What is the Nepean GP Network?

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General Practitioners (GPs) are the linch pin to Primary Heath Care. They are there to provide you with advice when you are ill and also help to maintain your health.

Have you ever wondered how local GPs keep up to date with new information? Where they access support for their practice? How they communicate with each other or how they represent themselves on issues that influence their work? 

The GP Network is a Not-For-Profit organisation that provides a link between GPs and consumers along with other health professionals and services, eg.Primary Health Network (PHN),  hospitals, community health centres, and other health professionals.

The Nepean GP Network evolved from the Nepean Division of General Practice to provide an independent voice and an identity for local GPs. It provides support for GPs and allow GPs to band together on issues rather than work alone. We are able to identify local community health needs and support GPs to address these needs.

​About the Nepean GP Network

The purposes for which the NGPN association is formed are:
  1. To educate, promote and advocate for the professional interests of medical practitioners in general practice.
  2. To promote the control or prevention of disease in human beings to the community and General Practice
  3. To further the delivery of quality general practice to the community;
  4. To facilitate general practice access to good quality local education, support for practice management, and local general practice relevant programs.
  5. To build the capacity of general practice to provide optimum primary health care to the community;
  6. To provide the infrastructure to enable better communication for general medical practitioners among themselves, other health care providers and other stakeholders in primary health care.
  7. To enable the best possible integrated health care to the community, and enable general practice input into local health planning; and
  8. To be a conduit between general practice and government, and enable general practice advocacy around policy and developments at State and Federal government levels.

​About Consumers

We value our local consumers.
  1. Consumers are users of healthcare services.
  2. They include our patients, their carers and family members along with members of our community.
  3. The NGPN know that our consumers have invaluable knowledge about life,  their community and health needs. They are therefore able to help us identify issues effecting the health of our community and the best ways of having effective prevention measures and health education.
  4. Consistent engagement and partnerships with members of our community is necessary to make sure that what we consider and do meets community needs and expectations.
  5. To ensure this, we have a Consumer Reference Group (CRG) made up of and covering the broad demographics of the Penrith LGA.
  6. Our CRG:
          (a) Is involved in our Strategic Planning
          (b) Reports directly to the Board
          (c) Is a member of State and National                     Consumer peak bodies
          (d) Contributes to discussions on
          health issues
          (e) Has an independent voice on
​          Health issues

About Us

Contact Us

Phone: 02 4734 8556
office@nepeangpnet.org.au