Visiting Optometrists Scheme

Guidelines for Participating Optometrists

These guidelines should be read prior to completing the Application Form Provision of Outreach Optometric Services under the Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS) July 2011.

PDF printable version of the Program Guidelines for Visiting Optometrists Scheme incorporating the Core Visiting Optometrists Scheme; and Visiting Optometrists Scheme Expansion for Indigenous Australians.

A PDF version of this document “Guidelines for Participating Optometrists” (PDF 533 KB)

Program/Initiatives

• National Rural and Remote Health Infrastructure Program
• Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme
• National Priority Locations
• Visiting Optometrists Scheme
• Round 3 Reporting Templates and Associated Guide 2010-11

All Program/Initiatives

Publications

• Rural Clinical Training and Support (RCTS) 2011-2014 - Program Guidelines
• Accessibility Remoteness Index of Australia Report
• Review of the Queensland Health Rural Generalist Pathway model
• A National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s future
• A Healthier Future for All Australians: National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission - Final Report June 2009

All Publications

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