Issue 75

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Remote country town street
Editorial
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People writing at a table
There is no stopping interprofessional education research
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Mature man exercising
Move with Mates program a boost for mental health
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Tresillian Coffs Harbour Family Care Centre team out the front of the centre.
Tresillian goes rural for parents and children
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Rural medical centre
Budget delivers big for small town Australia
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Five-year-old AJ from the Parkes Shire having just had his hearing tested.
Partnerships build capacity to support children
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Cloudy skied, flooded dirt track
Scoping the way for psychiatry in rural, regional and remote Australia
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Rural pharmacy
Community pharmacists and universities improving frontline support
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A bush-informed model combining face-to-face clinics and telehealth support is achieving significant traction in staff retention.
Are we asking the right question on workforce issues?
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Dr Melanie Johnson (right) with partner Dr Heather Waterfall.
Ultrasound investment in compassionate care
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Carol Barbeler (Gippsland Region Palliative Care Consortium), Irene Murphy (Gippsland Regional Palliative Care Consultancy Service and one of the authors of the original tool) and Dr Eli Ristevski (Monash Rural Health).
Improving after-hours palliative care in Gippsland
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(Left to right) Dillon Ong, Dr Claire Ronaldson, Michael Lam, Sian Morgan and Kelly Zhou (seated). Missing: Aditya Sathe.
Region-specific research to help guide future dermatology workforce
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Group of people and students holding dragon boat paddles
Experience helping attract rural dental workforce
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Zoom meeting with multiple participants
Healthier futures for girls in Solomon Islands
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Cowra hospital.
Evaluating medical training in a small country town
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Mother and baby leaning on tree
Collaborations to support isolated new mums
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Students with laptops sitting together
Pathway to success for rural higher education students
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Encore Program participants learn from guest speakers at Parkes Community Centre.
Survivorship – life’s encore
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Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Kelly Ridley
New support line extends expertise of psychiatrists to GPs in the Great Southern
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Animation slide from video
Rural research into violence leads to educational resource
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Rozonda in Thumbs Up! workshop.
Good Tucker app promoting health nutrition in the Top End
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Kids from HipHop2SToP video
HipHop2SToP: Community driven and designed skin health promotion
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Jesse Butler, NT Program Manager.
Finding superheros – Starlight’s recruitment challenge
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Dr Anna Cunningham.
Improving teacher wellbeing in remote Queensland
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RDN CEO, Richard Colbran; Federal Member for Calare, Andrew Gee; Dr Ros Bullock; Minister for Regional Health, Mark Coulton; Senator for NSW, Perin Davey. Launching Collaborative Care in the Canola Fields, November 2020.
Partnering to address rural health workforce challenges
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Registrar Dr Jarrod de Jong, who completed his FARGP through NTGPE.
NT leading the way across Australia in advanced rural general practice
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Community sessions talking about the proposals for an Indigenous Voice have taken place across the country, including in Townsville (pictured).
Indigenous Voice to support lasting change
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Farmers Mick and Rosey Leeming took a few hours off the farm to pilot the Farmer HAT.
The HAT fits every farmer using online health tool
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Taylah Burrows, Taylah Durden, Chloe Petts, Lara Blackburn and Ashlee Thomas are the first five social work students selected for the new Shepparton Community Share internships in 2020. Photo courtesy of Shepparton News.
Shepparton internship program creating ‘home-grown’ social workers
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SCHS logo with Simone Heald, CEO of Sunraysia Community Health Services. Michele Conlin, PhD student.
Local research collaboration to improve rural health
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Iron tablet illustration
Early detection and intervention to easily treat hereditary haemochromatosis
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Medical Speciality Decision-making Research Project Forum
‘Quality experience’ research strengthening GP workforce
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Remote Area Nurse using RPHC Manual.
New acute assessment protocols for remote primary health care
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Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health staff from across each of our sites along the Central Australian Corridor.
Flinders University rural and remote health staff perspectives on research
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Tackling Indigenous Smoking logo over a cigarette butt
Supporting remote health workers to tackle Indigenous smoking
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Dylan (health & wellbeing coach), Alicia and Emily (physiotherapy students) at walu-win, Orange Aboriginal Medical Service.
Innovative interprofessional allied health student placements
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Kurrajong Therapy Plus (left to right): Scarlett Sobota (physiotherapist), Katie Rudgley (physiotherapist), Tayce Morath (occupational therapist), Debbie Young (Manager of Kurrajong), Sarah McKern (speech pathologist), Riley Nichols-Ashcroft (speech pathologist).
Workforce benefits of industry–university research partnerships
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Leigh Higgins
Ambulance volunteer’s lifelong service recognised
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Man getting his teeth checked
New approaches needed to fill gaps in rural dental care
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People clapping in seated class room
Using digital resources in mental health
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Two women looking at a document at a desk
Supporting rural people living with diabetes