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The Health Workforce Scholarship Program (HWSP) provides scholarships and bursaries to help health professionals in remote and rural Australia retain and enhance their skills, capacity and scope of practice.
The HWSP is an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, Health Workforce Program, administered in Queensland by Health Workforce Queensland. If you are providing services in other States or the Northern Territory, please visit Health Workforce Scholarship Program Australia website.
Scholarships or bursaries are available for medical, nursing/midwifery, dental, allied health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers providing primary health care services in rural and remote Queensland in private practice, an Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS), Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) or a non-government or not-for-profit organisation.
Eligible locations:
Qualified health professionals providing primary health care in rural and remote locations in Queensland in a MMM 3-7 location; or
Qualified health professionals providing primary health care employed by an AMS and ACCHS in MMM 1-7 location
Refer to the Health Workforce Locator to identify your MMM (Modified Monash Model) 2019 location classification.
To apply for an HWSP, you must meet the eligibility requirements. The full eligibility requirements and exclusions are detailed in the Applicant Guidelines below.
What funding is available?
We can provide eligible health professionals with the following:
Scholarship: up to $10,000 per year can be provided for up to two years study, to attain a postgraduate qualification of either a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, Master, or PhD.
Bursary: payments of up to $10,000 within a 12-month period that covers the cost of training or course fees and/or cover or partially cover training-related expenses, where appropriate. For example, an accredited industry conference, vocational education, online workshop, and training courses.
Unfortunately, retrospective costs cannot be covered under the Scholarships Program (e.g. if the course is already completed). However, for those eligible health professionals who are currently undertaking eligible upskilling (e.g. part way through your course), we can assess your application for funding for costs not yet incurred from the application submission date. If your application is reviewed and approved - funding support will be provided.
Please note, submitting an application through the Health Workforce Scholarship Program does not mean you will be offered a scholarship or bursary, as all applications received are reviewed as per the Applicant Guidelines. If you are relying on funding support through the Health Workforce Scholarship Program, please ensure you wait to receive an outcome for your application before you commence.
What you need before applying:
You will be required to provide the following when you apply:
Your eligible employment;
Your eligible qualification;
Your primary health care registration; and
Proposed professional development activity including:
Dates you are attending/completing the course;
If course is delivered online, face to face or, online and face to face;
Costs (course costs, reasonable travel costs) that relate to this course;
Identify what are the community benefit/s of this upskilling being completed; and
Identify what skills will be gained by attending this upskilling.
Please do not forward any documentation with your application (or upload documents to the Self-Service Portal) unless requested from HWSP team.
How do I apply?
Applications for the Health Workforce Scholarship Program are now open.
Please ensure you check the Upcoming Rounds information to ensure your application is considered eligible for review.
Upcoming Rounds
Round 3 2024 applications are open between 23/09/2024-13/10/2024 for:
Courses that have already commenced but not yet finished at time of application submission or;
Courses that will commence on or before 28/02/2025 (does not include courses finished prior to application submission) with;
Outcome to be advised on or before 01/11/2024.
Please note that if you want to know the outcome before enrolling/paying for upskilling you apply for courses with start dates in/after November 2024.
A maximum of 2 applications per person will be considered for this round.
Please note that dates are subject to change.
Round 1 2025 applications are open between 20/01/2025-03/02/2025 for:
Courses that have already commenced but not yet finished at time of application submission or;
Courses that will commence on or before 02/05/2025 (does not include courses finished prior to application submission) with;
Outcome to be advised on or before 28/02/2025.
Please note that if you want to know the outcome before enrolling/paying for upskilling, apply for courses with start dates in/after March 2025.
A maximum of 2 applications per person will be considered for this round.
Please note that dates are subject to change.
Round 2 2025 applications are open between 24/03/2025-07/04/2025 for:
Courses that have already commenced but not yet finished at time of application submission or;
Courses that will commence on or before 29/08/2025 (does not include courses finished prior to application submission) with;
Outcome to be advised on or before 02/05/2025.
Please note that if you want to know the outcome before enrolling/paying for upskilling, apply for courses with start dates in/after May 2025.
A maximum of 2 applications per person will be considered for this round.
Please note that dates are subject to change.
Round 3 2025 applications are open between 08/07/2025-22/07/2025 for:
Courses that have already commenced but not yet finished at time of application submission or;
Courses that will commence on or before 31/10/2025 (does not include courses finished prior to application submission) with;
Outcome to be advised on or before 29/08/2025.
Please note that if you want to know the outcome before enrolling/paying for upskilling, apply for courses with start dates in/after September 2025.
A maximum of 2 applications per person will be considered for this round.
Please note that dates are subject to change.
Round 4 2025 applications are open between 22/09/2025-06/10/2025 for:
Courses that have already commenced but not yet finished at time of application submission or;
Courses that will commence on or before 27/02/2026 (does not include courses finished prior to application submission) with;
Outcome to be advised on or before 31/10/2025.
Please note that if you want to know the outcome before enrolling/paying for upskilling, apply for courses with start dates in/after November 2025.
A maximum of 2 applications per person will be considered for this round.
Should you have any enquiries about the HWSP in Queensland, please contact the Scholarships Team or call (07) 2102 0115, press #2 then press #1 to reach the HWSP team.
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