Background

The purpose of the Primary Healthcare Advisory Committee (PHAC) is to support and guide information and statistics on primary healthcare through providing high-level strategic advice covering:

  • contemporary and emerging issues in primary healthcare in Australia
  • priorities for work relating to primary healthcare information and statistics including for a national primary healthcare data collection
  • the scope and nature of relevant products (including websites) to maximise their utility
  • content in reports and primary healthcare related products
  • communications and engagement approaches
  • AIHW’s development of a nationally-coordinated primary healthcare information system, inclusive of a National Primary Health Care Data Asset.

Decision-making responsibility remains with the AIHW.

Given the increasing interconnectedness of information and statistics, the Committee’s advice may not be limited to advice on AIHW primary healthcare information and statistics.

Membership

The AIHW will determine PHAC membership. Each member is appointed on the basis of the skills, knowledge and expertise of either their employing organisations, or as nominated individuals. 

PHAC will comprise the Chair and approximately 15 members representing one or more of the following areas:

  • Commonwealth/state primary health care responsibilities
  • Commonwealth/state digital health responsibilities
  • Primary Health Networks from a policy and operational perspective
  • The interface between the acute and primary healthcare sectors
  • Research on primary healthcare
  • Primary health care service delivery or service management and service delivery management
  • Consumer advocacy
  • Rural and remote primary health care
  • Legal, ethical or privacy considerations in the use and management of health data
  • Safety and quality in health care
  • Healthcare practice management
  • Culturally and linguistically diverse health services
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services
  • Allied Health services.

Secretariat

The secretariat services for PHAC will be provided by AIHW.

Contact details

Postal address
PHAC Secretariat
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
GPO Box 570
Canberra ACT 2601
Email address
[email protected]