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Highlights include:
- Progressing implementation of the National Rural Generalist Pathway following the recognition of rural generalist medicine as a new field of specialty practice within general practice.
- Supporting place-based education and training through national leadership with the Regional Education Commissioner and the Rural Health International Place-based Education and Research (RHIPER) Conference.
- Advancing rural nursing and midwifery generalism through education and training pathway mapping informed by national consultation, evidence reviews and workforce survey findings.
- Examining the Multi-Purpose Service Program and multidisciplinary models of care to strengthen sustainable, integrated health services in rural and remote communities.
- Contributing to key primary care and workforce reforms, including Working Better for Medicare, rural workforce incentives, specialist training and digital health initiatives.
- Strengthening engagement with First Nations organisations and communities through the First Nations Peak Organisations Roundtable and ongoing collaboration with national First Nations health bodies.
- Supporting development of the National Allied Health Workforce Strategy and progressing discussions on a nationally consistent approach to allied health rural generalism.
- Maintaining formal engagement structures, including the Advisory Network of the National Rural Health Commissioner, National Rural Health Commissioner’s Consumer Advisory Group, National Rural Generalist Pathway Strategic Council and First Nations Peak Organisations Roundtable.
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