RACGP Rural has lead the response, or provided input, to hundreds of submissions, and attended thousands of stakeholder meetings with government, training organisations, rural workforce agencies and others, including:
- Successfully advocating for change to the AGPT RG policy to better support our FARGP program and the RACGP registrars who were previously disadvantaged
- Advocating for a new appeal process for GPs to challenge the Distribution Priority Area (DPA) classification for their area to better allow better allow rural and regional areas to respond to workforce and population changes affecting general practice.
- Hosting with the Fellowship Pathways team the first Rural Summit in 2020 in Alice Springs, a meeting of key sector stakeholders to discuss rural health focused solutions and policy. The RACGP has progressed more than half of the ideas proposed by delegates in the report.
- The Rural Summit also led to the establishment of the Practice to Practice pilot program in 2020/21, a matchmaking program to connect rural and urban practices to build relationships and workforce outcomes.