Approximately one third of health spending in Australia is for primary care. This fact sheet provides insights and data relating to access to primary care in Gippsland, Victoria. It presents information on community and professional perspectives, billing methods and funding, health workforce limitations and opportunities for improvement.

Access to primary care is key to health equity and it is shaped by many connected factors:

• services matching community need
• cost of primary care
• socioeconomic status
• geographic location
• systems that support access
• health workforce availability.