About us
The Bendigo Loddon Primary Care Partnership is a network of health and community service organisations and local governments in the City of Greater Bendigo and the Loddon Shire. This group of organisations formed a voluntary alliance in 2000 to improve the health and wellbeing of people in the area by working in partnership with one another. Our Partnership covers a broad landscape, encompassing the two Local Government areas of Greater Bendigo and Loddon and 9,700 square kilometres of rural and regional Victoria. We provide services to over 108,000 people within our catchment.
Our Partnership exists only through the commitment and involvement of our member organisations.
The Values of Our Partnership
The work of our Partnership rests on a foundation of shared values including:
- Relationships are based on respect and trust
- Cooperation and collaboration
- Shared information and evidence-based practice
- Equity of all members of our Partnership
- Ethical conduct with the prime outcome of each decision being the effectiveness of the primary health care service system
- Participatory decision making
- Integrated planning for community and individual wellbeing
- Planned and coordinated service delivery
- Transparency and accountability to each other
- Privacy and confidentiality
The Vision of Our Partnership
To work in partnership to improve, enhance and maintain the health and wellbeing of our communities.
The Strategic Goal of Our Partnership
Our Partnerships will foster the mental health and wellbeing of our community, promote positive lifestyles and ensure that principles of social inclusion are embedded in our work.
Priority Population Groups for Our Partnership
To work in partnership to improve, enhance and maintain the health and wellbeing of our communities.Our Partnerships will foster the mental health and wellbeing of our community, promote positive lifestyles and ensure that principles of social inclusion are embedded in our work. To work in partnership to improve, enhance and maintain the health and wellbeing of our communities.Our Partnerships will foster the mental health and wellbeing of our community, promote positive lifestyles and ensure that principles of social inclusion are embedded in our work. Over the next three years our Partnership will focus on improving the health and wellbeing of:
- Children and young people (0-25 years)
- Aboriginal people
- Older people (aged 55+)
Health Promotion Priorities for Our Partnership
Over the next three years our Partnership will focus on integrated health promotion on the following issues:
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Physical activity and active communities
- Reducing tobacco related hearm
- Sexual and reproductive health
Chronic Disease Priority for Our Partnership