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Lachlan Valley

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The Collaborative Care Program in the Lachlan Valley (Parkes, Forbes and Condobolin) is focused on the development of the health workforce across the region and opportunities to coordinate services. The project brings stakeholders together from the three communities to identify primary health needs and work in a co-design process to come up with solutions that will improve access to primary health care. This includes the development of a Health Workforce Strategy for the region and a targeted GP recruitment campaign to support models of care.

What the Lachlan Valley community had to say in our survey...

37% of people do not know how to access some services

Better access to GPs on the day of need

39% travelled to another town to see a GP

National Rural Health Commissioner Tours the Lachlan Valley

National Rural Health Commissioner Tours the Lachlan Valley

Prof. Ruth Stewart, the National Rural Health Commissioner, toured the towns of Parkes, Forbes, and Condobolin in March 2023 to hear about local health needs.

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The Collaborative Care Program received funding through the Australian Government.
The Lachlan Valley project is supported by

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Primary health care is generally the first point of contact you have with the health system. Typical examples are your local GP, or an allied health professional such as a dentist, physio or speech pathologist. Your local pharmacist is another primary health care provider, and so is a nurse or a midwife. These health practitioners provide continuing care to patients and coordinate any specialist care the patient may need.

The Lachlan Valley project is a partnership between primary health service stakeholders in the towns of Condobolin, Forbes, and Parkes. The working group has representatives from local governments, local healthcare providers, Western NSW Local Health District, Western NSW Primary Health Network, and Rural Doctors Network.

The Program has received funding through the Innovative Models of Care grant program that is administered by the Commonwealth Government Department of Health and Aged Care. 

Please direct all enquiries to Justyn Walker (Program Lead - Collaborative Care) on jwalker@nswrdn.com.au | T: 02 4924 8066

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The Collaborative Care Program received funding through the NSW Ministry of Health and is facilitated by Rural Doctors Network.