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Rural Health Workforce Australia is the national peak body for advocacy and representation on Australian rural and remote health workforce issues. RHWA represents Rural Workforce Agencies in all states and the Northern Territory of Australia. Rural Health Workforce Australia is the national peak body for advocacy and representation on Australian rural and remote health workforce issues. RHWA represents Rural Workforce Agencies in all states and the Northern Territory of Australia.

Media

Media enquiries about Rural Health Workforce Australia should be made to our Communications Manager, Tony Wells, 03 9860 4706 or 0417 627 916. If you have a news item or wish to include information about your event on our site, please send details to info@rhwa.org.au.

Recent RHWA media releases and media articles are listed below.

It pays to be a rural GP, study finds 18/8/10
Earnings for GPs in outer regional, rural and remote Australia are 11.5% higher than GPs working in major cities
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Rural and remote Australia needs fair share of health dollar 12/5/10
RHWA response to health initiatives in 2010 Federal Budget
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Good for rural people: allied health package praised 6/4/10
RHWA response to Federal Government's $11.8m allied health package
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Bush to benefit from GP training boost 15/3/10
RHWA response to Federal Government's $635m doctor training package
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Seminar to address 'time bomb' in rural health 22/2/10
The impending retirement of health professionals in country areas is a demographic 'time bomb', according to the National Rural Health Students' Network and the Australian Medical Students' Association. With support from RHWA, they have organised a seminar in Wollongong to help foster the next generation of rural health leaders.
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Overseas doctors essential in the bush 20/1/10
RHWA supports Federal Government's 10-year policy for international medical graduates, saying it is a vital way of meeting doctor shortages in remote and rural Australia.
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Rural GP Locum Program launch 23/12/09
Snowdon launches Rural GP Locum Program
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Will rural communities see more doctors as medical student numbers grow? 13/1/09
Research from RHWA shows that the increase in medical student numbers will not necessarily translate into more doctors in the bush. Domestic graduates have shown a reluctance to practise in the bush and one of the main reasons why rural health servcies are not in crisis is because International Medical Graduates have to work in areas where there are workforce shortages.
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Recycling old policies will not produce more doctors for the bush 30/10/08
Despite the fact that the Commonwealth government has poured millions of dollars into expanding the number of places in medical schools, there is little evidence to suggest that this will result in more doctors for rural and remote Australia according to Dr Kim Webber.
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Need More GPs Lobby Group 26/8/08
RHWA wrote a letter to The Australian about the attempts by the `Need More GPs¿ lobby group to allow Overseas Trained Doctors to work in metropolitan communities (The Australian 23/8).
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