Primary Care Partnership
Over 800 agencies have come together in 31 Primary Care Partnerships (PCPs) across Victoria with the aim to improve the overall health and wellbeing of Victorians by:
- Improving the experience and outcomes for people who use primary care services.
- Reducing the preventable use of hospital, medical and residential services through a greater emphasis on health promotion programs and by responding to the early signs of disease and/or people's need for support.
Three key service areas of the PCPs were initially identified:
1. Integrated health promotion
Developing the health promotion capacity of agencies and coordinating health promotion programs and resources to improve health outcomes for members of our community
Developing the health promotion capacity of agencies and coordinating health promotion programs and resources to improve health outcomes for members of our community
2. Service coordination
Improve health service coordination through tool templates, data standards, orientation programs, electronic referral, etc. to improve the accessibility of the health system to make more effective use of health resources
Improve health service coordination through tool templates, data standards, orientation programs, electronic referral, etc. to improve the accessibility of the health system to make more effective use of health resources
3. Integrated Chronic Disease Management
Provide a coordinated approach to the planning and delivery of health services for consumers with chronic disease to reduce the demand on the acute sector.
Provide a coordinated approach to the planning and delivery of health services for consumers with chronic disease to reduce the demand on the acute sector.