Southern General Practice Network (SGPN) has been working on establishing a doctor's surgery at the seaside hamlet for more than 18 months and the doors are due to open next month.

Excited to be moving to the South Coast, Dr Martin Riley will be taking up the general practitioner's position at Tuross Head.

"I've been looking at moving to the coast for a few years," he said.

"My family circumstances have reached the point I can do it."

Dr Riley says both his children would be studying at university this year, so it was the right time for he and his wife to make the move.

He said he first started thinking about moving to the region a few years ago, after visiting Tuross Head for the first time in 1996 and returning every couple of years for a holiday.

The 59-year-old will start on March 1 and has decades of years experience working in rural health.

Dr Riley had a rural practice in a practice in a practice in Coonabarabrann for five years and Dubbo for seven years, before moving to Canberra where he has been working in a Queanbeyan clinic since 2003.

"It's a little like going back to grass roots and combining coastal living," he said.

"I like the people in rural environments. I like the sort of breadth of practice."

SGPN received a Federal Government grant worth $212,000 in June for the project of establishing a general practice in Tuross Head.

The network secured a shopfront in the Tuross Head shopping centre, next door to the hairdresser.

"The practice will comprise of three consulting rooms and a waiting area and we will employ a practice nurse and reception staff to work with the GP," SGPN chief executive officer Kym Batt said.

"Patients will also have access to SGPN's counselling service, footcare nurse and dietitian."

SGPN has set up its own business arm to operate the general practice and contract the GP and practice staff.