15 NRHC Recommendations

Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Until the recent development of the 'Advance Care Yarning' app, there has been a distinct lack of culturally sensitive End of Life resources available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We wish to impress upon our leaders the importance of early, culturally sensitive... more

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Theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
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Limited Licence radiographers facilitate the performing of certain investigations in our smaller, more remote communities. They save time and money that would otherwise be spent transporting patients to larger centres for what are often only fairly minor investigations. We recommend the... more

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Bring back Health Workforce Australia - or at least some enduring mechanism that brings Health, Higher Education, government (states and Commonwealth) and others together for workforce planning relevant to areas (like rural) and settings (like aged care, primary care etc) of need.

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Minister Bridget McKenzie should reflect on previous remarks and commit to improving the health and wellbeing of members of the LGBTQ+ community across Australia.

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Commitment to funding of vocational specialist training networks in regional, rural and remote Australia is essential in addressing the shortfall of specialist medical services in these areas.

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Theme: Workforce education and training
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Diversional Therapist are now university trained professionals with specialist training in implementing and facilitating patient, residents and community leisure programs that enhance well-being. They are often undervalued in the allied health professions. They could be utilised more to bring... more

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Theme: Workforce education and training
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Change the paradigm around using metro resources to support rural and remote communities - clever partnerships driven by rural and remote players to target these resources to fill gaps, rather than leaving it to metro providers to target resources on their own. Role for PHNs?

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Theme: Access
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Proactively utilise the Pregnancy, Birth and Baby Health Direct Service to support rural and remote communities, with State Governments taking a lead to make this happen.

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Theme: Comprehensive primary health care
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Health professionals should talk to their patients about their alcohol consumption and we should work with health professionals to help them be comfortable to tackle this tricky topic.

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Theme: Workforce education and training
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Delegates should join the End Alcohol Advertising in Sport campaign of which the Country Women's Association of Australia are a supporter. This will help address some of the commercial and social determinants of health by stopping alcohol ads to kids.

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Concurrent Session Recommendation

Alcohol causes significant harm to rural communities. We need to address this unacceptable burden by putting in place fiscal policies, restricting the availability of alcohol and effectively regulate advertising so children are not exposed to alcohol ads.

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Theme: Social determinants of health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Perpetrators of abuse of older persons often do not see themselves as perpetrators. Therefore this problem may be part of a broader issue in society, where we need have conversations and increase community understanding of what constitutes abuse.

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Theme: Elder abuse and ageism
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Organisations on the ground in rural and remote communities, such as Frontier Services, report shocking evidence of poor mental health, such as high suicide rates, in mining communities. The geographical and social isolation, and fly in / fly out nature of the work may be contributing. Mining... more

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Theme: Social determinants of health
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Providing effective and comprehensive care for older people is complex. A new approach to remunerating GPs for providing services in RACFs required. Bundled payment acknowledging cost of providing comprehensive care both in and out of hours.

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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The true picture of heart disease in Australia.
The Heart Foundation would like to expand the Australian Heart Maps to further unlock health inequities in CVD. Your opinion on next steps would be invaluable. This could be in relation to access to services, specific conditions, population... more

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Theme: Social determinants of health
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Consulting with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to determine their information needs about alcohol and other drug use.

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Theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Concurrent Session Recommendation

That women are given clear and accurate information about alcohol and drug use in pregnancy.

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Theme: Social determinants of health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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That the National Rural Health Alliance develops an 'equity impact assessment' methodology similar to that used by the Heart Foundation in order to assess and report on policy announcements, relevant funding announcements and election promises by politicians and governments.

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Since the roll out of the NDIS, a crisis has developed in the availability and delivery of disability services in regional and remote Australia. This is due to the thin markets in smaller communities that make delivery of fee for service clinical operations nonviable. In summary, the current... more

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Delegate Recommendation

that the government immedicatley raise the NEW start allowance to a living wage as poverty begets poor health status

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Theme: Other