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The NSW and ACT Primary Health Networks (PHNs) were selected by the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) to conduct the Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) Workforce Planning and Prioritisation (GP WPP) activity across NSW and ACT. CHN was successful in its bid to lead the NSW and ACT GP WPP consortium, which is funded until the end of 2025.
The new national GP WPP Program looks at a range of different information and listens to communities. Based on what communities say and information about what their health care needs are now and into the future, the WPP program will make suggestions on places where doctors could be located while they are training to become GPs. These places are suggestions only and the 2 colleges in Australia who train doctors to become qualified GPs, the Royal Australian College of General Practice and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, make the decisions on where doctors do their training.
CHN works together with the 10 NSW Primary Health Networks on the WPP program. The suggestions the WPP Program reports make, may in the future change where doctors are trained to become GPs in NSW and ACT.
Following the grant agreement finalisation with DoHAC in August 2022, the WPP Program Data Reporting Framework was developed in November 2022, the ACT & NSW Steering Committee was established and the first WPP report was completed in February 2023, with prioritised catchments being considered by colleges for future GP registrar placement. The CHN WPP team lead an onboarding workshop for NSW PHNs in May 2022 with attendance from DoHAC and GP training colleges to ensure a high level of program understanding by all PHNs. During the workshop we collaboratively developed ways of working to support efficiency and collaboration across the ACT & NSW consortium.
