Primary Care Support
Primary Care Advancement Team
The Sydney North Health Network’s (SNHN) Primary Care Advancement Team (PCAIT) is an experienced group of primary care experts that are working with GPs, practice nurses, practice managers and practice staff to help better the patient experience so that patients receive the right care, in the right place at the right time.
What support we can provide
The team promotes patient-centred, integrated care and can support practices in a variety of areas including:
- Integrated Care
- Lumos – GP Data Linkage Project
- Person-Centred Care Program
- PRODA registration
- PRODA delegation
- Quality Improvement Initiatives and PIP QI
- Dementia Quality Improvement
- Cancer Screening Quality Improvement
- Heart Health Quality Improvement
- Templates
- Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities
- Hot Topics newsletters – view past issues
Meet the team
The Primary Care Advancement Team members are:
- Sue Barry (Primary Care Advancement Manager)
- Kim Kindler
- Hema Patel
- Pat Simmonds
- Shilpa Ladhe
- Suruchi Pandey
- Cheryl Uren
- Jenny Hughes
- Pai Mangwiro
To speak to a member of the PCAIT team, please contact Sydney North Health Network on (02) 9432 8250 or email pcait@snhn.org.au
Benefits for the Practice
Working together with the PCAIT provides:
- Access to an experienced team of Primary Care Advancement Coordinators available to respond to a broad range of practice support needs.
- Opportunity to engage with training and quality improvement activity.
- Timely communication of opportunities to work together on innovative models, in support of primary care service integration, coordination and improving patient-centred experience.