Gippsland Primary Health Network (PHN) is seeking tender submissions from suitable organisations or individuals to gather community input from specified vulnerable communities across Gippsland's six Local Government Areas.

Gippsland PHN is one of 31 Primary Health Networks established around Australia to co-ordinate primary health care delivery throughout their local areas, meet local health care needs and fill service delivery gaps. Gippsland's population is growing and changing. Health professionals are facing the constant challenge of providing quality health care and services to their many clients.

Gippsland PHN aims to strengthen primary health care systems, improving their integration and coordination, underpinned by the social model of health recognising the importance of social and economic determinants of health and wellbeing for disease prevention.

Gippsland PHN is governed by a skills based Board of nine directors with five elected by Gippsland PHN members and four appointed by the Board. Gippsland PHN has over 200 members across the region from organisations delivering primary health care services, organisations representing primary health care providers and primary health care clinicians.

Gippsland PHN administers a range of programs including Partners in Recovery (PIR), Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS), Mental Health Nurse In Practice (MHNIP), as well as services via Place Based Flexible Funding. Central to the effectiveness and efficiency of service provision is the capacity for those services to be coordinated, integrated and easily accessed. A key consideration in achieving this is identifying needs in the community, especially of the most vulnerable.