The new Rural Workforce Collaborative

The Minister for Health and Wellbeing, the Hon. Chris Picton, launched the new Rural Workforce Collaborative on Thursday 15 December 2022.

The event brought together more than 150 people to identify barriers and solutions associated with improving health care for rural South Australians.

Contributions on how to overcome South Australia’s regional workforce challenges were heard from peak bodies, advocacy groups, government, health professionals and staff, clinicians, executives and managers of regional Local Health Networks.

The Collaborative will provide recommendations for the State Government’s policies, strategies and priority setting to help shape the rural, regional and remote workforce over the next four years.

This includes improving the recruitment, training and retention of the rural workforce across all health professions.

Additionally, it will support the delivery of the State Government’s election promise to recruit and retain 10 FTE country specialist doctors.

The Collaborative will also help review the implementation status of six previously developed Rural Health Workforce Plans:

The Rural Support Service is coordinating the new Rural Workforce Collaborative as part of its commitment to advocating for the health priorities of regional South Australians.

For further information please email Health.RuralWorkforceNetwork@sa.gov.au

The launch of the new Rural Workforce Collaborative was another important step towards improving health care for rural South Australians.

Acknowledgement of Country for Rural Workforce Collaborative
Acknowledgement of Country by Uncle Moogy

Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Chris Picton

Mayor of Kimba, Dean Johnson

President Rural Doctors’ Association of South Australia,
Dr Peter Rischbieth

Chief Executive Officer Rural Doctors’ Workforce Agency,
Lyn Poole

Chief Executive Officer Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health
Network, Rebecca Graham and (in background) Executive
Director Rural Support Service Debbie Martin

Guests at the launch

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Last updated: 01 Apr 2024

The new Rural Workforce Collaborative

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