Visit the Map Locator
View Districts of Workforce Shortage (DWS), Inner/Outer Metro areas, ASGC Remoteness Areas (ASGC-RA 06) and associated information.
Access using the map or the search function.
National Health Services Directory
The NHSD is a convenient and accessible new resource. It builds on and consolidates some existing regional healthcare directories to provide detailed information on available health related services to anyone with internet access.
GP Statistics
The GP Statistics Interactive Tool uses MBS GP Workforce Statistics to provide statistical information on General Practitioner Full-Time Workload Equivalent (FWE) levels including Overseas Trained Doctors (OTDs).
Latest News
- 9 May 2013
Visiting Optometrists Scheme Map Locator
The Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS) supports optometrists to deliver outreach optometric services to remote and very remote locations. For more information on your nearest VOS location please visit our VOS Map Locator.
- 24 December 2012
Medicare Local online Map Locator
The Department has developed standardised information accessible to all Medicare Locals. The information includes Medicare Local Profile reports; information on social determinants of health, significant areas of disadvantage and some MBS item and GP workforce data.
National Health Services Directory
The National Health Services Directory (NHSD) is a convenient and accessible new resource. It builds on and consolidates some existing regional healthcare directories to provide detailed information on available health related services to anyone with internet access.
The directory provides access to reliable information, and will assist you to choose and connect with the most appropriate health services for your current needs
- 2 August 2012
Evaluation of the MSOAP and the VOS – Final Report
The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) engaged Health Policy Analysis to undertake an evaluation of the Medical Specialist Outreach Assistance Program (MSOAP) and the Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS). This report represents the fourth and final deliverable for the project: the final report.
- 26 July 2012
Round 2 of applications for the 2013 intake of RVTS
Round 2 of applications for the 2013 intake of Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) open on 6 August. RVTS trains GP registrars via distance.
- 24 July 2012
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)
From 1 July 2012, the PCEHR will provide a secure online medical history summary that centralises and stores your health information in a single location. For more information, including how to sign up, visit ehealth.gov.au
- 15 May 2012
The National Strategic Framework for Rural and Remote Health
The National Strategic Framework for Rural and Remote Health promotes a national approach to policy, planning, design and delivery of health services in rural and remote communities.
- 21 February 2012
Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme (NAHRLS)
The scope of the Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme (NAHRLS) has been revised to now include leave for a variety of purposes. NAHRLS is a retention tool for rural and remote nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
A new $1 million custom-built mobile health clinic offering supervised student allied health services to residents along the NSW Far South Coast was officially launched at the University of Canberra...