PCPs connect more than 850 organisations across health, education, community service and local government with local communities.
PCPs share skills and harness resources to find solutions to local health and wellbeing challenges.
PCPs are often the key health infrastructure in rural communities where the number of services has significantly declined.
PCPs support the delivery of over twenty state government strategies, actively embedding government policy and reform in local communities through more than 150 distinct initiatives.
PCPs stand ready to continue delivering outcomes for Victorian communities.
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See an example of a response to commentary on discontinuation of PCPs by the Board Chair of HealthWest PCP here
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Media releases
- 16 October 2019: Review welcomed as Primary Care Partnerships win temporary reprieve
- 3 October 2019: Communities will lose out if Primary Care Partnerships are defunded
- 11 September 2019: Primary Care Partnerships lead community change and should not be cut
Resources:
Contributing to better health and wellbeing outcomes for our communities: Examples from around Victoria (September 2019)
Primary Care Partnerships value add and return on investment (September 2019): Infographic, text and downloadable social media images
Primary Care Partnerships, who we are and what we do (December 2018): Infographic
Exemplar Primary Care Partnership initiatives: A snapshot of activity across Victoria (March 2019)
Making the invisible visible. A report into the partnership approach of seven rural & regional primary care partnerships in Victoria (January 2019)
#SecurePCPsFuture in the media
- 30 October 2019: Grampians Pyrenees PCP’s funding is extended until the end of June 2020 (The Stawell Times News)
- 18 October 2019: Regional health partnership still unclear (The Swan Hill Guardian)
- 17 October 2019: Primary care partnerships funding yet to be continued by government (Riverine Herald)
- 8 October 2019: Funding needed to continue primary care partnership’s work (Mirage News)
- 27 September 2019: PCPs across western Victoria have no guaranteed funding past 2019 (Ararat Advertiser)
- 24 September 2019: Funding cuts not healthy (Wangaratta Chronicle)
- 24 September 2019: Health partnership faces funding cuts (North Central and Whittelsea Review)
- 19 September 2019: Left in limbo (The Spectator Greater Hamilton)
- 16 September 2019: Primary care funding (WIN News Ballarat)
- 16 September 2019: Health group’s future unclear (Portland Observer)
- 16 September 2019: Health Minister lashes Roma Britnell over ‘false’ PCP funding cut claims (The Standard)
- 13 September 2019: Wimmera Primary Care Partnership’s uncertain future (The Wimmera Mail-Times)
Other recent news…
- 24 October 2019: Rise. Resist. Unite. Dance! … 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (Midland Express)
- 22 October 2019: Age-friendly forums help groups to be more inclusive of older people (Mirage News)
- 21 October 2019: Tastes of the world on show (Latrobe Valley Express)
- 13 October 2019: Gambler’s Help referrals in Campaspe rise (Bendigo Advertiser)
- 9 October 2019: Connecting with local women over a cuppa (The Adviser)
- 8 October 2019: New sports stadium for Epping under Casa D’Abruzzo Club deal (Star Weekly Northern)
- 30 September 2019: Expo highlights opportunities (The News Bayside)
- 17 September 2019: Central Gippsland Health to trial light therapy glasses for shift workers (Gippsland Times and Maffra Spectator)
- 12 September 2019: Wimmera mental health advocate Lauren Dempsey encourages others to reach out (The Stawell Times News)
- 12 September 2019: Ararat hosts R U OK? Day event (Ararat Advertiser)
- 12 September 2019: Halls Gap’s Budja Budja medical clinic launches new mobile clinic van in region (The Stawell Times News)
Hansard
- 16 October 2019: Questions without notice and ministers statements (Ms Crozier, Ms Mikakos)
- 16 October 2019: Motions (health funding) (Ms Crozier, Ms Mikakos, Mrs McArthur, Ms Stitt, Ms Bath, Ms Garrett)
- 15 October 2019: Members statements (Ms Crozier)
- 12 September 2019: Questions without notice and ministers statements (Ms Crozier, Ms Mikakos, Mr Davis)
- 12 September 2019: Adjournment (Ms Bath)
- 12 September 2019: Written responses to questions without notice
- 12 September 2019: Adjournment (Ms Crozier)
- 12 September 2019: Written responses to questions without notice
- 11 September 2019: Adjournment (Mr Ondarchie)
- 11 September 2019: Adjournment (Mr Finn)
- 11 September 2019: Adjournment (Mr Davis)
- 11 September 2019: Adjournment (Ms Crozier)
- 10 September 2019: Questions without notice and ministers statements (Ms Crozier, Ms Mikakos)