New Online Hub Making Northern Eyre Peninsula Healthcare Easier To Find
Living in the bush already means fewer healthcare options. Finding Northern Eyre Peninsula healthcare isn’t always straightforward, with visiting specialists, changing clinic schedules and information often scattered across different places. Simply working out who’s in town, and when, can be half the battle.
In parts of the Northern Eyre Peninsula, where some communities have gone years without a permanent private GP clinic, that challenge is even greater.
That’s exactly the problem the Northern Eyre Peninsula Health Alliance (NEPHA) hopes to tackle. The new website aims to make Northern Eyre Peninsula healthcare easier to navigate by bringing visiting doctor schedules, local health services and community wellbeing information together in one place.
Designed for residents across Cleve, Elliston, Franklin Harbour, Kimba, Streaky Bay and Wudinna, the online hub gives people a single place to find out when visiting healthcare professionals are in town, search local health services and explore health and wellbeing programs available across the region.
It builds on NEPHA’s monthly newsletter, which has been helping residents keep track of local healthcare services since early 2025.
NEPHA Chair and Kimba Mayor Dean Johnson said the positive response from the community showed there was a real need for a central place where people could easily find healthcare information.
“We heartily thank the community members who engaged with our consultation during 2025 and continue to give us feedback. Community members are consistently telling us they value the newsletter and want us to continue it, so we will,” he said.
Bringing Health Services Together In One Place
The website forms part of NEPHA’s Regional Coordination Service, a federally funded project designed to improve awareness of healthcare services while helping connect communities with existing and future providers.
Alongside the website, NEPHA has recruited a locally based Regional Coordinator to work with healthcare providers, councils and community organisations to identify opportunities to attract additional primary healthcare services across the region.
Mayor Johnson said people living in rural communities deserved the same access to healthcare as anyone else.
“All Australians deserve good healthcare, whether we live in Sydney, Adelaide, Port Lincoln or rural Eyre Peninsula, but we all know it is harder to sustain services in remote areas like ours,” he said.
Built By The Community, For The Community
“We have designed the Regional Coordination Service in response to the community’s voices and ideas heard during consultation. We hope to test these tools and strategies and demonstrate how they can build capacity in our region that we believe will help to attract, develop and retain our local medical workforce.”
The Regional Coordination Service is funded until December 2027 through the Commonwealth Government’s Innovative Models of Care program, with support from the Eyre and Far North Local Health Network and research partner Adelaide University.
The website is currently being trialled, with NEPHA encouraging residents to use the service and provide feedback to help demonstrate its value and support future funding.
Community information sessions will also be held across the region in coming months, giving residents the chance to explore the new website and learn more about the healthcare services available in their local area.
For more information, visit www.nepha.com.au.
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