Collaboratives
The Australian Primary Care Collaboratives (APCC) Program helps 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 Program uses Collaborative methodology, designed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the USA. This methodology 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.
GPpartners have more than 20 practices particpating in Collaboratives. Read about some of our practices successes.