Acknowledgements

Goulburn Valley Primary Care Partnership and Central Health Interpreter Service and our project partners Campaspe PCP and the Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District, would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions made by members of the Steering Committee and Reference Group for the “Quality Languages Services in Rural Primary Care Settings” project, and participants in the four pilot projects undertaken to develop and field test the best practice approaches described in this toolkit. A full list of acknowledgements is included in Appendix A.

In particular we wish to thank Ms. Sigrid Van Fondern, project officer, who co-ordinated and supported the best practice pilot projects and has been instrumental in preparing this toolkit.