THE RIVERINA’S health providers have announced a new recruitment drive to ease doctor shortages.
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On Thursday morning, the Riverina Medical Specialist Recruitment and Retention Committee signed another three year agreement to bring needed professions to the region.
Since 2004, the group drive has brought more than 100 specialists to work and settle in Wagga.
Committee chair Nick Stephenson said recruitment drives would focus on medical specialisations such as radiology, paediatric psychiatry, neurology, obstetrics and gastroenterology.
There would also be a push for more “rural training pathways” and attempts to establish Wagga as a regional training hub for doctors for medical students.
This could help ease GP shortages, Dr Stephenson said.
“We are certainly mindful that we want to as much as possible facilitate, increase and improve the training and recruitment of rural doctors in general which would include GPs,” he said.