Increased rates of chronic disease, and an ageing population, require health services to improve how we utlise team-based care to maintain patient outcome and improve quality of life.  While there is broad agreement on the goal, the focus remains on piloting 'innovative models of care' in under-serviced areas rather than delivering innovation models of care.  In rural and remote communities, securing even a single health practitioner can be challenging due to the failure of government rural health and medical workforce programs.  New and proven models are therefore needed to ensure rural and remote people can enjoy the right to universal health care access using technology and innovative partnerships.  The aim of this project was to demonstrate that rural and remote communities have the existing knowledge and skills to immediately begin delivering integrated healthcare, and to build confidence among policy makers that we can move beyond "trials" to implementation of services.