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Twenty (20) national peak health organisations representing over 100,000 frontline health professionals working in the primary health care sector have come together to form the National Primary Health Care Partnership (NPHCP). The National Primary Health Care Partnership aims to provide an advocacy body and communications platform for the Australian Primary Health Care sector.

This advocacy body provides a central point of contract for information about and input into the delivery of primary heatlh care services in Australia.

The National Primary Health Care Partnership is working towards a primary health care system that works for the people who need and use it.

It calls on the Australian Government to develop and implement a National Primary Health Care Policy, providing coordinated, evidence based, safe primary health care services delivered by multidisciplinary health care teams and accessable by all Australian irrespective of geographic, social, economic or cultural background.

Declaration of Alma-Ata
The members of the National Primary Health Care Partnership endorse the Declaration statements from the International Conference on Primary Health Care made on the 12 September 1978, the Alma-Ata.