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The peak national body for rural health has welcomed $62m to train doctors in rural generalist practice, but says tonight’s budget has largely failed to address a critical shortage of allied health professionals for 7million people living outside metropolitan Australia.
National Rural Health Alliance CEO Mark Diamond said the budget was a mixed bag for rural health.
“We’ve had a...
read moreAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality is the most pressing health issue facing Australia, according to over 1100 delegates at the 15th National Rural Health Conference.
The conference identified priorities for an incoming government on the eve of a federal election including:
Australia’s 15th National Rural Health Conference has opened in Hobart with a big focus on nursing and a call for the abolition of discrimination and racism in health service delivery in remote and rural areas.
In her opening address, New Zealand academic Jane Mills urged nurses to lead the change needed to tackle climate change. “Nurses are so important because they account...
read moreYou are invited to participate in National Rural Health Alliance’s rural, regional and remote workforce training needs to improve mental health services survey.
The purpose of the survey is to find out what are the mental health training needs of the rural, regional and remote workforce to improve mental health care, services and health outcomes.
The Productivity Commission is...
read moreThe federal government roll out of around 180 new mobile base stations in regional cities has been welcomed by the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA), but remote communities should be a priority in an effort to boost telecommunications infrastructure.
NRHA CEO Mark Diamond said this week’s announcement of new mobile base stations is good news for regional communities who require...
read moreRural and regional communities need an urgent boost in health and community services to address the increasing harm caused by over use of alcohol and other harmful drugs, according to the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA).
The release today of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report, ‘Alcohol and other drug use in regional and remote Australia: consumption,...
read moreThere are thousands of good ideas in Australia's rural and remote health sector about how to improve health and wellbeing.
Hundreds of them will be knocking around, looking for oxygen in the Sharing Shed at the 15th National Rural Health Conference in Hobart from 24-27 March 2019.
The 15th National Rural Health Conference is not a talk-fest, it is an event focussed on delivering...
read moreA new study of four social enterprise ventures in regional cities around Australia found significant benefits to participants health and wellbeing by reducing inequalities in health, economic participation and social engagement. The findings will be presented at the 15th National Rural Health Conference in Hobart from 24-27 March.
Researchers from the University of Tasmania, Swinburne...
read moreResearchers from the Rural Clinical School at The University of Queensland have designed a suicide prevention strategy to help reduce the alarming suicide rate among Indigenous Australians in remote and rural communities.
Almost 95 per cent of Indigenous Australians have been impacted by rates of suicide that are more than twice those of the broader community. Importantly, suicide is...
read moreThe Board of the National Rural Health Alliance has voted unanimously to support the Uluru Statement from the Heart, following a lengthy consultative process with Council members.
NRHA Chair, Tanya Lehmann, said the Board’s vote acknowledged the Uluru Statement and the Alliance’s support of the call for Constitutional reform to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and...
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