When disaster strikes, it doesn’t discriminate based on location. This means that crucial health services in rural and remote communities, already stretched to their limits, can be heavily impacted.
It could be the single-doctor town whose clinic and equipment didn’t make it. Townspeople cut off from lifesaving health services. Or areas simply over-run with illness or injury, unprepared and ill-equipped for it.
The Rural Doctor’s Foundation emergency health funding initiative can provide up to $10,000 for flood-affected rural GPs.
To be eligible, you must be a rural or remote GP or work in a rural or remote practice in MMM 3-7 areas.
You’ll be asked to provide your AHPRA number. You or your practice must be experiencing significant hardship from a disaster/pandemic event.
Furthermore, this hardship must be negatively impacting your capacity to provide medical services to the rural or remote community you practice in.
The funds requested are to assist in addressing these impacts by providing direct relief to you as a GP or your practice, and by improving capacity to resume or sustain service delivery.
Applications from businesses eligible for assistance under relief packages released by the Commonwealth or state governments are not eligible under this program.
How to apply
The Rural Doctors Foundation has streamlined the application process for emergency relief funding so that you get help as quickly as possible. Call on (07) 3039 0011 to talk through the application process one-on-one.
Visit Rural Doctors Foundation for more information.