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 is identifying opportunities and removing barriers that stop health professionals from working to their full scope of practice. It aims to better use the skills of the entire primary care workforce. The review is due to provide a final report and recommendations to government in the second half of 2024.
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 program
The Review of general practice incentives program is looking at whether the Practice Incentives Program and Workforce Incentive Program are effective and fit for purpose. The review’s recommendations will help guide general practice funding reform to ensure high-quality patient-centred care into the future.