The Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative (SRMC) was set up with Scottish Government funding to look at ways of improving the recruitment and retention of remote and rural general practice in Scotland. The SRMC works across 10 health boards – Grampian, Highland, Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles, Dumfries & Galloway, Ayrshire & Arran, Fife, Tayside and Borders – all of which are represented on the programme board, as are NHS Education for Scotland, the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland, the Scottish Rural Health Partnership, the British Medical Association and the Rural GP Association Scotland RGPAS. Working in a rural location offers unique opportunities and challenges. As such, recruitment and support services for medical professionals in these regions need to reflect this. Current services are fragmented and sometimes difficult to coordinate or even identify. The Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative has worked together with 10 NHS boards to identify the barriers seen to diminish the GP workforce in rural Scotland.