The Practice Incentives Program (PIP) encourages general practices to continue providing quality care, enhance their capacity, and improve access and health outcomes for patients.
Seven separate incentives are available:
To be eligible to participate in the PIP, a general practice must meet all of the following requirements:
The Procedural General Practitioner Payment is an incentive to encourage general practitioners (GPs) in rural and remote areas to maintain local access to surgical, anaesthetic and obstetric services.
Procedural general practitioners (GPs) provide non-referred procedural services in a hospital theatre, maternity care setting or other appropriately equipped facility, which in urban areas would normally be a specific referral based specialty.