Primary health sector engagement and support

Our Primary Health Care team continues to provide support to health services such as private general practice.

In 2021–22, NT PHN supported the commissioning of the Practice Leadership Masterclass. This program follows the delivery of the nine-month Practice Leadership Advantage program in which general practices are taken through key focus areas such as:

• use of data to drive improvement • maximising Medicare billing • integrated care delivery models • practising at top of scope for all professions.

Other areas of support to private general practice also include responding to daily operational enquiries. Our team supports practices over the phone, email or by doing onsite visits. The team also travels to regional centres where required.

NT PHN is working with the Aboriginal Medical Service Alliance Northern Territory and Northern Territory Health as part of the Pathways to Community Control.

This program is committed to working with healthcare consumers, carers and communities to ensure our systems involve Aboriginal Territorians as active partners in healthcare. This includes improving access to timely, quality, and patient focused healthcare across the Territory. Through the formation of transition pathways, we ensure Remote Primary Health Care Services (controlled by NT Health) are handed to Aboriginal Community Control policy. Communities then have more control over their own affairs, including service delivery based on its aspirations and needs.

Through our partnerships in 2020–21 we have assisted the progress of the Pathways to Community Control for West Arnhem. This has been achieved through Chairing the local Steering Committee. The Committee oversee and manage the transition of primary health care services (controlled by NT Health) to Aboriginal Community Control. In this region we are transitioning control to the Red Lily Health Board Aboriginal Corporation (RLHB).

The services for transition are located at:

Minjilang

Warruwi

Gunbalanya

Jabiru

Celebrating the Warruwi Transition