Navigating financial supports for rural doctors
Tracks
Waterfront Room 1
| Friday, October 25, 2024 |
| 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM |
| Waterfront Room 2 |
Details
Stream: ACRRM | RDAA
Speaker
Mrs Peta Rutherford
Chief Executive Officer
Rural Doctors Association Of Australia
Navigating financial supports for rural doctors
Abstract Overview
RDAA has developed a tool to help potential and current rural doctors understand the level of financial support available to them. The tool will also be of use to rural and remote health services in recruitment of medical practitioners. This session will provide a demonstration of the Commonwealth Financial Support Calculator and promote the full suite of Commonwealth government supported programs and financial incentives/assistance available to doctors working in rural and remote Australia.
Biography
Peta is the CEO at the Rural Doctors Association of Australia, and has been in that role for over eight years. Having dragged her family around Queensland to take up rural hospital management roles in South West Qld and the South Burnett region of Darling Downs HHS, she has finally let them settled in Canberra. Peta is passionate about supporting our rural and remote communities having access to quality medical care. She uses all her previous experience with Qld Health including roles in medical workforce planning and the previously mentioned rural hospital management and 10 years at Medicare, and the support of a great cohort of RDA members across the country, to work with the Commonwealth to find solutions and develop initiatives.
