Priority Primary Care Centres

The Victoria Government funded PHNs to establish new GP-led Priority Primary Care Centres (PPCCs) to improve access to primary care, particularly in the after-hours period, and ease pressure on emergency departments.

The clinics are supporting nearby hospital emergency departments by providing GP-led care for urgent but non-life-threatening conditions such as mild infections, fractures and burns. They also offer pathology and imaging services onsite or nearby.

Care is available to anyone with or without a Medicare card, at no cost to the patient. (Costs may be required for imaging, pathology and other services.)

There are six centres now open in the Eastern Melbourne PHN catchment.

Translated Fact Sheets

Fact sheets for the PPCCs are now available in the EMPHN catchment's top languages. You can find copies below:

• English
• Italian
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Urdu
• Hindi
• Punjabi
• Greek
• Arabic
• Indonesian

Where to access PPCCs

Download poster for Maroondah PPCC