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General Practice Network NT (GPNNT) leads and coordinates a Territory-wide Primary Health Care network with the objective of improving health service delivery and health outcomes in the Northern Territory, Australia

Improving Indigenous Access to Mainstream Primary Health Care Services

Indigenous Health

Improving Indigenous Access to Mainstream Primary Health Care Services

General Practice Network NT’s focus is to contribute to closing the gap by improving Aboriginal people’s access to mainstream primary health care services, through:  

  • tackling chronic disease risk factors
  • improving chronic disease management and follow-up
  • providing workforce training, expansion and support.

Support

GPNNT will support Aboriginal people with a chronic disease or those at risk of having a chronic disease to access primary health care services through employing Indigenous Outreach Workers and providing care coordination services .

GPNNT will support NT private general practices to:

  • deliver culturally appropriate services through providing cultural training appropriate to the needs of local Aboriginal community members
  • access Practice Incentive Program (PIP) Indigenous Health Incentives
  • provide culturally appropriate chronic disease health checks and management plans
  • encourage Aboriginal people to self-identify to appropriate mainstream services
  • understand Closing the Gap measures relevant to their clients and their practice
  • foster collaboration and support between mainstream primary care and the community controlled health sector.

Resources

Improving Indigenous Access to Mainstream Primary Health Care Services CTG Fact Sheet

Care Coordination & Supplementary Services (CCSS) CCSS Fact Sheet

Practice incentives Program (PIP) PIP Indigenous Health Incentives

Medicare Item Number May 2012 GPNNT Reference Sheet (232kb)

Indigenous Health Incentives Practice Registration Form

Patient Registration Form

Indigenous Health Incentive and PBS Co-payment Measure Patient Information Sheet

Patient Consent Formand Withdrawal of Consent Form

DOHA Indigenous Chronic Disease Package

Education

Please refer to the GPNNT Calendar of Events for a full program of education provided by GPNNT.

Contact

For further information please contact:

Annette Holmes, Project Coordinator on (08) 8982 1053 or annette.holmes@gpnnt.org.au

Alice Springs, Fiona Nash, Project Officer on (08) 8950 4816 or fiona.nash@gpnnt.org.au
 

Ebony Miller, Outreach Worker on (08) 8950 4807/0419 035 980 or ebony.miller@gpnnt.org.au

Narelle Ritchie, Outreach Worker on (08) 8982 1065/0417 883 450 or narelle.ritchie@gpnnt.org.au

General Practice Network NT is supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Closing the Gap – Improving Indigenous Access to Mainstream Primary Care Program – Indigenous Outreach Workers and Indigenous Health Project Officers.