Stronger
together
Annual Report
2025-26
Secured to expand multidisciplinary mental health care across 21 LGAs
Invested in 24 locally led community wellbeing and suicide prevention projects
People across 15 towns shared their experiences through Conversations on the Couch
Invest in communities for improved health outcomes
Strong communities are built when people can access the right care, information and support – and have a voice in shaping what that looks like.
Throughout 2025-2026, MPHN invested in initiatives responding directly to the needs of people across the Murrumbidgee. From listening to communities and strengthening prevention to improving mental health, women’s health, healthy ageing, First Nations health and suicide prevention, the focus was on making care more accessible, connected and responsive.
Together, these investments put local needs, voices and outcomes at the centre of healthier communities.
HealthPathways page views from 371 users across the Murrumbidgee
General practices supported to understand and implement major national primary care reforms
Registrations for the inaugural BidgeeCon, bringing high-quality professional development closer to home
Support providers and enhance collaboration for stronger primary care
Strong primary healthcare depends on a skilled, connected and supported workforce. Throughout 2025-2026, MPHN worked alongside general practice, allied health, aged care and other providers to build capability, strengthen collaboration and help the workforce navigate a changing health system.
This section captures that work in action: supporting practices through national reform, building stronger allied health networks, bringing professional development closer to home through BidgeeCon, expanding practical clinical guidance through HealthPathways and using digital health to improve information sharing and continuity of care.
Across each initiative, the focus was on giving providers the knowledge, tools, relationships and support they need to deliver better care across the Murrumbidgee.
of Murrumbidgee general practices now contribute data to LUMOS
Occasions of service delivered to 168 children through Waratah for Kids
Patient reviews and 315+ hours of direct clinical care delivered through Summer Strategy nurse-led clinics
Lead innovation and inspire for positive impact
Innovation in the Murrumbidgee is about finding better ways to deliver care – and using evidence, research and local knowledge to understand what will make the greatest difference.
During 2025-2026, MPHN worked with providers and partners to redesign paediatric, diabetes and chronic disease care, expand nurse-led models and make better use of the skills already within the primary care workforce. At the same time, growing health intelligence capability through initiatives such as LUMOS is providing a richer picture of how people move through the health system, helping identify gaps, anticipate need and inform future healthcare investment.
The work captured in this section shows innovation at different stages, from understanding the problem and testing new approaches to sharing successful regional ideas on the national stage.
Organisations and providers commissioned to deliver services across the Murrumbidgee
of employees would recommend MPHN as a great place to work
Active Local Health Advisory Committees, involving more than 180 community volunteers across the Murrumbidgee
Strategic enablers
Delivering better health outcomes depends on more than programs and services. It requires strong people, systems, partnerships and governance working behind the scenes to turn strategy into action.
During 2025-2026, MPHN invested in these foundations: commissioning services around identified regional need, investing in its workforce, embedding inclusion and reconciliation into everyday business and achieving an important milestone in information security.
Partnerships with communities, providers and regional organisations continued to bring local knowledge into planning and decision-making, helping MPHN remain responsive to regional needs and a changing health system.
This section shows the organisational capability that enables MPHN to remain responsive, accountable and equipped to deliver on its purpose.
We acknowledge and pay respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which MPHN operates; the Wiradjuri, Nari Nari, Wemba Wemba, Perepa Perepa, Yorta Yorta, Ngunnawal, Ngarigo, Bangerang and Yitha Yitha Nations. We recognise our communities are made up of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples descended from additional mobs and clans who also call the Murrumbidgee region home.
We pay respect to elders past, present and future and recognise these lands have always been places of traditional healing and medicine, and this plays a role in shaping future health services.
firsthealth Limited trading as Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) (ABN 15 111 520 168).
Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support from the Department of Health and Aged Care. The Primary Health Networks Program is an Australian Government Initiative.
While the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has contributed to the funding of this material, the information contained in it does not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government and is not advice that is provided, or information that is endorsed by, the Australian Government. The Australian Government is not liable in negligence or otherwise for any injury, loss or damage however arising from the use of or reliance on the information provided in this material.