Close the Gap
Free, for the services doing the hardest work
Conference.care is provided at no charge to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services, Aboriginal Medical Centres and Indigenous health practitioners — because the communities carrying the heaviest burden of chronic disease should not be the ones paying to coordinate care.
Why it matters
The gap is a chronic disease gap
Most of the life expectancy gap is made of exactly the conditions case conferencing was designed for: diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney disease, mental health, and the way they compound.
lower life expectancy for First Nations males born 2020–2022, at 71.9 years against 80.6.
the rate of total disease burden carried by First Nations people compared with non-Indigenous Australians.
the year the National Agreement commits to closing the life expectancy gap — a generation from 2020.
What we do
The platform, the coordination and the team — at no cost
Aboriginal Medical Centres and Indigenous health services use Conference.care on exactly the same terms as any other practice, except that we waive our fee entirely. Nothing is limited, nothing is trialled and there is no term.
Our team does the recruiting as well. If the endocrinologist, psychologist or dietitian a patient needs isn't available locally, we find one and bring them into the conference by video — so the care plan is built with the community's clinicians, not around them.
How it runs
Culturally safe, and led from the community
The service leads
The community's own GP or Aboriginal Health Practitioner convenes the conference, chooses who joins, and keeps the relationship with the patient. We never sit between them.
We bring the team
Specialists and allied health join by video from wherever they are, so a patient is not asked to travel for a conversation about their own care.
Medicare covers the clinicians
Participating clinicians claim the MBS case conferencing items as usual. The patient is never charged, and neither is the service.
Free of charge, for as long as it is needed
This is not a pilot or a discount. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services and Indigenous health practitioners use Conference.care without a fee, permanently.
Get in touch
Talk to us about your service
Tell us which clinicians your patients need and we will go and find them. No cost, no contract.