STUDENTS enrolled in healthcare degrees in New South Wales are encouraged to apply for up to $12,000 in financial support to assist with their studies.
Minister for Health Ryan Park on Friday announced the next round of applications for the Tertiary Health Study Subsidies Program will open on January 14, 2025.
Support will be available for up to 850 nursing students, 400 medical students and 150 midwifery students.
The program is designed to create a future pipeline of health workers by supporting students with fees, technology, travel, or other costs related to their degree.
Subsidies are also available for students of paramedicine, Aboriginal health, dentistry and oral health therapy, and various allied health professions including psychology, pharmacy, dietetics, and nuclear medicine.
Students successful in their application and beginning their degrees will receive subsidies of $4000 per year over three years.
Existing students will receive one-off payments of $8000 after acceptance of employment for a position within NSW Health.
Students must be willing to make a five-year commitment to working in the NSW public health system.
There are a limited number of subsidies available, and applications will remain open until all subsidies are awarded.
The full list of eligible workforce groups and locations are available at NSW Health.
.The subsidies form part of a series of measures introduced to further strengthen the state’s health workforce, including:
Implementing the Safe Staffing Levels initiative in our emergency departments;
Providing permanent funding for 1,112 FTE nurses and midwives on an ongoing basis;
Abolishing the wages cap and delivering the highest pay increase in more than a decade for nurses and other health workers; and
Beginning to roll out 500 additional paramedics in regional, rural and remote communities.
Minister for Health, Ryan Park, said more than 3900 students across NSW have already benefitted from the NSW Government’s $120 million investment in tertiary health study subsidies.
“I am so pleased more students across NSW will continue to benefit from this important initiative, which is helping to ease the financial burden on those starting a career in health,” Mr Park said.
“Up to 4000 subsidies are on offer this year for health degrees including nursing, midwifery, medicine, paramedicine, allied health and health science.
“This program is one of many initiatives the Minns Labor Government is rolling out to boost capacity across the public health system and provide relief to our hardworking frontline healthcare staff.”
Medical Student and Tertiary Health Study Subsidies recipient Aimee Long has moved from the pharmaceutical workforce to medicine.
“I already had a taste of healthcare while working as a pharmacist. Medicine felt like the next logical step for me,” Ms Long said.
“I grew up in country Victoria, so I saw the role the doctors and GPs play there and how important it is to that community. So, I decided that is something that I wanted to do and give back to small and rural communities like that.
“Receiving the Tertiary Health Study Subsidy allowed me to become part of Australia’s largest health system.
“Being in medicine is quite an expensive undertaking so it helps me to afford lots of things such as resources, whether or not they’re specific to the uni or external,” she said.
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