Primary Health Network
Property Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Property |
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METEOR identifier: | 611074 |
Registration status: | National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | An identifier for a Primary Health Network. A Primary Health Network is an administrative health region established to deliver access to primary care services for patients, as well as co-ordinate with local hospitals in order to improve the overall operational efficiency of the network. Primary Health Network have a number of key roles in improving primary health care services for communities, by PHNs will work directly with GPs, other primary health care providers, secondary care providers, hospitals and the broader community to ensure improved outcomes for patients. There are six key priorities for targeted work in;
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Property group: | Identifier characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | The Department of Health, Primary Health Networks, Canberra. Viewed 03 June 2015, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/primary_Health_Networks |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Primary Health Network identifier Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 |
Data Element Concepts implementing this property: |