The PIP Quality Improvement (QI) Incentive commenced on 1 August 2019.

It’s a payment to general practices that participate in quality improvement activities to improve patient outcomes and deliver best practice care.

There are two components a general practice needs to meet to qualify for a PIP QI Incentive payment:

1. Participate in Continuous Quality Improvement

The PIP QI Incentive rewards practices for participating in continuous quality improvement activities in partnership with their local Primary Health Network (PHN). Practices may focus their quality improvement activities on specified Improvement Measures. There are no set targets for the Improvement Measures. Alternatively, practices can choose to focus their activities on other areas. These areas must be informed by their clinical information system data and meet the needs of their practice population.

2. Provide the PIP Eligible Data Set to your local PHN

The PIP Eligible Data Set is the data collected against specified Improvement Measures.

General practices must submit to their local PHN on a quarterly basis the PIP Eligible Data Set from their general practice clinical information system. PHNs will use the de-identified data to provide feedback to general practices. This will help the practices identify key priority areas and quality improvement activities.

To understand the PIP QI requirements and PIP data governance arrangements, please refer to the following documents:

Guidelines

• PIP QI Guidelines (PDF 545 KB)
• PIP QI Guidelines (Word 110 KB)
• Improvement Measures (PDF 216 KB)
• Improvement Measures (Word 90 KB)

Fact Sheet and Q&As

• PIP QI Fact Sheet - What practices need to know (PDF 186 KB)
• PIP QI Fact Sheet - What practices need to know (Word 80 KB)
• PIP QI FAQs (PDF 150 KB)
• PIP QI FAQs (Word 79 KB)
• PIP QI Who do I ask (PDF 99 KB)
• PIP QI Who do I ask (Word 93 KB)
• PIP QI Fact Sheet - ACCHS and other IAHP funded organisations (PDF 116 KB)
• PIP QI Fact Sheet - ACCHS and other IAHP funded organisations (Word 73 KB)
• PIP QI Fact Sheet – Consumer (PDF 38 KB)
• PIP QI Fact Sheet – Consumer (Word 65 KB)

User Guides

• PIP QI – User Guide for Primary Health Networks (PDF 653 KB)
• PIP QI – User Guide for Primary Health Networks (Word 118 KB)
• PIP QI – User Guide for General Practices (PDF 1445 KB)
• PIP QI – User Guide for General Practices (Word 511 KB)

Data Governance and Privacy

• PIP Eligible Data Set Data Governance Framework (PDF 275 KB)
• PIP Eligible Data Set Data Governance Framework (Word 100 KB)
• PIP QI Privacy and Security Review Summary and Recommendations (PDF 347 KB)
• PIP QI Privacy and Security Review Summary and Recommendations (Word 79 KB)

Technical Specifications

• PIP QI - Annotated Specifications (PDF 143 KB)
• PIP QI - Annotated Specifications (Word 93 KB)
• PIP QI - Technical Specifications (PDF 685 KB)
• PIP QI - Technical Specifications (Word 121 KB)
• PIP Eligible Data Set – JSON File Specification (PDF 88 KB)
• PIP Eligible Data Set – JSON File Specification (Word 19 KB)

Note: to request a copy of the PIP Eligible Data Set Sample JSON File please contact: PracticeSupport@health.gov.au