Primary Care Partnership (PCP)

A partnership geared to improve the primay health care experience to achieve better health and well being for the Hume and Moreland communities.

Primary Care Partnerships (PCP) began in 2000 as an initiative of the Victorian State Government. There are 31 PCPs across the State charged with the responsibility of engaging local health providers in a partnership response to developing a better coordinated and integrated primary health system. The four deliverables for PCPs include partnership development, service coordination, integrated health promotion, and integrated chronic disease management.
The main motivation for service providers to become PCP members is to improve relationships and achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes for the community.
Each of the 31 Primary Care Partnerships are required to produce a Community Health Plan that focuses on the above priorities and includes planning and reporting mechanisms for each priority.
Each PCP is encouraged to tailor their plan to suit issues relevant to their geographic location (catchment). Recurrent funding to progress core work was introduced in 2005-06. PCPs work together with their members to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for the community.