Workforce Incentive Program – Increased payments to support multidisciplinary team care
Increase in incentives for primary care practices to employ various health professionals to provide team-based, patient-centred, high-quality, multidisciplinary primary care.
Under the Workforce Incentive Program – Practice Stream measure, practices have received increased payments to employ various health professionals supporting multidisciplinary care since August 2023. This does not include medical practitioners.
National Scope of Practice Review
The Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce – Scope of Practice Review examined the barriers and incentives health professionals face working to their full scope of practice in primary care.. The report recommended governments work together to review the barriers and incentives for primary health care professionals working to their full scope of practice.
Primary Health Network commissioning of multidisciplinary teams
PHNs will be funded to commission multidisciplinary care from allied health professionals, nurse practitioners, nurses, midwives or Aboriginal health workers or practitioners. This will support small or solo general practices to improve the health of under-served patients.
Review of General Practice Incentives
The Review of General Practice Incentives identified ways to redesign current general practice incentive programs to better support quality, patient-centred primary care from multidisciplinary teams. The review’s recommendations will help guide general practice funding reform to ensure high-quality patient-centred care into the future.