Primary and integrated care

Our goals

• Strengthen and support the primary healthcare workforce to meet the needs of the community.
• Work collaboratively with Primary Health Networks, Local Health Districts, non-government organisations and professional groups to improve primary health care and integration of health services.
• Lead implementation and evaluation of integrated care strategies in Local Health Districts and Primary Health Networks.
• Support the development and evaluation of new models of care in the Australian health system.
• Explore research on supporting patients with chronic conditions in the community. 
• Generate evidence base to support optimal healthcare services delivery to patients in primary care settings.

Research strengths

• Strengthening and supporting the primary health care workforce.
• Improving integration of services and continuity of care.
• Access to primary health care.
• Improving the management of chronic diseases.

Our impact

• Improve the capacity of consumers, communities, healthcare workers, local governments and health services to identify needs and challenges in access, equity, integration and prevention.
• Strengthen and support the primary healthcare workers, the health system and its partners to improve and adapt to meet current and future challenges.
• Identify and influence the determinants of health and inequitable distribution of health. 
• Promote partnerships within the health system and across sectors as an effective way of addressing issues and ensuring relevance of research.
• Develop a strong evidence base to support the delivery of high-quality health care to people with chronic diseases in primary care settings.
• Improving quality use of medicines and reducing medicine-related harm.
• Addressing the burden of multimorbidity and polypharmacy.