About the Awards

The MPHN Primary Healthcare Awards are an opportunity to recognise the valuable work in primary healthcare across the Murrumbidgee region.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is a not-for-profit organisation servicing more than 252,000 thousand people, living across 508 communities on a land mass of 126,124 square kilometres. It is one of 31 local and independent PHNs established nationally to support the primary healthcare sector and improve health outcomes, particularly for those at-risk populations.

MPHN achieves this by understanding the region’s health needs to inform:

  • funding services to meet population health needs;

  • integrating local services and systems and improve coordination of care; and

  • supporting the development of a local sustainable health care workforce through quality improvement and professional development.

PHNs have seven key priority areas guiding their work including:

  • mental health;

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health;

  • population health;

  • health workforce;

  • digital heath;

  • aged care; and

  • alcohol and other drugs.