Cath Cosgrave Consulting is led by Dr Cath Cosgrave, a rural change-maker, strategic advisor, researcher, speaker and evaluator.

Dr Cosgrave works with rural leaders and change-makers to help address chronic workforce shortages to support the health and wellbeing of rural communities by ensuring the local availability of essential professional health services.

Cath Cosgrave Consulting offers online and face-to-face services to implement proven strategies to attract and retain skilled health professionals, including allied health. Dr Cosgrave works with individual organisations and business collaborations to tailor strategies for the specific business and rural context.

Working with rural leaders to address complex social and health problems, Cath Cosgrave Consulting offers:

• Attraction/Retention strategies
• Research based strategies
• Rural focussed solutions
• Resilience building
• Strengthening community

With internationally recognised expertise in strengthening rural health workforces and a proven track record as a speaker, researcher and consultant, Dr Cosgrave can support communities, health leaders and health businesses in early identification of staff turnover issues, and offer place-based solutions for professional workforce problems.

Dr Cosgrave has developed the Whole-of-Person Retention Improvement Framework, a guide for improving the attraction and retention of health professionals to rural places, as well as the Attract Connect Stay project, offering community-based retention solutions such as strengthening social connectivity and belonging of newcomer health professionals (and their families) moving to rural communities.

With a background in delivering workshops and webinars focussed on the development of a holistic, community-engaged allied health workforce and strengthening strategies for allied health in rural areas, Dr Cosgrave is well placed to support a sustainable rural health workforce across Australia and internationally.

Contact Cath Cosgrave Consulting to receive information on proven professional rural workforce strengthening strategies or to organise a free 30 minute consultation.

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