P.O.Box 433
Nedlands
Western Australia 6909
10 Stirling Highway
Nedlands
Western Australia 6009
Background
Established by agreement between the Western Australian Government and The University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1989, the Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine (WACRRM) was created within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences to help alleviate a chronic shortage of GPs in country areas. Nine years later, WACRRM gained Federal recognition and funding to become this State’s rural medical workforce agency.
Following the recommendations of a Ministerial Review in 2006, WACRRM separated from UWA and established itself as the Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine Ltd, operating under the trading name Rural Health West. Registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as a not for profit, public company that is limited by guarantee, Rural Health West became operational on 30 June 2007.
Funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing and the Western Australian Department of Health, Rural Health West is administered by a seven member Board made up of elected and appointed Directors who are responsible to the company’s membership base.
