Programs and Projects

Healthy North Coast delivers a range of initiatives designed to:

  • enhance the quality of care provided to patients
  • build capacity within the local health workforce, and
  • improve the overall experience of our health system.

Our portfolio of health programs and projects include those that are being delivered in partnership through our health system and service integration teams.

Community and clinician consultation directly informs our program design work.

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North Coast Collective

This shared approach involves joint planning and priority setting, shared resourcing, and a commitment to pursuing the best return on investment for health outcomes.

HealthPathways

Our Mid and North Coast HealthPathways is like a ‘care map’, so that all members of a health care team, whether they work in a hospital or the community, can be on the same page when it comes to looking after a particu...

Health Literacy

The Northern NSW Health Literacy Project is working on improving communication from health professionals and health services to ensure health information and services are easy to access, understand and act on.

Suicide Prevention

The NCPHN is part of 12 lead site PHNs who are working closely with the black dog institute and their ‘Lifespan’ model.

Primary mental health services for people with severe mental illness

The Link-Me trial is a trial funded by the Department of Health and is working closely with the University of Melbourne which seeks to identify greater avenues for complex mental health care in general practice.

Our Healthy Clarence Completed

Over the past 18 months, North Coast Primary Health Network (NCPHN) and Northern NSW Local Health District has worked alongside community members, Clarence Valley Council, community services and health professionals to develop a p...

Centre for Healthcare Knowledge & Innovation

Healthy North Coast Is a Proud Partner of the Centre for Healthcare Knowledge & Innovation. Healthy North Coast established the Centre for Healthcare Knowledge & Innovation (the Centre) in 2016 with the aim of advancing ca...

Community Voices Completed

The Community Voices program is designed to empower and connect residents in small towns and isolated communities across the North Coast of NSW. Established in 2014, the vision for the program is to build the capacity of small t...

Clinician Engagement

NCPHN maintains strong engagement with over 4,000 North Coast primary health care professionals through a range of mechanisms...

Community Engagement

Community engagement ensures community members have a say in decisions that affect them. Without valuable community discussion, NCPHN cannot achieve meaningful health reform.

Digital Health

Learn more about Digital Health and My Health Record with useful information and guides to help you embrace technology within healthcare.

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Healthy North Coast acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands across our region and pays respect to the Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise these lands were never ceded and acknowledge the continuation of culture and connection to land, sky and sea. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s First Peoples and honour the rich diversity of the world’s oldest living culture.

Healthy North Coast is an independent, not-for-profit organisation proudly delivering the PHN program in North Coast NSW. We are committed to improving the health of our communities through quality primary health care.
The PHN program is an Australian Government Initiative.
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Mental Health Practitioner Directory

Frequently Asked Questions

Any AHPRA or AASW registered mental health practitioner providing services in the Mid North Coast and/or Northern NSW.

By listing, you will let GPs, other referrers and consumers know that you are practising in Mid North Coast and/or Northern NSW. You can provide information such as where you are located, the services you provide, the population groups you support and your clinical interests.

No, the directory is a free service provided by Healthy North Coast.

This directory enables you to provide real-time information about your availability to accept referrals, as well as how long people may have to wait for an appointment. You can update this information as your availability changes. This will help GPs and other referrers ensure they only refer clients to practitioners who have the capacity to see them.

It also has a range of advanced search options and supports printing and bookmarking of search results.

You can choose to display your email address and your phone number so that people can contact you directly. You may prefer not to display these, in which case people can contact you by completing an enquiry form located in the Directory. Your choices can be updated anytime.

You can indicate wait times for an appointment for a new client or that you are currently unable to accept new referrals. You can also choose whether to display or hide your contact details. You can update your choices at any time.

Yes, you can update your listing or remove it at any time by clicking the “update practitioner details” button on your listing. You will receive a secure website link to your nominated admin email that will enable you to make changes, delete or put your listing on hold. You can also show when you are taking extended leave or are not available for a specific period, rather than completely removing your listing.

We will also send you an email every three months (90 days) prompting you to check that your information is up to date.

You will be responsible for managing the information in your listing and ensuring that it is up to date. You will also be asked to check the information before it is published in the directory.

We will also send you an email every three months (90 days) prompting you to check that your information is up to date so that the directory displays accurate information.

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