The Rural LAP is a component of the Australian Government's rural workforce capacity agenda and aims to provide targeted rural support services to general practitioners, specialists (obstetricians and anaesthetists), nurses and allied health professionals in rural and remote Australia.

Rural LAP will support and recruit suitable locums to enable rural professionals to get away on leave, and enable organisations to back-fill their positions to support ongoing service delivery.

Rural LAP employs the locum and the scheme supports all locum recruitment, travel and accommodation costs so there is no extra costs to your health service. Rural LAP will then bill your health service for the pre-agreed base pay rate amount for the locum and associated expenses (9.5% superannuation and GST). This arrangement ensures there is minimal administrative burden to your service.