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Discover Gold Coast Primary Health Network's (GCPHN's) First Nations Health Equity Strategy and our efforts to support equitable access to high-quality primary health care and improved health and wellbeing.
Gold Coast Primary Health Network’s (GCPHN’s) First Nations Health Equity Strategy sets out how we will work – alongside First Nations people and key partners – to support equitable access to high-quality primary health care and improved health and wellbeing for First Nations peoples across our region.
Our strategy has been developed based on Gold Coast Health’s First Nations Health Equity Strategy (2025–2028) and the South-East Queensland First Nations Health Equity Strategy 2021–31 led by the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH). By adopting the same six key result and priority areas, we can strengthen collaboration, align activity across the system, and support more transparent reporting and accountability at a local Gold Coast level.
Our strategy is organised under six key result and priority areas:
Across our priority areas, we’ve identified practical actions that will be implemented across GCPHN and with partners. Examples include establishing robust governance, co-designing a workplan with partners, developing an annual calendar of initiatives, strengthening culturally-safe commissioning approaches, and improving measurement and reporting to support accountability.
Our strategy will be reviewed every three years and refined to reflect emerging policies, priorities and opportunities, ensuring First Nations feedback and local needs are integrated over time. Performance will be monitored, with progress against indicators reported annually. Year 1 focuses on establishing benchmark data to inform performance and outcomes for subsequent years.
As a PHN, our First Nations Health Equity Strategy has been developed alongside our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) 2025–2027. This was endorsed by Reconciliation Australia and launched earlier this year, with alignment across relationships, respect, opportunities and governance.
Our management has also proposed consultation with our RAP Committee about how RAP activities and measures can be embedded into our strategy reporting (rather than running parallel processes).
Download: First Nations Health Equity Strategy 2025–2028
Contact: ceo@gcphn.com.au
Related: Reconciliation Action Plan
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