Guide to RDN Services

Rural Doctors Network (RDN) exists to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in remote, rural, regional, Aboriginal and under-resourced communities. RDN administers services, builds capacity, mobilises knowledge and works collaboratively across the full range of stakeholders to support better health outcomes for communities in need.

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RDN Services:

To help build and sustain access to quality healthcare in remote, rural, regional and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, RDN delivers a range of services including:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement
• Administration of health access Outreach programs in NSW and the ACT
• Career management support, scholarships and grants
• Collaborative Care Program
• Collaborative Commissioning: Care Partnership Diabetes
• Future workforce support including student scholarships, rural immersion and mentoring programs
• Knowledge mobilisation, collation and dissemination of rural health workforce data
• New GP Orientation Workshops 
• Practice management support
• Recruitment support for GPs, locums, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
• Regional workforce and stakeholder coordination, and town-based workforce planning
• Rural Health Pro – the online community for health care professionals
• Rural health news aggregation, publishing and podcasting
• Rural health policy formulation and advocacy
• Training, conferences and events