Current Grant Opportunity View - GO6695

The General Practice Incentive Fund grant opportunity (the grant opportunity) was announced as a 2023-24 Budget measure. The 2023-24 Budget included the Strengthening Medicare – Support for Health, Care and Support Services in Thin Markets measure which provides for:

• Funding of $16.588 million for 2023-24 to extend the GP Incentive Fund. This will allow resources to be allocated through PHNs where market failure occurs, to commission additional services defined in a Service System Recovery Plan developed with local service providers and key stakeholders.
• Scoping and developing a comprehensive response for thin markets to be presented in the 2024-25 budget process.
• A stocktake and review of policy and program levers to support responses in thin markets.

The purpose of the grant opportunity is to allow 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 andbe 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.

We cannot consider your suitability to receive a grant if you do not satisfy all the eligibility criteria. We cannot provide a grant if you receive funding from another government source for the same purpose.

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’.

$16,588,000.00

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