Doctors in Rural and Remote Areas

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Reviewed May 2011

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Title:   Workforce Support for Rural General Practitioners program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Workforce Support for Rural General Practitioners (WSRGP) program is used to support the newly arrived and existing general practitioners in rural areas. This includes support for training and professional development, and locum support.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Section 19AB of the Health Insurance Act 1973 Fact sheet
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an overview of detailed information that may relate to your restrictions under section 19AB of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act).
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Rural women's GP service
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Information about the Rural Women's GP Service (RWGPS).
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Australian General Practice Training Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) program offers up to 900 postgraduate vocational training placements in 2011 for medical graduates wanting to pursue a career in General Practice in Australia.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Rural Retention Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Rural Retention Program (RRP) is an initiative that recognises long-serving general practitioners in rural and remote communities that may experience significant difficulties in retaining general practitioners. Communities in which these doctors work will benefit through improved access to general practice services and continuity of health care.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   HECS Reimbursement Scheme
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The HECS Reimbursement Scheme aims to promote careers in rural medicine and increase the number of doctors in rural and regional Australia in the longer term.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Review of the Queensland Health Rural Generalist Pathway model.
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Commonwealth Maternity Services Review report Improving Maternity Services in Australia (February 2009) identified the need to improve access to maternity services for women in rural and remote locations. As part of the 2009-10 Budget, the Government announced a package of measures to respond to this need, including a consultancy to examine the potential for expanding the Queensland Health Rural Generalist Pathway model nationally. This consultancy was carried out by NOVA Public Policy and was completed in June 2010.
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   For rural GPs
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   The issues for patients in remote and rural settings vary greatly with the availability of health care resources and the experience and confidence of local GPs and other health care workers in providing palliative care.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Rural and Remote General Practice Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Funding for activities to recruit and retain general practitioners to/in rural and remote areas.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Rural Retention Program: Central Payments System guidelines
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This document describes the Central Payments System, outlining who is eligible and how payments are calculated.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Report on the Audit of Health Workforce in Rural and Regional Australia
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This report provides information gathered in the audit of the health workforce in rural and remote Australia. It investigates the number and distribution of the health workforce, specifically doctors, nurses and other health professionals, currently working in rural and regional Australia, describes the current workforce supply and identifies where health workforce shortages exist.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Review of the Implementation of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This review was conducted for OATSIH between September 2002 and July 2003 to determine the current state of implementation of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Program (NATSIEHP) and makes recommendations about the future directions for the program.
Date:   May 2004
Title:   Australian Government response to the Review of the Implementation of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Optimal eye health service provision requires an improved response to needs across the health system. This is best viewed at a systems level and with a strategic approach that will benefit not only eye health but the broader health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in their interaction with all levels of the health system.
Date:   May 2004
Title:   Specialist outreach clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings may improve access to care, quality of care, health outcomes, patient satisfaction and use of hospital services. They may also be more costly.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review examines the benefits and costs of outreach in a range of specialties and in a variety of settings. Simple 'shifted outpatients' styles of specialist outreach were shown to improve access, but there was no evidence of their impact on health ...
Date:   Aug 2003
Title:   Review of the impact of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974 on the recruitment and retention of medical practitioners in rural and regional Australia
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The review was initiated to ensure that the application of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act (TPA) was not reducing the capacity of rural communities to recruit and retain medical practitioners.
Date:   Nov 2002
Title:   'It's different in the bush' : a comparison of general practice activity in metropolitan and rural areas of Australia 1998-2000
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,University of Sydney
Description:   This publication is a secondary analysis of data from the first two years of the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program, April 1998 - March 2000. Comparisons between metropolitan and rural areas, are made in terms of characteristics of the general practitioners; types of services they provide; characteristics of the patients and problems managed at the GP-patient encounters.
Date:   Oct 2001

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