Impact assessment of the medical practice assisting (MPA) program in general practice in the hunter New England and central coast regions of Australia.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the University of Newcastle Human Research Ethics Committee, approval number: H-2020-0241.The study and all methods were undertaken in accordance with the approval and with relevant guidelines and regulations. No identifiable individual person’s data have been included in this paper. Informed consent was provided by all participants to use their aggregated and non-identifiable data. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding The project was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council via NSW Regional Health Partners. Otherwise, the funders were not involved in the design of the study, nor collection, analysis, and interpretation of data nor writing the manuscript. In kind support was provided by the Hunter Medical Research Institute and Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network."