About PHCRED

The Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) Strategy is an Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing funded program designed to increase research capacity and to support strategic primary health care research. Funded since 2000, the Strategy is now in Phase 2.

Building on the significant progress made in Phase 1 to "embed a research culture in Australian general practice and primary health care" and the subsequent increase in capacity of the Australian primary health care sector to undertake research, evaluation and development activities, the main performance indicators outlined in PHCRED Strategy Phase 2 (2006-2009) Strategic Plan are:

• An expanded, well-trained and increasingly competitive primary health care research workforce;
• An increase in the number of research projects addressing issues of relevance to primary health care policy and practice;
• The effective dissemination of evidence produced under the Strategy, and increased levels of awareness and uptake among end-users.

Major components of the PHCRED Strategy include:

• The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI)
• The Research Capacity Building Initiative (RCBI)
• A program of Training Awards, and investigator-driven and priority-driven clinical research grants
• The Primary Health Care Research and Information Service (PHCRIS)