Rural health access ensures people living in rural communities of the PHN can access health care at the right time, where they live. The PHN is developing a Rural Health Strategy that focuses on rural primary health care solutions, a sustainable workforce, and innovative models of care. The Rural Health Strategy will direct The PHN’s rural health access initiatives.
The Better Health for the Bush Collaborative is a workforce initiative in response to the ever-growing issues of primary care workforce supply in rural areas of the New England region. The PHN is currently working intensively within the Glen Innes community to collaborate on a primary care solution.
Since the inception of the Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (the PHN) in 2015, primary health care support and services have increased by a value of more than $45 million. The increase in primary health care support and services to the PHN’s rural and remote communities is due to an equitable process for distribution of funding based on needs identified in the PHN’s health needs assessment.
The Small Town Engagement Model (STEM) aims to support small rural towns with populations of less than 1000 people. This model is where an existing allied health business hosts another primary care provider that creates a Multidisciplinary Team and provides a boarder scope of services to the small community.
The Health Hub will be developed alongside the CARE Model in Glen Innes to ensure the local community and health professionals lead the implementation of the CARE model in their community.
Our Primary Health Network works with health care providers across regional and rural areas to deliver a range of primary health care services that meet identified needs and close service gaps for people living in our region.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (the PHN) will work with the Glen Innes community to implement an innovative pilot healthcare model as part of the Better Health for the Bush Framework.
The PHN is committed to designing, developing, and supporting primary rural health care through addressing the PHN’s purpose of increasing equity of access to primary health care services.
A Better Health for the Bush Initiative
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (the PHN) has successfully secured pilot funding under the Federal Government’s Innovative Models of Care (IMOC) Program, which will see Glen Innes as a pilot site to introduce an innovative healthcare model.
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (HNECC PHN) has successfully secured a grant under the Federal Government’s Innovative Models of Care (IMOC) Program, which will see the establishment of a Health Hub in Glen Innes.
Collaboration with stakeholders is crucial to help us understand emerging issues impacting the community, focus on the right topics at the right time and develop resources that are fit for purpose. We seek to work with you and value contributions to our planning. Please contact the rural health team or phone 1300 859 028 to connect with us.