Our first National Primary Health Care Strategy: 3 years on, what change for general practice?

Achievements, challenges and missing pieces in the progress of this critical element in our national reform program

Our first National Primary Health Care Strategy was released in 2010, after 2 years of consultation, development and review. In keeping with the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report the year before, it identified a strong and evolving primary health care system, anchored by general practice, as being “critical to the future success and sustainability of our entire health care system”.