The model will create networks of GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals to deliver services in Tumut, Tumbarumba, Batlow and Adelong.

Director Service Delivery at NSW Rural Doctors Network Mike Edwards, said Tumut was an ideal location to trial innovative approaches to health workforce solutions.

"A key enabler of success for this trial will be aligning community and health sector expectations and goals," he said.

"Through consultation with community-based working groups already in place in Tumut, we can agree on approaches that may work best for the trial.

"NSW Rural Doctors Network sees this Collaborative Care project as the start of a model that could hopefully be scaled-up to support similar sub-regional approaches in remote and rural areas across Australia. We look forward to starting work early in the new year."

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Regional Health Minister, Mark Coulton said it is clear the existing one-size-fits-all approach isn't working for every rural community.

"Creating more flexible settings as part of this approach is an important step in creating a rural health workforce to service the needs of the region," he said.

The new Snowy Valleys model will investigate if viable practices would be sustained by a team of GPs, nurses and allied health professionals delivering services to a number of smaller, connected communities.

The trial will last 18 months.