Quality Use of Pathology Project Grants 2025-2027

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to provide funding for projects that improve the management, delivery or use of Medicare pathology services.

This grant opportunity will invest in projects that support the pathology sector and relevant interested parties to collaborate on innovative approaches to improve pathology related practices, including those that improve the economic efficiency, sustainability and quality delivery of the MBS pathology items, amongst requesters/referrers, providers, and consumers of pathology services.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are:

• Quality Pathology Practice: To support professional practice standards that meet consumer, and referral needs and provide evidence-based, best practice, quality-assured services that are safe, efficient, and cost effective and improve the economic efficiency, sustainability and quality delivery of the MBS pathology items
• Quality Referrals (Requesting/Ordering): To support referral practices that: are informed and facilitated by best practice professional relationships and protocols between referrers and providers; are informed by evidence; maximise health benefits; and inform and engage consumers and improve the economic efficiency, sustainability and quality delivery of the MBS pathology items, and
• Quality Consumer Services: To develop and improve consumer-focused, accessible, and coordinated services that promote informed choice, meet consumer needs, and improve the economic efficiency, sustainability and quality delivery of the MBS pathology items.

To be eligible you must 

• have an Australian Business Number (ABN) 
• are registered for the purposes of GST 
• are a permanent resident of Australia 
• have an account with an Australian financial institution,  

and be one of the following entity types: 

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006) 
• Company  
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Cooperative 
• Incorporated Association, or 
• Partnership. 

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above. 

Applications from consortia are acceptable, providing there is a lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth.