Title: Incentives for Primary health Care team service provision: Systematic Narrative Literature Review.

Funding body: Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI)

Chief Investigators: 

Dr Lucio Naccarella, PhD, AHWI, The University of Melbourne

Professor Tony Scott, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Dr John Furler, Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne

Dr Kathryn Dwan, PhD, Academic Unit of General Practice & Community Health, The Australian National University

Research Assistants:

Georgia Savage, AHWI

Roz Meredith, AHWI

Fleur Smith, General Practice Victoria

Summary:

Governments internationally and in Australia are increasingly encouraging linkages, collaboration and specifically teamwork between primary care providers and with other health care sectors, using various incentive approaches. This is in response to concerns about quality of care; increasing burden of complex and chronic diseases, and workforce shortages. This project is designed to conduct a systematic narrative literature review of incentive ‘approaches’ driving or creating barriers to successful primary health care team service provision in four English-speaking comparator countries (NZ, Canada, UK, USA) and one European country (Netherlands).