Primary Health Care

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Introduction
The Australian government works to ensure there are sustainability and improvement of
the primary health care with the objective of safeguarding safe and effective services for the
consumers designed at delivering care in the most efficient and suitable situation and improving
the outcomes of health. The National Primary Health Care Strategic Framework which is
endorsed by the standing council on Health presented an agreed approach for a more robust and
stronger system of healthcare in Australia (Standing Council on Health 2013). It outlined four
major strategies of improving healthcare that majorly focuses on the public areas. One of the key
strategies of improving the primary health care to the public areas is improving access and
reducing equity in services of healthcare. Thus, the primary system of healthcare is supposed to
deliver high quality and services that are financially sustainable. The primary health care
comprises a wide range of services and providers across the public, private and non-
governmental sector. At the clinical levels, it involves layers of services encountered in the
health and need the teams of the healthcare working collectively to provide continuous, inclusive
and person-centered care.
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While Australian receives primary care through the general practitioners particularly
health services in remote and rural area. The services at primary healthcare are provided
appropriately by a skilled workforce and include nurses, midwives, allied health professionals,
pharmacist, and aboriginal health workers. The primary health care is the frontline of the
Australian systems of healthcare. This is because it can be provided in the community-based

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settings and home. It is offered as the first fact of contact with the systems of healthcare in the
community where people live. The ministers of health have recognized the primary care systems
requires to be easy for the consumers to use and access and is actively designed to support them
be able to manage their health care needs and thus live as healthy as possible Stoddart & Evans,
2017).
The improve access and reduce inequity is provided through an integrated system of
service that provides care of high quality within the country and passively address service
groups. This strategy aligns with the five key strategies of the WHO. The WHO key strategies
were established to ensure that patients access quality healthcare. Reducing exclusion and social
disparities often regarded as the universal coverage is a principle aimed at ensuring equity on the
healthcare. (Marmot, Allen, Bell, Bloomer & Goldblatt, 2012) It aims at promoting models of
health systems that facilitate the long-term relationship between the general practitioners and
consumers to improve health and the wellbeing of individuals and their families in their lifetime.
The second strategy is integrating health into all sectors. This involves encouraging long-term
relationship provides the avenues of escaping these issues and in turn placing more
accountability on the practice to achieve the care of the consumer, moreover, encourages the role
of the general practitioner (GP) in remote or regional areas as a nurse practitioner and this acts as
an entry to wider systems of health for most people. Also, involves, working together with the
professional organization and primary healthcare to promote multidisciplinary development
teams at which all the members of the team are supported to develop their potential and clinical
skills fully, and this aligns with organizing health services around people expectation and needs a
principle in the world health organization.