To support our general practice workforce, LHDs and other health services to improve patient care we are implementing a General Practitioner Scholarship Program that offers short term paid placements within set clinical areas.

These scholarships provide an innovative collaborative opportunity for GPs, LHDs and other health professionals to work together to deliver better care and improve health outcomes for communities across our catchment.

If you are a GP and would like the opportunity to work with local specialists and their clinical teams to update your knowledge, skills and networks we encourage you to apply. Each scholarship program provides remuneration for 40 hours and will be accredited for 40 RACGP CPD hours (5 educational activities, 35 reviewing performance).

To be informed when the GP Scholarship Program expressions of interest are open we encourage you to sign up to our Staying Ahead Newsletter.

‘Helping with the life stuff – everything from the practicalities of finding a place to stay, to choosing childcare and education.'

A Department of Regional NSW initiative, The Welcome Experience is designed to facilitate, attract, prepare and welcome key frontline workers to regional NSW. Originally designed to support public service workers the service has now been expanded to include General Practitioners.

Local Area Connectors are available to connect you and your family with local people and local resources helping them settle in and feel at home in their new community faster.

The Welcome Experience is currently being piloted in select locations:

• For Goulburn, Yass and Crockwell you can connect with your local Welcome Experience team here.
• For Bega Valley, get in touch with your local connector here.

To encourage health professionals to work in regional, rural and remote areas and support general practices to provide multidisciplinary team based care the Department of Health and Aged Care provide incentives through the Workforce Incentive Program.

Currently there are three incentive streams:

• The practice stream - aimed at incentivising practices to support multidisciplinary team base care by engaging a range of health professionals
• The doctor stream - pays incentives directly to doctors providing primacy care in Modified Monash (MM) 3-7 locations
• The rural advanced skill payment - this payment is provided directly to doctors providing both primary care and emergency and / or advanced skills in MM 3-7 locations.

COORDINARE has partnered with the Rural Doctors Network NSW (RDN) to showcase our unique region as an area of choice for health workers wanting to provide comprehensive healthcare services while embedding themselves in their local communities.

Hosted on RDN’s innovative Rural Health Pro platform, South Eastern NSW will soon have our own localised page that will be the go-to site for information on our diverse region, job vacancies, grants and scholarships, projects and more.

Watch this space for future updates!