Funding for TAS private practices to employ a Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Funding will support private practices' salary-related costs associated with employing a Nurse Practitioner. 

Applicants may apply for funding to support either part-time or full-time Nurse Practitioner positions. Funding will be provided at a rate of $150,000 per full-time equivalent (FTE) Nurse Practitioner position per annum. Funding for part-time positions will be calculated on a pro-rata basis according to the Nurse Practitioners' employed FTE.  Positions may be spread across multiple locations within the same practice.

Practices may apply for funding for more than one Nurse Practitioner position.  Funding is capped at a maximum of $300,000 per practice per annum, equivalent to a maximum of 2.0 FTE Nurse Practitioner positions. 

Check if you can apply

To be eligible for funding, applicants must:

• be owners and/or operators of an existing private healthcare practice, or practice that will be operational within Tasmania within 6 months of the application closing date
• operate within a physical, bricks-and-mortar private practice or a healthcare service operating from an established (or soon to be established) practice location (e.g. a General Practice, Specialist Medical Practice, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation etc.)
• provide a current Australian business number (ABN)
• demonstrate industry-accepted capability and infrastructure necessary to support Nurse Practitioner practice
• demonstrate the ability to maintain ongoing compliance with all relevant Commonwealth and Tasmanian legislation, regulations and professional requirements
• demonstrate the capacity to sustain the proposed Nurse Practitioner positions beyond the 2-year grant period.