Participants in the 4th Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium in Canberra last week committed to a National Strategy and Action Plan for maximising the value of rural and remote health research. Below is a statement issued by the National Rural Health Alliance after the symposium, and it is followed by some conference tweets (which […]
A program to bring families and health professionals together on Country has been helping disabled people in a remote community, according to a presentation at the NACCHO Summit in Adelaide yesterday. The program helps to build trust, relationships and respect, and supports participants to identify the solutions that will best help them as “the experts […]
A summit on alcohol and its effects on Aboriginal people and communities in the Northern Territory was held in Darwin on November 16. It was sponsored by Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the NT (APO NT). The purpose was to provide a forum for Aboriginal communities to discuss alcohol. The emphasis was on evidence about what […]
Those with a concern for rural and remote health, for primary healthcare and public health, and for workforce sustainability have reason to worry about the long-term impact of Queensland Health upheavals. In the article below, Professor Sabina Knight, director of the Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health of James Cook University, explains why […]
Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering articles posted between 11 April and 3 September. As always, thanks are due to the many contributors who generously volunteer […]
Regular readers will know of Croakey’s interest in the potential for physician assistants (PAs) to help improve access to health care in rural, remote and other under-served areas. The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) recently endorsed a policy statement giving strong support to the potential of PAs “to extend the reach of […]
Judging by the tweets, it seems there were some interesting sessions at the National Rural Leadership Development Seminar, which wrapped up at Victor Harbour in SA yesterday. You can get a flavour from the reports below. Jim Birch is chair of Rural Health Workforce Australia (And just to confirm Jim Birch’s point about universities failing […]
At the national rural health conference in Perth this week, I gave two presentations. The first was about the opportunities that are rapidly emerging for under-served groups and issues (like rural and remote health) as a result of the digital revolution. A shift is occurring in the power relations between citizens and society’s most powerful […]
As mentioned in a recent Croakey post, the international shortage of health workers was the subject of an international meeting held recently in Bankgok. While delegates heard much about the crisis in health workforce numbers, they also heard some uplifting examples of individuals making a real difference for their communities. Thanks to Dr Kim Webber, […]
The World Health Organization has released the first global recommendations for improving the retention of health workers in remote and rural areas. You might think from the way that we often discuss this issue that it is a peculiarly Australian problem, and one that simply requires us to pay rural doctors more. Wrong on both […]