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Background - Collaboratives

The Australian Primary Care Collaboratives (APCC) Program began as a 3-year, $14.6 million initiative funded from the Focus on Prevention - Primary Care Providers Working initiative announced in the 2003 – 2004 Australian Government Budget. The Program is of international significance.

Further funding has been granted for Phase 2 of the APCC Program. Phase 2 of the Program will be delivered to Divisions and their member practices by the Improvement Foundation Australia.

The APCC Program will help general practitioners (GPs) and primary health care providers work together to improve patient clinical outcomes, reduce lifestyle risk factors, help maintain good health for those with chronic and complex conditions and promote a culture of quality improvement in primary health care. Ultimately, the APCC Program aims to find better ways to provide primary health care services to patients through shared learning, peer support, training, education and support systems.

The Collaboratives methodology, designed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the USA, provides a generic quality improvement model that can be applied to achieve incremental, rapid and locally relevant improvements across a broad range of clinical and practice business issues.

The topics to be addressed in the first phases of the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program are Diabetes, the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, and Improved Access to primary care.

For more information see What is a Collaborative? & Collaborative Framework