Our vision is to shape a healthy future for all northern Queenslanders

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) works to improve health outcomes by connecting care, supporting primary health providers, and commissioning services where they’re needed most.

We support over 700,000 people across the Torres and Cape, Cairns, Townsville, and Mackay regions.

Our core functions are

Commissioning

Commissioning targeted services that respond to local health challenges and opportunities.

Capacity building

Strengthening the primary healthcare workforce and supporting innovation, data and quality improvement, business sustainability, and reform.

Coordinating

Coordinating and connecting care across the system to improve access as well as patient and provider experiences.

Our priorities are health equity healthy system healthy workforce healthy intelligence healthy organisation healthy communities

In northern Queensland, we have:

residents
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Indigenous people (10.8% of our population and 10.3% of total Australian Indigenous population) Source: Queensland Health
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Hospital and Health Services (HHS)
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NQPHN region area
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Local Government Areas (LGAs). 22 out of 31 LGAs have people living in very remote areas
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We have over 90 staff operating
across three offices in:

Cairns

Gimuy-Walubura Yidinji and
Djabugay Nation country

Townsville

Bindal and Wulgurukaba country

Mackay

Yuwibara country

Our region, our people

Meet the faces of North Queensland. The Our region, our people good news stories highlight service providers and service users of NQPHN-funded programs.