National Consistent Payments Framework

About the NCP framework

In February 2023, we introduced the National Consistent Payments (NCP) to provide financial support to Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) program participants:

supervisors
practices
registrars.

Salary Support payments to AGPT registrars training in Aboriginal Medical Services are also delivered through the NCP framework.

Indexation will be applied to all NCP payments (registrar, supervisor, practices, practices-salary support) from semester one 2026.

The NCP Framework is designed to reduce red tape, promote accountability, and enhance transparency in GP training. This will benefit supervisors, practices, and registrars while also attracting medical doctors to regional, rural, and remote areas.

Key objectives include:

Ensuring transparency and consistency in payments to supervisors, practices, and registrars; and
Clarifying financial support for training in rural and remote areas.

To read more on receiving payments and to determine your eligibility for different payment levels, see the NCP Framework and NCP Guidelines.

NCP Framework commenced 2023
NCP Guidelines commenced 2023.

Updated NCP Framework and Guidelines for Semester 1, 2026 will be published prior to 1 January 2026.

Updates from semester 2, 2025

We have updated all NCP documents to provide clarity around training terms and support payments.

The updates were made in consultation with the GP colleges. This will give AGPT participants a better understanding of how fair and equitable full-time equivalent payments are calculated. This includes:

pro-rata payments for registrars training part-time
payments for registrars training across multiple MM locations
case scenarios to show how payments are calculated
a glossary to explain the terminology used in GP training.

Note: For registrars training in different MM locations in a training term, the updates may have separate payments rather than one payment in advance.

To see how this may affect your payments, please refer to the new documents that take effect in Semester 2, 2025. For impacted participants, please contact your college to learn how they may be able to further support you with flexible payments.

NCP Framework commencing Semester 2, 2025
NCP Guidelines commencing Semester 2, 2025

How to apply for NCP payments

Eligibility for payments are assessed by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). They use the NCP framework to determine the payments for participants. Services Australia make the payments on behalf of Health.

In addition to the payments made by Services Australia, the colleges can make additional support payments under a flexible payments pool to support participants in rural and remote areas.

Learn how to register on the Services Australia online payment system to receive payments under the NCP framework.

Read the NCP guidelines and the NCP fact sheet.

Stakeholder consultation

To prepare for the start of the college-led AGPT program and NCP payments in 2023, stakeholder consultation was carried out through a series of workshops. The stakeholders included: