Primary Care Impact Grants
The Primary Care Impact Grants Round 4 – are now closed
In 2025, 48 grants were awarded to North Coast Primary Care providers, totalling near $2.35 million.
Throughout 2026, more grant rounds will be held including the existing grant streams of Multidisciplinary Team Care and Chronic Disease Prevention, plus other specialised conditions or regions in focus through more tailored offerings.
Primary Care Impact (PCI) Grants – Supporting Chronic and Complex Disease Management
Healthy North Coast (HNC) is offering grants to support better care for chronic diseases, which are long-term conditions with lasting effects on individuals and communities. These diseases are a leading cause of disability and death in Australia, but nearly 40% of their burden could be prevented by addressing modifiable risk factors and improving disease management.
To support these efforts, Healthy North Coast’s Primary Care Impact Grants provide significant funding for local healthcare providers. These grants focus on two critical areas:
Team-based management: Empowering multidisciplinary care teams to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered support.
Proactive prevention: Reducing the risk of chronic diseases through early intervention and health promotion.
The PCI Grants launched in 2025 with three highly competitive rounds
The details of previous winners are here
Round Four grant programs are closed
The Multidisciplinary Team Care grants will return for more applications later in 2026.
Round 4 – applications closed March 13th. Applicants will be notified of the outcome from May 2026 depending on application volume.
Primary Care Impact Grants – Program Details
Chronic and complex disease
Previously successful applicants for MDT or CDP grants are unable to apply for another CDP grant in Round 4 but are eligible to apply for a Capacity Building in Skin Cancer Early Intervention Grant.
During the evaluation process, if we believe your application may be better suited to a different grant program, we will communicate with you directly.
The Chronic Disease Prevention Grants Program is open to primary care providers working in and around the North Coast region of NSW.
- General Practices/Medical Centres
- Allied health providers (such as physiotherapists, occupational therapist, speech pathologists,
exercise physiologist, podiatrist, dietitian, social worker, psychologist) - Nurse led services
The Capacity Building in Skin Cancer Early Intervention Grant is open to primary care providers that provide skin cancer services, such as general practices. The applicant must be based on the North Coast of NSW, delivering services to the North Coast communities.
For both grants, it is mandatory for eligible general practice applicants that they participate in the Lumos program. Details about the Lumos program are available here. The data gathered and connected via Lumos is invaluable in understanding the effect of interventions in a patient’s health journey. Allied Health Providers and Aboriginal Medical Services are not yet eligible to participate in Lumos and therefore this criteria does not apply.
The Chronic Disease Prevention Grants Program – From a total funding of $1,650,000 (excl. GST), organisations will be able to apply for $20,000 – $50,000 (excl. GST) per grant to support an initiative designed to prevent the future burden of chronic disease and improve health related quality of life in our community.
For the Capacity Building in Skin Cancer Early Intervention Grants, a total funding of $150,000 is available for eligible primary care providers can apply for grants of $10,000-15,000 (excl. GST).
Resources to assist in your application:
Applications are currently closed.
HNC will undertake an evaluation of EOIs, and if necessary, enter into negotiations with the preferred
Participants. The following evaluation criteria will be applied:
Mandatory Evaluation Criteria
Completion of all questions in the application form (Section B: Participant Return Schedules).
These will be evaluated against the Evaluation Rubrics included in Addendum 1 of the Expression of Interest documents
- Financial capacity;
- Required insurances;
- Conflict of Interest details; and
- Signed Acceptance and Declaration
- Read Standard Terms and Conditions
Primary Care Impact Grants – Region specific information to support your application
Healthy North Coast’s Health Needs Assessment has identified the following chronic conditions as the most prevalent in our region:
- Anxiety
- Osteoarthritis
- Asthma
- Depression
- Osteoporosis
- Chronic Heart Disease
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Inflammatory Arthritis
- Stroke
- Renal Failure
- Chronic Kidney Disease
Other high prevalence chronic conditions (such as chronic pain and cancer) are also eligible for these grant programs, as are interventions targeting multimorbidity or polypharmacy.
Priority Populations are groups that are at risk of poorer health outcomes. Healthy North Coast’s identified priority
populations are:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Culturally and linguistically diverse populations
- People with Disabilities
- LGBTQ+
- People exiting prison
- People experiencing domestic and family violence
- People experiencing homelessness
As per the evaluation rubrics, it is not compulsory that your program is targeting a priority population to be eligible, but
programs that are seeking to address known health care inequity are likely to be marked higher.
While chronic conditions are prevalent across the whole region, there are areas that for multiple possible reasons have a higher prevalence of chronic conditions. Particular regions of concern are those with lower socioeconomic status, higher proportions of priority populations or higher average ages of the residents.
Our Health Needs Assessment has identified the following LGAs as those whose residents experience high rates of social
and economic disadvantage:
- Kempsey
- Nambucca Valley
- Richmond Valley
- Clarence Valley
- Kyogle
As with Priority Populations, it is not compulsory to run a program in the area of highest possible need, but evaluation
criteria will mark programs higher that are meeting a need in a location with poorer population health outcomes.
Attend the Industry Briefing
For more information about the grants, attend the industry briefing on 18 February 2026 at 1pm. The one-hour session includes a short program and application presentation followed by Q&A.
Watch the Information Session Webinar
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