Guidelines for the establishment and initial operation of Medicare Locals

The Commonwealth Government is establishing Medicare Locals to drive improvements in primary health care and ensure that primary health care services are better tailored to meet the needs to local communities. Medicare Locals will be primary health care organisations, established to coordinate primary health care delivery to address local health care needs and service gaps.
These guidelines take into account submissions received on the Medicare Locals Discussion Paper on Governance and Functions released on 29 October 2010 on the yourHealth website and views of other key stakeholders.