GO ID: GO6695

Agency: Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Close Date & Time:
30-Sep-2025 2:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
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Internal Reference ID: P4778
Primary Category: 231018 - Public Health Services
Publish Date: 18-Jan-2024
Location: ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS
Selection Process: Closed Non-Competitive

Description:

The Australian Government has allocated a total of $49.764 million (GST exclusive) from 2023-2027 for the General Practice Incentive Fund (GPIF) program. This comprises:

• $16.588 million (GST exclusive) in the 2023-24 Budget - Strengthening Medicare Support for Health, Care and Support Services in Thin Markets measure, and
• $16.588 million (GST exclusive) in the 2024-25 Budget - Boosting Supply of Healthcare in Areas of Shortage measure.
• $16.588 million (GST exclusive) in the 2024-25 MYEFO – Boosting Supply of Healthcare in Areas of Shortage.
• $47.064 million (GST exclusive) GPIF funding has been made available for this grant opportunity (the grant opportunity).

The grant opportunity will enable PHNs to commission agreed services in communities identified by the department where primary care and related service systems fail, are at imminent risk of failure, or are characterised by ongoing instability. The identification of sites where the grant may be applied will rest with the department and be informed through negotiation with relevant jurisdiction (state or territory government) and PHN, RWA specific to the location) giving consideration to potential risk of sites losing access to services or the sustainability of local service systems.

The range of services to be commissioned will be determined through assessment of, and agreement to the Service System Recovery Plan to be developed collaboratively by agreed local stakeholders.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

NOTE: Please refer to the most recent version of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines version 4 and to Addendum 5 published on 3 July 2025. 

Eligibility:

Who is eligible for a grant?
To be eligible, you must be one of the listed organisation/s outlined in Table 3: Eligible Organisations and have received an invitation to from the department. The list of eligible organisation/s was determined to be limited to PHNs; this is in keeping with the intent of the General Practice Incentive Fund program as announced in the 2023-24 Budget. PHNs are regional organisations that commission and integrate services at the local level to address identified needs and provide support and system level integration for health services to improve coordination of care for patients. 
PHNs are individual, not-for-profit organisations that were selected through an open competitive process in 2014-15.

Who is not eligible for a grant?

You are not eligible to for this grant opportunity if you:

• have not received an invitation from the department
• are not listed as an eligible organisation in section 4.1, and
• are an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’.

Grant Activity Timeframe:

Grant activities must be completed by 30 June 2027.

Total Amount Available (AUD):

 $47,064,000.00 

Instructions for Application Submission:

This is a non-application-based process. The eligible organisation/s does not need to submit an application for this grant opportunity.

Addenda Available:

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For grant queries, please refer to the official contact details:
Health Grants Team

 Email: [email protected]