The PHN is proud to announce that it is supporting Hunter New England and Central Coast General Practices by making available 100 free one-year licenses for the ERPT tool, to strengthen their long-term disaster preparedness and resilience.

The RACGP Standards for General Practice (5th edition) require practices to have a contingency plan for adverse and unexpected events, including pandemics. The Emergency Response Planning Tool (ERPT) is an online resource supporting general practices to effectively plan, prepare, respond, and recover from the impacts of emergencies and disasters.

The grant will consist of a registration link to enable a log in for the annual license which includes access, all management, maintenance and support for 12 months for the ERPT.

The PHN will not continue to fund the ERPT after the 12 months. At the conclusion of the 12 months, general practices can choose to continue to use the ERPT by paying for ongoing licence fees, or they can choose to discontinue the licence and use the pdf plan created as a starting point for their own ongoing plan revisions.

The grants for the licences will be managed via an open round for general practices on the PHN’s grants portal SmartyGrants and awarded on a first in basis to eligible practices. The rounds will close once all 100 ERPT licences have been allocated.

Eligibility

• General Practices in the Hunter New England and Central Coast PHN catchment.
• New users.
• Existing users: Practices who already use the ERPT toolkit are also eligible to apply, and will receive another 12 months on top of their existing license,
• For multisite practices, every practice location can receive one license. Please note that you will need to submit separate applications for each site.
• General Practices that are intending to close or change ownership within the next 12 months are ineligible to apply

• Email: grants@thephn.com.au