About us – Upper Hume Primary Care Partnership

In May 2022, Upper Hume Primary Care Partnership joined with the Ovens Murray Public Health Unit (OM PHU).

This brings significant benefits to both organisations.

More information about OM PHU and its priorities can be found by clicking here

Our purpose

You can see a list of PCPs at health.vic.gov.au

Our purpose is to provide a platform to bring community and service providers together. We focus on prevention and we support the delivery of an integrated and responsive system enhancing wellbeing outcomes for our communities.

UHPCP will participate in an initiative WHEN:

it requires multiple organisations to work collaboratively
it involves collaborative work regarding the Social Determinants of Health
the activity will result in system improvement
it requires advocacy for consumers and community to enable their participation
by invitation, or initiated by UHPCP.

WHY will UHPCP participate?

As an impetus for action/collaboration
If it provides an opportunity to influence an innovative approach
To enable organisations to look beyond their own ‘space’ in relation to a specific issue/challenge
To utilise the specific skills of UHPCP staff
To provide a strategic lens to a collaborative approach—a helicopter view
To build capacity/to enable
To engage necessary, but reluctant, organisations.

What role might UHPCP play?

Lead agency
Consortium member
Initiator
Funder/part funder
Provider of framework/structure
Backbone organisation (as described in the Collective Impact Framework)
Responsibility for specific component thus capacity building (e.g. evaluation)
Capacity building.

Our vision

An integrated primary health system reflecting a collaborative approach and delivering improved population health and wellbeing outcomes.

The principles under which the UHPCP operates are:

Who we are

UHPCP has both executive members and ordinary members.

Membership is open to any organisation or network who is engaged in working collaboratively to address challenges to ensuring the wellbeing of our communities.

Current membership includes:

Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service
Albury-Wodonga Diabetes Support Group
Albury Wodonga Ethnic Communities Council
Albury Wodonga Health
Beechworth Health Service
Corryong Health
Gateway Health
Indigo North Health
Indigo Shire Council
Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation
Northeast Health Wangaratta
Tallangatta Health Service
Towong Shire Council
Upper Murray Regional Neighbourhood House Network
Walwa Bush Nursing Centre
Wodonga City Council
Women’s Health Goulburn North East
Yackandandah Health.

Current board members:

David Noonan—CEO, Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service
Janet Chapman—Deputy CEO, Albury Wodonga Health
Mark Ashcroft—CEO, Beechworth Health Service
Dominic Sandilands—CEO, Corryong Health
Leigh Rhode—CEO, Gateway Health
Vicki Pitcher—CEO, Tallangatta Health Service.

Our Executive Officer is Dr Kathleen Brasher.

Our staff members bring specialised skills to the team, including in the areas of age-friendly communities, integration of family violence service system response, engagement and participation, and communications.

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