Health Care Homes

High-quality patient care

The Health Care Home is an existing general practice or ACCHOs that commits to a systematic approach to chronic disease management in primary care, which supports accountability for ongoing high-quality patient care.

It uses an evidence-based, coordinated, multi-disciplinary model of care that aims to improve efficiencies and promote innovation in primary care services.

Shaping care to patient needs

It is consistent with similar models adopted successfully around the world, including the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and formalises the attributes of many high performing primary care practices here in Australia.

The approach provides doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals greater flexibility to shape care around an individual patient’s needs and encourages patients to participate in and direct their own care.

Health Care Home services

The Health Care Homes Trial has been extended to June 2021. No additional sites will be added as part of the extension; however, we will continue to work with existing sites to maximise enrolments and their team-based activities.