Last Updated: 14 Mar 2010

Welcome to the National Rural Health Alliance 

The Alliance comprises 29 Member Bodies, each a national body in its own right, representing health professionals, service providers, consumers, educators and researchers. The vision of the National Rural Health Alliance is good health and wellbeing in rural and remote Australia, with the specific goal of equal health for all Australians by 2020.


11th National Rural Health Conference 

 

Perth Convention Centre
13-16 March 2011

If you care about the health and wellbeing of people in rural and remote Australia, put the dates in your diary.  Whatever your involvement, whichever your discipline, we want the conference to be useful for you.  Let us know what topics should be dealt with, who you’d like to hear from.  Better still, plan to make a presentation yourself. 

Watch this website for the Call for Abstracts and for program details.


Join friends and receive the updated Rural and Remote Health Papers DVD 

friends of the Alliance is a network of people and organisations working to improve health and well-being in rural and remote Australia by supporting the National Rural Health Alliance.

Join now to receive your membership pack with the updated Rural and Remote Health Papers DVD. The DVD contains the proceedings of all ten National Rural Health Conferences, all Alliance policy documents, annual reports, media releases and newsletters.


Health reform agenda: what will it mean for us? 

Health Reform

What will the proposed health reforms mean for people in rural and remote Australia? How can we ensure that they reach beyond hospitals and metropolitan areas? Which of the proposals before Government will have the best outcomes for country people?

The Health Reform page on this website deals with these critical questions.


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MEDIA RELEASE: Alliance encourages States to support reform blueprint  [html]
The Alliance has encouraged the States and Territories to sign up to the National Health and Hospitals Network blueprint.
MEDIA RELEASE: Patients’ assisted travel  [html]
The Commonwealth Government’s ‘hands-off’ response to the Senate’s Inquiry into patient assisted travel schemes will bitterly disappoint people in rural and remote areas.
SUBMISSION to National Health Workforce Agency  [pdf]
Submission to National Health Workforce Agency on Clinical Placements
MEDIA RELEASE: AJRH ranked as leading rural health journal  [html]
An audit conducted by the Australian Research Council has confirmed the high quality of the Australian Journal of Rural Health (AJRH).  The AJRH’s B ranking in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) system confirms it as the leading peer-reviewed scientific journal serving the Australian rural and remote health sector.
SUBMISSION to Treasurer on 2010 Budget  [html]
The Alliance has made a Submission to the Federal Treasurer on the 2010 Budget.
SUBMISSION on Exposure Draft Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010  [html]
The NRHA has made a submission to the Department of Health and Ageing on the Exposure Draft Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010.
Australian Organ Donor Register  [html]
By registering to become an organ donor you could be making the greatest gift one human being can give another – the gift of life.
Close the gap  [html]
The Close The Gap campaign calls on federal, state and territory governments to commit to closing the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.
The Alliance receives core funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.