Rural Procedural Grants Newsletter, February 2026
In this issue:
The latest news
On behalf of the Rural Procedural Grants Program (RPGP) team, we welcome all our participants to 2026 and look forward to looking after your claims. The 2025/26 financial calendar runs until 30 June, with the 2026/27 calendar beginning 1 July.
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has updated the RPGP guidelines to include a new training model and updated funding amounts. As of 1 October 2025, RPGP-funded training includes hybrid training.
Hybrid training consists of a minimum of three hours of face-to-face training and three hours of related online training delivered in one day. If your training is not three hours face-to-face and three hours online for the same activity it is not a hybrid claim.
This new training model is funded at $1500 per eligible day. Hybrid claims fall within the normal face-to-face funding limits and are capped at 10 days for the Procedural grant component, and three days each for Emergency Medicine and Emergency Mental Health, displayed in the below table.
The new program guidelines and a helpful factsheet are available on our website, and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing RPGP website. Participants are encouraged to contact the RACGP with any questions about the guideline changes.
| Training Model |
Face-to-Face Training |
Hybrid Training |
Online Training |
| Daily Rate |
$2,000 |
$1,500 |
$1,000 |
| Maximum Annual Financial Support – Procedural Stream |
$20,000 |
| Maximum Annual Financial Support – Emergency Medicine Stream |
$6,000 |
| Maximum Annual Financial Support – Emergency Mental Health Stream |
$6,000 |
Instructors of eligible activities can claim for instructing courses within their registered grant category once per course, per financial year.
CPD training activities may be undertaken overseas in a face-to-face format, however they must meet the following criteria:
- Training must be pre-approved by the RACGP
- Activities must be education that is not available, or difficult to attend, in Australia (ie long waiting lists or distance constraints)
- Participants must submit an attendance certificate
- Participants must provide evidence of the number of days and hours of training attended
- Participants must provide evidence of interactive sessions attended (ie highlighted program or other document)
- Participants must provide evidence that the attended activity benefits procedural and/or emergency medicine skills maintenance, or supports upskilling in the rural Australian medical context
The updated Rural Procedural Grants Program guidelines are available on the RACGP website.
Please complete the overseas pre-approval form before registering for overseas training so we can confirm whether the proposed activity is eligible.
The RACGP is your CPD home
Have you finalised recording your CPD for 2025?
Finalise your 2025 CPD record by 28 February to ensure that we can report your CPD compliance to Ahpra.
Use our step-by-step guide to:
- see which activities you can record and the correct CPD type
- log any outstanding EA, RP, and MO requirements
- apply for an exemption or variation if you were absent from practice for at least six continuous months in 2025 (eligibility rules apply) through this form.
If you do not want the RACGP to report your CPD compliance or non-compliance status to Ahpra (for example, you recorded your 2025 CPD with another CPD home or you have retired and will not renew your medical registration in 2026), please let us know as soon as possible.
Time to check and submit your paperwork
To get started, select the ‘RPGP Additional Information Form’ in your account (it’s on the far right-hand side) and upload a credentialing letter stating your unsupervised clinical privileges and scope of practice (including the duration of this credentialing), a letter of employment stating the services you are employed to provide, and the duration of the contract. These documents must also indicate if you were on an on-call roster. Alternatively, you can email this information to rural.procedural.grants@racgp.org.au.
We are happy to advise you now can view all online activities that are grant approved on the RPGP page; all these will be updated monthly so you have the most up to date activities to choose from.
Want to find face-to-face, grant-approved educational activities?
Is the RACGP your CPD home? If so, you can follow the steps below to locate and identify a selection of grant-approved activities for the various grant components.
- Navigate to the RACGP website and log into your account.
- Under the top tab Education, select CPD Home, then Browse Activities.
- In the filter pane to the left of the screen, under Activity Criteria, tick the Rural Procedural Grants eligible box. You will then see all activities marked as grant eligible.
- When you see an activity, you’re interested in, click View Activity – on the left of the page you’ll see Grants eligible, indicating the components it is currently eligible for.
We hope that this may assist with determining course eligibility. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and we can review any activity that you are interested in completing to maintain or upskill your emergency and/or procedural skills.
If there is a course you would like us to review, please email us through the details of the course you are looking to attend and a copy of the program.
Face-to-face activities