Ccq - Country To Coast Qld

What Ccq - Country To Coast Qld does

Country to Coast Queensland (CCQ), legally Sunshine Coast Health Network Ltd, is an Australian Primary Health Network (PHN) and non-profit company limited by guarantee headquartered in Maroochydore, with offices in Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, and Rockhampton. CCQ commissions and coordinates primary and preventive health services across three sub-regions — Central Queensland, Wide Bay, and the Sunshine Coast — funded principally through the Australian Government PHN Program. The organisation works as a regional convener, commissioning general practitioners, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), and non-government providers to deliver mental health, drug and alcohol, aged care, disability, chronic disease, child and family, multicultural, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programs.

Operationally, CCQ maintains a portfolio of digital and program platforms rather than direct clinical infrastructure, including the unified HealthPathways platform (a clinical referral and management decision-support tool covering all three regions), Primary Sense (a population-health and cardiovascular disease decision-support tool used by general practices), regional Health and Climate Resilience Profiles, the PHASES collaborative supporting people experiencing homelessness, and dementia-care resources tailored to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Services include recently commissioned Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in Buderim, Gladstone, and Caloundra, plus a Rockhampton Women's Health Services expansion and mobile primary-care responses during disaster recovery.

The business model is government grant-funded commissioning rather than commercial revenue: CCQ receives Commonwealth funding, then re-allocates it via contracts and partnership agreements to local providers under outcomes-based and service-delivery frameworks. Pricing, customer acquisition, and go-to-market concepts do not apply in a conventional sense; CCQ holds a geographically designated monopoly on PHN-level primary care commissioning within its catchment, and its "customers" are effectively the regional population, contracted providers, and the Department of Health and Aged Care as the principal funder.

Name

Ccq - Country To Coast Qld

Legal name

Sunshine Coast Health Network Ltd

Website

https://c2coast.org.au

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Country to Coast Queensland is an Australian Primary Health Network that commissions and coordinates primary, preventive, and mental health services across Central Queensland, Wide Bay, and the Sunshine Coast, funded principally by the federal government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Primary Health Network Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

State/Provincial/Regional Health Departments (HLAJAAAA)

Keywords

• Primary health network
• Health service commissioning
• Regional primary care
• Digital health platforms
• Health workforce support

Headquarters

HQ city

Maroochydore

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Australian Government PHN Program Funding: CCQ receives federal government funding through the Primary Health Network Program to commission health services, support primary care workforce development, and improve health outcomes across the region. Funding is used for commissioning services rather than direct revenue generation.
2. Service Commissioning: CCQ commissions health services from providers including general practices, ACCHOs, NGOs, and other health organisations. They manage contracts and funding arrangements but do not generate revenue from service delivery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Country to Coast Queensland (CCQ) operates as a federally funded Primary Health Network that commissions primary health services across Central Queensland, Wide Bay, and Sunshine Coast. It funds and coordinates general practices, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, hospitals, and community organisations through contracts and partnerships, while deploying digital health tools (HealthPathways, Primary Sense, GP Smart Referrals, telehealth) and targeted programs covering mental health, aged care, homelessness, multicultural access, and disaster resilience.

Product overview

Country to Coast Queensland operates as a Primary Health Network (PHN) commissioning health services across Central Queensland, Wide Bay, and Sunshine Coast. The organization does not offer a single unified product but rather coordinates a portfolio of commissioned services, programs, and digital health tools. Core offerings include HealthPathways (a clinical guidance platform), the PHASES cardiovascular prevention program (using Primary Sense analytics), Better Connect (mental health service network), ZERO Homeless Health Initiative, Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, Integrated Team Care, and various digital health tools including GP Smart Referrals, Health Provider Portal, and Telehealth services. The Quality Improvement Toolkit Hub provides general practices with practical tools for clinical quality improvement across multiple health conditions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 780 localised HealthPathways available to clinicians
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

26 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major, strategic and minor.

• Anglicare Southern QueenslandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organisation representing The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane. Anglicare Southern Queensland provides community services across the region and participates in governance and decision-making for CCQ.
• CheckUPcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTrading as General Practice Queensland Ltd, CheckUP is a member organisation involved in CCQ governance. CheckUP focuses on improving primary health care access and quality.
• Lutheran ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organisation representing Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland District. Provides aged care and community services in the region.
• Manngoor Dja Aboriginal Health Services (NCACCH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorth Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health trading as Manngoor Dja. Primary ACCHO providing culturally safe health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Gympie and Maroochydore.
• Pharmaceutical Society of AustraliacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational professional organisation for pharmacists. Member organisation in CCQ governance structure.
• Queensland Alliance for Mental HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPeak body for mental health NGOs in Queensland. Member organisation providing voice for mental health sector in CCQ governance.
• Queensland Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies (QNADA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPeak body representing alcohol and other drug sector in Queensland. Member organisation in CCQ governance.
• Sundale LtdcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organisation providing aged care and community services. Participates in CCQ governance and strategic direction.
• Bidgerdii Community Health ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation operating in Rockhampton and Blackwater. Provides comprehensive primary health care services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
• Yoonthalla Services WoorabindacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerACCHO operating in Woorabinda, providing health and community services to local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
• Nhulundu Health ServicecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerACCHO providing primary health care services in Gladstone region for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Indigenous Wellbeing CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerACCHO operating in Bundaberg and Gayndah, delivering health and wellbeing services to First Nations communities.
• Galangoor Duwalami Primary HealthcarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerACCHO providing primary healthcare services in Hervey Bay and Maryborough regions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Ochre HealthmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMedical centre operator co-locating Medicare Urgent Care Clinic at Ochre Medical Centre in Sippy Downs, Buderim. Partnership enables bulk-billed urgent care delivery.
• Gladstone Family Medical CentremajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGeneral practice hosting Medicare Urgent Care Clinic at 7 Goondoon Street, Gladstone Central. Provides bulk-billed urgent care services.
• Queensland Primary Health NetworkscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCCQ partners with other Queensland PHNs for state-wide initiatives including PHASES cardiovascular prevention program, coordinated through Queensland Health.
• University of South Australia (now Adelaide University)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerDelivered the COMPANION pilot program for Community Pain Champions training. Partnership for pain education research and community health worker training.
• IFYS and Roseberry QueenslandstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead organisations for CCQ ZERO Homeless Health Initiative, applying Advance to Zero methodology to address homelessness through coordinated health and housing services.
• Australian Business VolunteersstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership partner in Resilient CARE program supporting disaster resilience and community recovery initiatives across the CCQ region.
• IMPACT Community ServicesstrategicChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCommissioned through PHN Multicultural Access Program to improve health outcomes for PALM scheme workers in Bundaberg through consortium approach.
• True Relationships and Reproductive HealthstrategicChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDelivering Rockhampton Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinic services funded by Australian Government, expanding specialist care access in Central Queensland.
• Hospital and Health ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFormal partnerships with Hospital and Health Services across the region for mental health, AOD, and suicide prevention through Joint Regional Plan 2025-2030.
• headspacemajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorYouth mental health service network operating across the CCQ region for young people aged 12-25 with mental health challenges.
• Queensland Department of Housing and Public WorksstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on rapid mobile health outreach service for Rockhampton flood recovery, uniting health and housing responses.
• Hervey Bay Neighbourhood CentreminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDelivering Balance for Life: Healthy Ageing and Falls Prevention Program for older people in Hervey Bay.
• Mater ResearchstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership for Bridge to Better Health project improving annual health assessments for patients with intellectual disability.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Healthdirect Australia: Healthdirect Australia is a national, federally-funded health information and service-navigation provider integrated with CCQ's "Find the Right Care" pathways; it is a broader incumbent offering overlapping service-finder and telehealth capability but at a national rather than regional level.

Direct peers

• Brisbane North PHN: Brisbane North PHN is another federally-funded Primary Health Network operating under the same commissioning model as CCQ, serving a comparable urban/regional population in South-East Queensland with similar priority areas including mental health, aged care, and digital health tools like HealthPathways.
• Gold Coast PHN: Gold Coast PHN is a fellow Queensland Primary Health Network delivering PHN-funded commissioning services, with overlapping priority populations including multicultural communities, aged care, mental health and AOD, and shared use of HealthPathways and Primary Sense platforms.
• Western Queensland PHN: Western Queensland PHN is a primary peer delivering PHN-funded commissioning services across a vast, sparsely populated Queensland region with overlapping reliance on telehealth, mobile outreach, and disaster-resilience initiatives comparable to CCQ's Resilient CARE program.
• Northern Queensland PHN: Northern Queensland PHN is a regional PHN peer operating a similar commissioning model across a comparable dispersed population, with shared emphasis on Indigenous health, mental health, workforce development, and digital health tool deployment (HealthPathways, Primary Sense).
• Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN (legacy entity): CCQ itself grew out of the prior regional PHN structure covering the same Central Queensland, Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast footprint; legacy PHN peer bodies in other states operate the same commissioning model, making them direct structural peers for benchmarking programs and scale.
• Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN: Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN operates as a direct peer under the same Australian PHN program, covering a mixed regional Queensland footprint with comparable programs in mental health, Indigenous health, primary care workforce, and HealthPathways.

Emerging players

• Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH): IUIH is an Aboriginal Community Controlled health service network operating in South-East Queensland with strong overlap to CCQ's First Nations priority area; CCQ's Board Chair Dr Shea Spierings is IUIH's Executive Director, making it a closely linked Indigenous health counterpart rather than a pure competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CountrytoCoastQLD
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/countrytocoastqld

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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