Benefits to participating GPs include:

Empowered

• Receive a customised report with unique insights about your patients.
• Understand the characteristics of your patient population in the context of your region and state.
• Identify opportunities to inform your practice operations.
• Understand the NSW health services that your patients access outside of your practice.
• Support your data driven quality improvement initiatives.

Included

• Contribute to a data asset to inform health system improvement and planning.
• Highlight the value of primary care.
• Receive ongoing Primary Health Network (PHN) support.

Current

• Updated reports are currently provided every 6 months.
• Reports are continually improved based on GP feedback.

Effortless

• Practices can participate at no cost.
• If the minimum technical requirements are met, data extraction is automated and does not impact the operation of your practice.
• Individual practice consent is not required.

Secure

• Secure systems and processes, that have undergone an independent privacy impact assessment, in line with best practice.
• Patient data is de-identified before it leaves the practice, minimising privacy risks.

Trusted

• Ethically approved by the NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee.
• Long-standing program, grown since 2016 to include over 390 participating general practices across NSW.
• Strong data and program governance and stakeholder representation, including GPs and representative bodies, health consumers, NSW Health and PHNs.

"Lumos provides us with significant insights into how our patients interact with the health system outside of our own practice and how we compare to similar practices, across a variety of different indicators. This has allowed us to focus our quality improvement processes where they're most needed. The linkage process was simple and required minimal intervention following the initial setup."

Dr Nuwan Dharmaratne - Hills Family GP