About the grant
The Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) Program is a component of the Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme (IAHP).
The purpose of this grant opportunity is to allocate funding under the IAHP CPHC stream to select Aboriginal community-controlled health services (ACCHS) in local communities, previously serviced by existing ACCHS funded under the IAHP CPHC rolling funding arrangements.
This grant opportunity will allow eligible organisations to demonstrate their capacity to provide a sustainable model of health care that will deliver high quality, culturally safe, multi- disciplinary, and integrated CPHC for First Nations people in their communities.
An essential requirement of CPHC funding is that grantees must provide essential primary health care, which, includes general practice and clinical services delivered by suitably qualified medical professionals. Grantees have the flexibility to determine what other eligible services will be delivered in order to meet identified community health and wellbeing needs, and determine the appropriate workforce required to implement those services. Those services may include:
- population health programs
- activities that support the delivery of essential clinical services
- improving access to antenatal care and child, maternal and family health services for First Nations children, their mothers and families
- the prevention, detection and management of chronic diseases
- investment in priority health areas in regions of high health need or population growth and
- improving the clinical effectiveness of the health system and supporting sustainable, long-term service reform delivery and improvement through Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI).
Eligibility:
To be eligible, an organisation must:
- have received an invitation to apply from the department
- have been assessed by an independent consultancy service, procured by the department, as having the capability, and supporting infrastructure, to deliver the grant activities (see Attachment A)
- due to geography, be (or will be) considered the most appropriate ACCHS to continue providing CPHC service delivery in their respective communities, and
- if relevant, be currently delivering CPHC under a subcontract agreement.
The grant opportunity is a non-competitive process to facilitate the continuing delivery of CPHC as previously delivered under the CPHC RFA. Only ACCHSs that satisfy the eligibility criteria for this grant opportunity will be eligible. These eligibility criteria enable the department to ascertain that ACCHSs have demonstrated the necessary capability to deliver culturally safe comprehensive primary health care under the IAHP.
Organisations will be invited to apply via an email from the department. Invitations may be issued at any time over the grant period. The invitation will include instructions on timeframes to submit an application via GrantConnect.
Total Amount Available (AUD):
$28,000,000.00
Instructions for Application Submission:
Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the red Submit Application button on the left-hand side.
You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. Registered users will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission. If you do not receive an automated email notification within 24 hours of submission, please email Grant.ATM@health.gov.au
Other Instructions:
Applicants should follow the below instructions to upload their application:
- Filename(s) do not exceed 100 characters.
- Any file type can be submitted to GrantConnect.
- Refrain from using special characters. These include, but are not limited to, colon, forward and back slash, question marks, en and em dash.
- A maximum of five (5) separate files can be submitted at one time.
- Do not include macros or password protect applications or attachments.
Contact Details
Health Grants Team
Email Address: Grant.ATM@health.gov.au