Murray PHN Needs Assessment 2025-26 to 2027-28

Thank you for your interest in accessing our latest Needs Assessment, last updated November 2025. Needs Assessments are a key deliverable for all PHNs to the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. They are the outcome of a comprehensive process of identifying and understanding the health and service needs across local PHN catchments and include data from multiple sources, consultations and surveys with service providers and people with lived and living experience. We hope that you find the report both insightful and useful.

Last Update: January 6th, 2026

Murray PHN acknowledges its catchment crosses over many unceded First Nations Countries, following the Dhelkunya Yaluk (Healing River).

We pay our respects and give thanks to the Ancestors, Elders and Young people for their nurturing, protection and caregiving of these sacred lands and waterways, acknowledging their continuing cultural, spiritual and educational practices.

We are grateful for the sharing of Country and the renewal that Country gives us. We acknowledge and express our sorrow that this sharing has come at a personal, spiritual and cultural cost to the wellbeing of First Nations peoples. We commit to addressing the injustices of colonisation across our catchment, and to listening to the wisdom of First Nations communities who hold the knowledge to enable healing. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.