National Consistent Payments Framework

The National Consistent Payments (NCP) framework provides support payments to supervisors, practices and registrars on the Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) program.

About the NCP framework

In February 2023, we introduced the National Consistent Payments (NCP) to provide financial support to Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) program participants:

  • supervisors
  • practices
  • registrars.

Salary Support payments to AGPT registrars training in Aboriginal Medical Services are also delivered through the NCP framework.

The key guiding principles for developing the NCP framework are:

  • reduce red tape
  • promote accountability
  • increase transparency around GP training.

This will benefit supervisors, practices and registrars. It will attract medical doctors pursuing a GP career in regional, rural and remote areas.

The NCP framework in the AGPT program aims to increase:

  • transparency and consistency of payments to supervisors, practices and registrars for training; and
  • clarity of financial support for training undertaken in rural and remote areas.

To read more on receiving payments and to determine your eligibility for different payment levels, see the NCP Framework and NCP Guidelines

Updates from semester 2, 2025

We have updated all NCP documents to provide clarity around training terms and support payments.

The updates were made in consultation with the GP colleges. This will give AGPT participants a better understanding of how fair and equitable full-time equivalent payments are calculated. This includes:

  • pro-rata payments for registrars training part-time
  • payments for registrars training across multiple MM locations
  • case scenarios to show how payments are calculated
  • a glossary to explain the terminology used in GP training.

Note: For registrars training in different MM locations in a training term, the updates may have separate payments rather than one payment in advance.

To see how this may affect your payments, please refer to the new documents that take effect in Semester 2, 2025. For impacted participants, please contact your college to learn how they may be able to further support you with flexible payments.

How to apply for NCP payments

Eligibility for payments are assessed by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). They use the NCP framework to determine the payments for participants. Services Australia make the payments on behalf of Health.

In addition to the payments made by Services Australia, the colleges can make additional support payments under a flexible payments pool to support participants in rural and remote areas.

Learn how to register on the Services Australia online payment system to receive payments under the NCP framework.

Read the NCP guidelines and the NCP fact sheet.

Stakeholder consultation

To prepare for the start of the college-led AGPT program and NCP payments in 2023, stakeholder consultation was carried out through a series of workshops. The stakeholders included:

  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
  • Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
  • National Rural Health Commissioner
  • General Practice Supervisors Australia (GPSA)
  • General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA)
  • Australian Medical Association (AMA)
  • Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA)
  • Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA).

NCP Resources

NCP Framework

National Consistent Payments Framework – 2025

National Consistent Payments Framework – 2022

NCP Framework fact sheet

National Consistent Payments (NCP) Framework fact sheet – 2025

NCP Framework guidelines

National Consistent Payments (NCP) Framework guidelines – 2025

National Consistent Payments (NCP) Framework guidelines – 2022

AGPT Program Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Salary Support Program Policy 2024

AGPT Program Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Salary Support Program Policy 2024

Contact

Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) program contact

Email us if you have any questions about the AGPT program.

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) – AGPT contact

ACRRM provides Fellowship training, professional development and standards for rural and remote general practitioners.
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Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) – AGPT contact

The RACGP provides Fellowship training, professional development and standards for both urban and rural general practitioners.
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