WA Rural Paediatricians Network

Leadership team

5 August 2025 - Dr Rebecca Cresp I trained in paediatrics in both WA and the NT completing my qualifications in 2010. After a brief few months at PMH I then spent my next 12 months as a newly minted consultant working on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory. I returned to WA in 2012 and commenced work at PMH as a general paediatrician...

Funding approval to scope rural training pathway

4 August 2025 - The Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing announced on 2nd July 2025 that the WA Rural Paediatric Training Pathway has been selected for funding in Round 4 of the Flexible Approach to Training in Expanded Settings (FATES):

Grattan Institute report

3 August 2025 - The Grattan Institute has just published a new report detailing the current level of access to specialist care throughout Australia. Including detailed information on WA's regions.

Recent article

2 August 2025 - Results of a pilot project conducted by colleagues from The Rural Clinical School of WA’s Regional Training Hubs team were recently published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health...

"No Time for Make-up"

1 August 2025 - Don’t know what to get for a fellow paediatrician’s upcoming birthday? Or that relative that still doesn’t fully understand what you do? They may be interested to read “No Time for Make-up” by flying doctor and paediatrician Dr Elizabeth Green.