordination. The outcome is a healthier, happier community.
Established in 2000 by the State Government, Primary Care Partnerships work at a place-based level bringing health and human service organisations together to find new ways of collaborating, to plan for the health needs of their communities and to create robust partnerships.
In the context of an ageing population, increasing chronic disease and ever-increasing costs of healthcare, PCPs are helping to create a health system that is more efficient and better coordinated, ultimately helping people to stay healthier longer and to stay out of hospital.
Through their local PCP, member organisations who are on the frontline of delivering services commit to work together to find ways of making a person’s journey through the health and human service system smoother.
PCPs help organisations share skills, resources and expertise, building the capacity of organisations and their staff and reducing duplication across service coordination, chronic disease management and prevention.
