Welcome
About us
As an outcome of the Director-General’s Governance Review on the future directions for NSW Health completed in October 2011, the Clinical Education and Training Institute (CETI) has been restructured to become the Health Education and Training Institute (HETI).
HETI will have an enhanced focus on clinical and non-clinical education and training with an expanded scope to cover management development and leadership programs for the system in addition to CETI’s existing focus on postgraduate services including undergraduate and vocational training.
HETI will establish itself as a national leader in people development within the health sector in NSW.
The Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) Rural Directorate provides these opportunities to rural and remote health staff and undertakes a number of key activities including:
- Development of strategies and related initiatives to support the achievement of the NSW Rural Health Plan outcomes - The Plan contains recommendations to ensure Rural Health remains a priority, through community involvement, clinical leadership, and collaboration with Senior Area Health Managers in the implementation of these initiatives. The Rural Directorate aims to provide peer support as well as providing and promoting ongoing educational opportunities to all rural and remote health staff.
- Contributing to an effective and equitable rural health service by driving the agenda for attracting and sustaining a cohesive rural health workforce and supporting staff to improve rural health practice and service delivery.
- Supporting rural clinicians across all stages of their careers and promoting good practice in rural health service delivery by facilitating networking; acting as a source of information for rural and remote stakeholders on rural health workforce and service issues; creating incentives for organisations to respond to perceived gaps in rural health service delivery; and providing advocacy for rural health services and the rural health workforce. It is a "virtual directorate" with staff working across NSW.
additional scholarship funding round on now!!!
closes June 1st 2012
HETI Rural Directorate is having an additional scholarship funding round for this financial year! Applications close for this round on June 1st 2012. This is an opportunity for you to receive extra funding, and as well as receive funding sooner! See our Scholarship page for application form and guidelines.
rural research capacity building program 2012 intake
now open - closing date 1st july 2012
The RRCBP is calling for applications for the 2012 intake. To find out more about this valuable program and download an application form, please see our RRCBP page. Research Program begins September 2012.
Claiming The Date!
NSW Rural Health and Research Congress 2012
In previous years CETI Rural Directorate has conducted three conferences: the Rural and Remote Health Conference, The NSW Rural Allied Health Conference and the Rural Health Research Colloquium, each every two years. In order to highlight and promote the multidisciplinary focus of rural health, as well as injecting more clinical based rural research into the conference program, these three conferences will this year be combined for the first time to become an annual Rural Health and Research Congress.
When? 5 – 7 November 2012
Where? Wagga Wagga RSL
Who should attend? There will be something for everyone!
Clinicians from the multidisciplinary team we call rural health (allied health, nursing, medical, clinician researchers, academic partners in health, metropolitan colleagues with a rural directorate, health service managers, health workers from the private sector, aboriginal health workers, allied health assistants).
Abstracts are now open!!! Closing date 29th June 2012
To submit an Abstract for consideration, please visit
http://www.hotelnetwork.com.au/conferences/Conferences/rural_health
Click here to view the Call for Abstracts poster
For more information, contact Jenny Preece on (02) 6692 7716 or jenny.preece@ncahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Evaluation of Rural Allied Health Assistants (RAHA) Project – Interim Report November 2011
Linked above is the second interim report of the evaluation of the RAHA Project in the Murrumbidgee and Southern NSW Local Health Districts (formerly the Greater Southern Area Health Service). The purpose of the consultancy is to evaluate the ongoing implementation of the RAHA Project against the Outcomes and Key Result Areas for the Project.
The evaluation is undertaken in the light of the experiences of Allied Health Professionals, RAHAs and trainee RAHAs, other relevant MLHD and SNSWLHD staff and associated service providers, including the NSW Riverina Institute of TAFE and other project partners, and from the perspective of the RAHA's clients.
The consultancy also explores the design and implementation of the RAHA Project against the context of the academic and professional literature relating to allied health issues, policy, practice and innovation. The formal evaluation of the RAHA Project is a specified outcome of the project.
Please see the Rural Allied Health Project page for more background information.
