Rural Workforce Agencies

Rural Workforce Agencies (RWAs) are funded by the Department of Health and Ageing to implement medical workforce recruitment and retention programs in rural and remote Australia.

Working with their respective State or Territory Health Departments, RWAs undertake health workforce planning, and carry out joint related projects and program delivery. Their main focus is recruitment and retention of general practitioners (family physicians) in rural and remote areas.

The RWAs are:

• General Practice and Primary Health Care Northern Territory (GPPHCNT), Northern Territory
• New South Wales Rural Doctors Network (NSWRDN), New South Wales
• Health Workforce Queensland, Queensland
• Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV), Victoria
• Rural Doctors Workforce Agency (RDWA), South Australia
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• General Practice Workforce Tasmania
• Western Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Medicine (WACRRM), Western Australia

While RWAs are individual entities in their own right, the Rural Health Workforce Australia (RHWA) is the peak body for the RWAs.