DHSA Partnerships

Funding partnerships

DHSA is a not-for-profit and receives financial support from a number of organisations and revenue streams including:

1. The Medical Board of Australia, through its decision to grant arms-length financial support to external doctors’ health programs including DHSA (funding has been received since 2014)
2. Country SA PHN which recognises the importance to the community of a healthy medical workforce
3. Various revenue streams including after-hours clinic fees-for-service, bank interest and rental returns
4. Grants (previously through Rural Doctors Workforce Agency, Rural Health Alliance, Perpetual Trustees)

Operational Partnerships

DHSA works with a range of interested businesses and organisations to promote and implement the program.

These include:

• AMA(SA), as a Member organisation
• Rural Doctors Workforce Agency, as a Member organisation
• Medical Colleges (RACGP, ACRRM, Physicians, Anaesthetists, Dermatologists, Psychiatry, Surgeons, Radiologists, Pathologists, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecologists), in promotion and support
• MIGA, in promotion, education, innovation and indemnity
• RDASA, in education and promotion
• JF Consulting, in grant applications
• Country SA PHN, in grant funding and promotion
• Adelaide PHN, in promotion
• sapmea, in training coordination
• Redman Media, Ms Lyndal Redman, in video production
• Return to Work SA, education support
• GPEx GP Training, in promotion and education
• Prof Liz Farmer, as project evaluator
• Rural Health Alliance, in grant allocation
• Medical Board of Australia, as part-funder of the program
• Perpetual Trustees, in grant provision
• Doctors' Health Alliance, in national networking and training
• SA Health - metropolitan hospitals
• SA Medical Education & Training (SAMET)
• LearnEM, Dr Peter Stuart, in education
• Answering Adelaide, in the 24-hr phone service
• CyberSquad, in IT support
• Quisk, web design