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Head to Health centres are a safe and welcoming space to talk to someone if you, or someone you care about, are in distress, or need help finding the right mental health support to meet your needs.
Head to Health centres are a safe and welcoming space to talk to someone if you, or someone you care about, are in distress, or need help finding the right mental health support to meet your needs.
Service Connect Line is a free telephone service that links people with a mental illness residing in the Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network to psychosocial support services (mental and physical health as well as social supports).
The Hunter New England and Central Coast PHN promotes the availability of validated self-help and digital mental health services as part of a stepped care approach to mental health service provision.
For providers, disaster preparedness is a vital step to reduce vulnerability, to minimize risk and to increase their business and workforce resilience. Being prepared ensures that you and your staff are ready to respond if a disaster affects your business. The PHN is actively supporting disaster preparedness for primary care providers.
Emergencies and disasters may affect primary care providers and their staff, and the community they work and live in, and may cause multisystemic losses. The PHN is actively supporting primary care providers who are affected by disasters and emergencies.
Primary care providers are inherently involved and play an important role in the disaster recovery of their community. The PHN is actively supporting primary care providers who recover from the effect of disasters and emergencies .
In the last years, the Hunter New England and Central Coast has been affected by various disasters, including floods, bushfires, drought, the Covid-19 pandemic and a rodent plague.
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (The PHN) is committed to supporting translational research that aligns to our key priorities to achieve better health outcomes in our region.
The PHN has a research strategy with the key aim to build our research capability and strengthen our research partnerships within the region and embed a research culture within our organisation.
At the Hunter, New England and Central Coast PHN (the PHN), our vision is for healthy people and healthy communities. We are working towards delivering innovative, locally relevant solutions that measurably improve the health outcomes of our communities. As a consumer, you can use this website to access information, resources, and local health campaigns from the PHN under the community tab.You can also filter the 'community' topic on the news section to find links to high quality health information.
The Australian Government is establishing 58 Medicare UCCs across Australia, including 14 in NSW. Four clinics are open in the HNECC PHN footprint.