RVTS fact sheet June, 2019

ABOUT Boggabri

Tamworth NSW NewCastle

Sydney

ABOUT TARGETED RECRUITMENT The Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) has expanded its traditional workforce retention and training model by recruiting doctors to targeted remote communities with high medical workforce need. The aim is to enhance the attractiveness of rural and remote posts to high quality applicants to provide communities with a well-supported and sustainable GP workforce. The initial pilot of the program in 2018-19 has successfully secured the services of six full-time doctors to six rural and remote communities across . Targeted recruitment positions utilise existing RVTS training positions and infrastructure. The training is fully funded by the Australian Government and is a four-year GP training program delivered by Distance Education and Remote Supervision to Fellowship of the ACRRM and/or RACGP.

Location Attractions Housing Education

Boggabri is a small town in Boggabri is located on the Boggabri has a number of Boggabri Public School north-western NSW between picturesque . different housing options. is a government run co- Gunnedah and . The Boggabri Heritage Walk is The median house price is educational school catering for Boggabri is located 463km popular amongst tourists and $253,500 and the average students from kindergarten to north-west of via locals. rent is $350 per week for a Year 6. Scone and 39km north-west of There are many places of three-bedroom house and Sacred Heart Primary School Gunnedah. interest, including Boggabri approximately $365 per week is a Catholic primary school It is located in . Museum, World War I for a four-bedroom house. catering for kindergarten to For more information, go to monument and the iconic town Source:realestate.com.au, March, Year 6 students. www.narrabri.nsw.gov.au Horse Trough which was used 2019. High school students will to water the horses which need to travel to neighbouring brought the children to school. Gunnedah. ABOUT BOGGABRI MEDICAL CENTRE

Contact: Jessica Yuen Ochre Health Boggabri Medical Centre (02) 8356 3127 ochrehealth.com.au/practices/bogabbri-medical-centre/

Ochre Health Boggabri Medical Centre is the only medical as well as four acute care beds, one of which is in a practice in the town and it is located in one wing of the palliative care room. Boggabri Hospital. Emergencies are either transported by road ambulance The medical centre caters for residents of Boggabri, or air ambulance to Tamworth, a 90 minute drive, or John Narrabri and Gunnedah and is open Monday to Friday. Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. This is due to the expansion of mining activity outside On-site and visiting community health services include Boggabri and the subsequent increased demand for a dietitian, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry, diabetes both general practice and occupational general practice, education, baby health, aged care assessment, and drug including pre-employment health checks. and alcohol services. The medical centre is currently a two full-time doctor The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population of practice. It has four consulting rooms and full-time nursing Boggabri is 11.3 per cent. support. The hospital facility also includes seven high care beds and nine low care beds in nursing home-type accommodation, FAST FACTS

Referring hospitals Services Visiting specialists • Tamworth Hospital • Accident and emergency • Physiotherapist 117km • Acute care • Psychologist • John Hunter Hospital • Palliative care • Podiatrist Newcastle 339km • Long stay beds • Dietitian • Pathology • Baby health • Aged care assessment • Drug and alcohol services

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