In the 1999 Federal Government budget the Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) Package was launched. The goal of the Package is to improve the health and quality of life of older Australians and people with chronic conditions, who have multi-disciplinary care needs. This will be achieved through enhancing the quality of primary health care provided to these population groups.
National Evaluation Report
The Department of Health and Ageing commissioned a national evaluation of the EPC GP Education, Support and Community Linkages Program (GPESCL) and the EPC Items during 2001 and 2002. The independent evaluation was headed by Professor David Wilkinson, University of South Australia. Kathy Mott was the project manager. For the report visit the DoHA website: http://www.health.gov.au/epc/epcevaluation.htm
GPDV State Evaluation
During 2001 and 2002, GPDV commissioned a state evaluation of the Victorian roll out of the GPESCL program. The state evaluation looked at three key questions:
- What have been the effects of the train the trainer model? How has the training been implemented by Divisions with what effects?
- In what ways are divisions working with other agencies and providers to use the items in addressing specific clinical and service delivery problems.
- Are there any groups of GPs (perhaps based on division, culture, SES, rurality etc.) where uptake has been low? Are there individuals within these groups who have had high uptake from whom lessons can be learnt on behalf of the whole group?
For a full report please click here to download the evaluation. 
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