SARRAH 2006 Conference

Wednesday 13 September

PLENARY 1

Welcome to the Conference
Michael Bishop, President, SARRAH
Dale Howe, Conference Convenor

Welcome to Albury
Arthur Fraunfelder, Mayor of Albury

Address by Major Sponsor
Linda Cutler, Executive Director of the NSW Institute of Rural Clinical Services and Teaching on behalf of NSW Health

Opening Ceremony
Acknowledgment of Traditional Owners and Welcome
Indigenous welcome
Choir

Rural Health Landscape
Professor John Humphreys [PPT presentation]

 

Thursday 14 September

PLENARY 2

Opening statements, recommendation process, housekeeping
Shelagh Lowe

Regional and remote health, and the quantification of the allied health workforce
Andrew Phillips, AIHW

Working in the grey … a very colourful world!
Kelly McTaggart, CEO North and West Queensland Primary Health Care Association [PPT presentation]

CONCURRENT SESSION A

A1—Building bridges to better health

w       Rural interprofessional education in Australia: networking to fill the vacuum?
Susan Waller

w       Defining allied health
Shelagh Lowe [PPT presentation]

w       Allied health by design: solutions in rural private practice
Lisa Staples [PPT presentation]

A2—Building bridges to future workforce and health services

w       Recruitment and retention of allied health workers in rural and remote primary health care: are the issues understood?
Julaine Allan, Kerri Whittenbury [PPT presentation]

w       Allied Health New Recruits Orientation Workshops
LuJuana Abernathy, Karen Bell

w       An innovative model to attract and retain allied health professionals in rural areas
Sue Davies

w       Recruiting staff in tough times
Meredith Padgett [PPT presentation]

A3—Crossing borders: policy, funding, sectors, jurisdictions

w       Leaky margins crossing borders: the need for intersectoral collaboration to build healthy remote and rural communities
Michael Bishop

w       Recruitment and retention strategy for allied health in the Central Hume Primary Care Partnership—a model development
Kate Cuss

w       Applying organisational behaviour theories to improve rural allied health recruitment and retention
Chris Challis

A4—Building bridges from students to rural and remote health workforce

w       Innovation in field education support
Narelle Campbell [PPT presentation]

w       Planning and evaluating positive rural electives for undergraduates
Elizabeth Williams [PPT presentation]

w       Building bridges in rural and remote allied health professional education: the James Cook University experience
Yvonne Thomas, Ilsa Nielsen, Wendy Pearce [PPT presentation]

w       After rural placement, what next? Factors associated with entry into rural workforce
Ivan Lin [PPT presentation]

PLENARY 3—SPLIT PLENARY

Split plenary 3A—The future health workforce

w       Allied health therapy assistants—competency standards
Di Lawson, Skills Industry Council [PPT presentation]

w       Occupational change and the Australian health workforce: future scenarios for allied health and the rural and remote sector
Rosalie Boyce, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland [PPT presentation]

w       Allied health—planning for the future from a state perspective
Brenda McLeod, NSW Chief Allied Health Advisor

w       Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No … it’s an allied health professional
Joanne Symons, North and West Queensland Primary Health Care

Split plenary 3B—Measuring what counts—knowledge transfer

w       Measuring what counts—the Australian Allied Health Classification System—a refresher, update and questions
Glenys Cockfield [PPT presentation]

w       Practical measures for evaluating outcomes: development and use of the Australian Therapy Outcome Measures (AusTOMs)
Jemma Skeat, AusTOMs research officer [PPT presentation]

w       Measuring what counts: evaluating services provided by allied health teams in remote Australia
Karen O’Rourke, Torres Woolley
[PPT presentation]

w       You’ve collected data: what now?
Saravana Kumar, Centre for Allied Health Evidence

PLENARY 4
Chair: Shelagh Lowe

Overview from split plenary sessions and Panel Discussion
Facilitator: Terry Laidler

 

Friday 15 September

PLENARY 5
Chair: Dale Howe

Key elements to the Indigenous Diabetic Foot Project
Jason Warnock

NRHN Session [PPT presentation]

North and West Queensland Primary Health Care community-based workers
Karen O’Rourke, Katherine Galligan, North and West Queensland Primary Health Care [PPT presentation]

CONCURRENT SESSION B

B1—Building bridges to better health

w       Daughters of the Land
Jennie Hermiston

w       Sharing knowledge on the road to employment: vocational rehabilitation strategies for mature-aged men
Donna Currie [PPT presentation]

w       Active Ageing Program
Merrin Moran [PPT presentation]

w       University rural clinical placements—who gets them and what makes them successful?
Angela Titmuss, Mary-Jessimine Beale

B2—Building bridges to future workforce and health services

w       A methodology for describing the availability and accessibility of allied health services
Linda Wilson [PPT presentation]

w       An investigation of the rural allied health workforce in northern NSW
Tony Smith [PPT presentation]

w       Key attributes of allied health professionals working in very remote and rural communities
Yvonne Thomas [PPT presentation]

w       Mentoring and appreciative inquiry
Tricia Szirom [PPT presentation]

B3—Crossing borders: policy, funding, sectors, jurisdictions

w       The Allied Health in General Practice Project
Debra Schulz [PPT presentation]

w       Implementation of primary health care policy in rural and remote Australia
Shelagh Lowe [PPT presentation]

w       Placement statements: an examination of the clinical practicum crisis from a rural and remote perspective
Michael Bishop [PPT presentation]

B4—Building bridges from students to rural and remote health workforce

w       Educational needs of rural physiotherapists, the development of continuing professional development, and the effect on perceived clinical skills
Adrian Schoo

w       Appointment linked to academic personal and position development package addresses pharmacist recruitment in an area of need
Julia Coyle [PPT presentation]

w       Building the bridges of professional support: a model for supporting rural and remote allied health professionals
Peter Bothams [PPT presentation]

w       “Until you walk in my shoes”: understanding the relationship between rural and remote allied health practitioners and university programs
Anita Barbara

WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1

Indigenous Diabetic Foot Workshop
Jason Warnock

Workshop 2

Working together, working well: ways to improve outcomes for children with learning support needs despite limited resources and Aussie geography!
Lucie Shanahan, Wendy Moore [PPT presentation]

Workshop 3

Workload management—the never-ending challenge
Glenys Cockfield [PPT presentation]

Queensland Health's Demand Management Toolkit: http://www.health.qld.gov.au/health_professionals/allied.asp

Workshop 4

Why do you stay? A workshop investigating the costs and benefits of working in rural areas
Julaine Allan, Judith Crockett, Kerri Whittenbury

CONCURRENT SESSION C

C1—Building bridges to better health

w       Developing regional communication services—a community capacity building approach
Kate Vickers, Kylie Mason [PPT presentation]

w       Evidence-based uses of preventative medications in patients with cardiovascular risks and diseases
Herbert Jelinek [PPT presentation]

w       Bush Nuts—maintaining our workforce to achieve a common outcome
Jennifer Shirtcliff, Elizabeth O’Neil

C2—Building bridges to future workforce and health services

w       Lower back pain screening clinic in a rural region
Elizabeth Williams [PPT presentation]

w       Physio at the frontline: physio in a rural ED
David Sparshott

w       The costs of clinical education for occupational therapy students
Jeannine Millsteed [PPT presentation]

C3—Crossing borders: policy, funding, sectors, jurisdictions

w       Health professional partnerships and their impact on Aboriginal health—an occupational therapist and AHW perspective
Kerry Hooper, Yvonne Thomas [PPT presentation]

w       A comparison of rural speech pathologists’ and consumers’ access and attitudes towards the use of information technology and telecommunications for speech pathology service delivery
Carolyn Dunkley [PPT presentation]

w       Building rural research capacity
Julia Coyle [PPT presentation]

C4—Building bridges from students to rural and remote health workforce

w       Delivering sustainable, nationally recognised training to nutrition and dietetic support staff across Queensland
Helen Still [PPT presentation]

w       Incorporating interprofessional learning into the rural pharmacy curriculum
Susan Taylor [PPT presentation]

w       Knowing your allies: crossing borders in medical education
Susan Waller

 

Saturday 16 September

PLENARY 6

Development of postgraduate studies in community-based rehabilitation
Heather Jensen, Robyn Glynn [PPT presentation]

Indigenous allied health service provision in Central Australia
Erica Whitehead, Sharleen Chilvers, Sharon Evans [PPT presentation]

BISHOP ADDRESS
Looking back to look forward: the historical determinants of rural women’s health and well-being?
Professor Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne [PPT presentation]

CONCURRENT SESSION D

D1—Building bridges to better health

w       Physiotherapy for Indigenous Australians in rural and remote areas: a survey report
Kerren Clark

w       Working with Australian Indigenous communities
Heather Jensen [PPT presentation]

w       Does training physiotherapists in regional settings increase rural recruitment?
Megan Smith [PPT presentation]

w       Improving allied health services for Indigenous people in a regional WA town
Ivan Lin

D2—Building bridges to future workforce and health services

w       Rural dental workforce enhancement: the establishment of a sustainable interprofessional model
Adrian Schoo [PPT presentation]

w       The Roma District Virtual Support Project: connecting allied health services and classroom teachers in south-west Queensland
Kathryn McCulloch

w       Enhancing the health of rural communities by providing rehabilitation services closer to home
Julie Pryor, Teena Campbell, Bev Morrisey, Jo Sutton, Sarah Langford [PPT presentation]

w       Creating rural speech pathologists and rural speech pathology services: using a partnership model to expand educational and service opportunities in rural NSW and Victoria
Ruth Beecham [PPT presentation]

D3—Crossing borders: policy, funding, sectors, jurisdictions

w       Allied health service delivery models—can a private model work in a remote area?
Janelle Amos [PPT presentation]

w       Evaluation of the introduction of professional practice supervision to all allied health staff in the Rockhampton health district
Kim Erickson, Ngari Bean

w       Old clinicians don’t die … they become project officers. How to re‑invent yourself when you want a change
Cas Ingham, Craig Shields, Lynne Lambell

WORKSHOP

Workshop 5

Funding applications—hints and tips for completing applications for grants, scholarships
Facilitators: Michael Bishop [PPT presentation]