The roles and responsibilities of the group are to provide high level advice in relation to:

• All policy, planning and implementation activities for the establishment and implementation of the Primary Health Care Partnership Councils at a state wide level;
• All policy, planning and implementation responses to the Government’s agenda on strengthening primary health care though partnerships with the Divisions of General Practice and other non-Government agencies aimed at reducing the burden of chronic disease on the health system;
• Identifying those Partnership Councils eligible for Incentive Program and Innovation funds to deliver initial priorities and initiatives in September, 2007 and then again in March, 2008;
• The review of the 20 Partnership Councils in 2009; and
• Policy, planning and implementation responses to the 2009 review of the Partnership Councils.  

Dr Fiona McGrath (GPQ)
Ms Ann Maree Liddy (GPQ)

Please contact:
Ms Ann Maree Liddy
Chief Executive Officer
General Practice Queensland
info@gpqld.com.au 

www.chicpartnerships.com.au

www.mindmatters.edu.au/states/qld/qld_welcome.html

• To provide expert advise to relevant Queensland and Commonwealth government agencies responsible for implementing the initiatives announced in the National Action Plan on Mental Health 2006-2011;
• To ensure that implementation is progressed in a way that optimises outcomes for people with mental illness in Queensland, minimises duplication and service gaps and improves access for mental health consumers to the broad range of community services and social supports.

Ms Ann Maree Liddy (GPQ)

Please contact:
Mr David Millichap
Senior Program Leader – eHealth
General Practice Queensland
dmillichap@gpqld.com.au

Perinatal and infant mental health is a key action area for Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention under the Queensland Plan for Mental Health 2007-2017 and as such the Statewide Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Advisory Group has been established.

The Advisory Group focuses on mental health issues in the antenatal and perinatal periods and on the mental health and development of infants and young children 0-5 years and the mental health of their families.

www.health.qld.gov.au/mentalhealth/

GPQ is also represented on a number of the Queensland Statewide Mental Health Network subgroups:

• Rural and Remote – Ms Lindy Fentiman (GPQ)
• Community – Ms Michelle Underhill (GPQ)
• Alcohol, Other Drugs and Mental Health Collaboration – Ms Cathy Beck (GPQ)
• Eating disorders – Ms Cathy Beck (GPQ)