Papers from the 7th National Rural Health Conference Papers from the 7th National Rural Health Conference are available online by following the links within the program sessions below. Poster Abstracts are now available online and are listed at the end of the program. Please note that for presenters who were unable to provide a full paper, where possible we have published their abstract or speakers notes. Also note that all papers are in Adobe PDF format.  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view the papers.  Files are between 180 kB and 770 kB in size.

Saturday 1 March 2003 2.00 pm Registration Desk and Conference Office open OPENING SESSION—PLENARY 1 5.00 pm Opening Ceremony Featuring the Tasmanian Aboriginal Health Service, arts performers, incorporating video clips from 2001 Conference and community video stories Welcome to all participants Shelagh Lowe, Convenor, Conference Organising Committee Nigel Stewart, NRHA Chairperson Vivian Schenker, Conference Chair Welcome to Tasmania Hon David Llewellyn, Minister for Health and Human Services Welcome to Hobart Alderman Rob Valentine, Lord Mayor 5.40 pm Official Opening Hon Kay Patterson, Minister for Health and Ageing 6.00 pm KEYNOTE 1 Florence Manguyu, Consultant Paediatrician in Clinical Practice in Nairobi, Kenya People, poverty and prosperity in health 6.20 pm The Shouting Choir 6.30 pm Welcome Reception with entertainment by "Harlem Lounge"   Sunday 2 March 2003 8.00 am Registration Desk and Conference Office opens Exhibition opens PLENARY 2 8.30 am Opening Video — video clips from previous Conferences and images of rural and remote health Frank Meany 8.35 am Opening of day Vivian Schenker, Conference Chair 8.40 am KEYNOTE 2 — INDIGENOUS PLACE Henry Councillor, Deputy Chair, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Healing the divisions 9.00 am KEYNOTE 3 — ENVIRONMENT AND POPULATION Mike Montgomery, President, Australian Local Government Association State of the regions: environment, population and health 9.25 am Formal Opening of the Exhibition Lawrence Paratz, Regional Managing Director, Telstra Country Wide, Southern Region (Victoria and Tasmania) 9.35 am – 9.40 am Preparing for Concurrent Sessions and Evaluation 9.45 am – 10.30 am Concurrent Session A A1 Special open forum on drought Chair: Megan McNicholl 9.45 am Delegates are invited to bring their own reports and images of the social and environmental impacts of the current drought A2 Chair: Robyn Adams 9.45 am Who cares for our health? — Lee Vause 10.10 am The Graduate Assistance and Partnerships Program — Chris Bryg A3 Chair: Mark Dunn 9.45 am The development and implementation of a full webster packing service in rural NSW — Mandy Cooper, Carl Cooper 10.10 am General Practice Education and Training—regionalisation, integration and innovation — Bill Coote A4 Chair: Steve Clark 9.45 am Eye health promotion by optometrists in rural Victoria — Ben Harris 10.10 am Gettin em n keepin em — a report of the Indigenous Nursing Education Working Group   — Sally Goold A5 Chair: Chris Shoemaker 9.45 am The way of the Isa — rural sexual assault service delivery — Kaye Byrnes 10.10 am The self-expression, gentle exercise and music (SEGEM) group: a multi-disciplinary exercise group — Tara Crossman, Rosemary Brigden A6 Chair: Louise Lawler 9.45 am The National Framework for Improving the Health and Well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Males — Mick Adams 10.10 am Sustaining the intent of policy into practice: a framework for service delivery   — Daniela Stehlik, Lesley Chenoweth A7 Chair: David Lindsay 9.45 am Towards Unity for Health applied—the pentagon of partnership as a basis for a regional workforce structure — Ian Cameron 10.10 am Connectivity, television and rural health: distance learning for health professionals throughout Australia — Don Perlgut [abstract only] A8 Chair: Susan Stratigos 9.45 am Applying a grief model to working with pastoralists — Rosalyn Darracott 10.10 am It depends what you expect from life — factors which influence medical students to choose a rural career — Helen Tolhurst 10.30 am MORNING TEA 11.15 am – 12.15 pm Presentation and discussion of Healthy Horizons Outlook 2003-2007 Kim Snowball and members of Rural Sub-committee of AHMAC 11.15 am – 12.25 pm Concurrent Session B B1 Measuring access and isolation (1) Chair: Sue Wade 11.15 am Access to health services in densely populated rural regions — Sharon Kosmina 11.40 am Equity of access for rural health services — mapping of community-based services — Anne Lea 12.05 pm Medically underserved communities of Queensland — Denis Lennox B2 Carers in the country Chair: Irene Mills 11.15 am Family carers’ health and well-being and community capacity building in rural areas — Rosemary Warmington 11.40 am What price early discharge? Informal caregiving in home-based rehabilitation — Briony Dow 12.05 pm Caring for a partner: the impact of resources on caregivers’ health in rural and urban Tasmania — Anne Rutherford-Kitson B3 Food and teeth Chair: Janine Watts 11.15 am Developing innovative and flexible community nutrition service delivery in rural Tasmania —Alison Ward 11.40 am Applying primary health care principles to dental service delivery in rural communities in Tasmania — Rosemary Cane 12.05 pm Eating with Friends — Jackie Dermody B4 National Health Priority Areas Chair: Shelagh Lowe 11.15 am Visibility in rural Australia: the way forward for consumers and carers — Grace Groom 11.40 am Allergies and asthma in the rural setting — Christopher Luttrell 12.05 pm The challenge of developing and evaluating local programs in breast cancer care: the Strengthening Support for Women with Breast Cancer program — Danielle Campbell B5 Fishing, swimming and well-being Chair: Sabina Knight 11.15 am Fishing for health: building social cohesion in Charleville — Jill Carroll, Carmel Baker 11.40 am Impact of swimming pools on health of Aboriginal children in two remote WA communities — Mary Tennant (abstract only) 12.05 am Mining town residents creating a place for remote area relocators — the role of community social support groups in facilitating the psychological well-being of new residents — Natasha Honczarov, Kathy Wooldridge (abstract only) B6 Honing the hospital Chair: Judith Adams 11.15 am Local risk management — quality care in action — Steve Latter 11.40 am Hospital familiarisation project — Colin Weetra [abstract only] 12.05 pm After Hours Triage Training and Education Program in rural South Australia   — Jenny Fleming, Karen Sumner B7 Art of place 11.15 am Tragical — comical — historical — pastoral: acting out aspects of rural practice — Martin London [abstract only] B8 Emergency medicine and trauma Chair: Jon Lane 11.15 am Emergency medicine network for rural Tasmania — Peter Arvier 11.40 am Rural emergency skills training — David Campbell, Veeraja Uppal 12.05 pm Airways as a health service: the continuing role of the RFDS in emergency evacuation   — Duncan Grant, Susan Markwell 12.30 pm LUNCH PLENARY 3 1.40 pm ARTIVAL ONE Sue Moss, Performance Poet 1.45 pm KEYNOTE 4 — COMMUNITY PLACE Louise Sylvan, Chief Executive, Australian Consumers’ Association Consumers, community and social capital 2.05 pm KEYNOTE 5 — MAINTAINING THE MOMENTUM IN RURAL HEALTH Nigel Stewart, Chairperson, National Rural Health Alliance 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Sunday Symposiums Symposium A Unveiling the secrets of the allied health workforce — led by Ann O’Kane and Rob Curry Symposium B Sustaining rural and remote area nursing — led by David Lindsay Symposium C Road safety: the rural dimension – led by Joe Motha Symposium D Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet - a model of knowledge sharing for the health sector — led by Neil Thomson Symposium E The art of healthy community: a Tasmanian retrospective — led by Sue Moss 3.30 pm AFTERNOON TEA   Concurrent Session C C1 Measuring access and isolation (2) Chair:Jane Greacen 4.10 pm Can the national palliative care framework work in a rural area? – Ian Hatton 4.35 pm Quality key performance indicators — for primary health care community-based services   — Sue Wade 5.00 pm Meeting the family support needs of rural GPs via a rural community development approach   — Helen Cheney, Erin Wilson C2 Rural practice Chair:Jenny May 4.10 pm Rural practice as a desired career option for health professionals — Karen Francis 4.35 pm The NSW Rural and Remote Aboriginal Nursing Strategy — Raymond Lovett 5.00 pm Which way where? Sustainable and flexible models for psychology service delivery in Rural New South Wales — Karen Wylie, Robyn Vines C3 Regional health services Chair:Sue McAlpin 4.10 pm Linking a community — Mark Stemm, Coralanne Hill 4.35 pm Partnerships in action — development of quality human services in remote communities   — Rachel Beisiegel 5.00 pm Leap tall buildings with a single bound? Not a problem (provided you’ve got a building!)   — Elaine Ashworth, Kristine Battye C4 Diabetes Chair:Judi Walker 4.10 pm Indigenous diabetes: how can we improve health outcomes? — Noel Hayman 4.35 pm Some key elements for developing a case management model of care to optimise outcomes in diabetes in a rural setting — Judith Artridge 5.00 pm Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service Inc: a joint initiative with CKAHS in chronic diseases self-management — Judith Borg C5 Child and family health Chair:Nigel Stewart 4.10 pm Impact of partnerships on the primary health care approach to a program in rural Western Australia — Maeva Hall 4.35 pm Health services for young people - how do you rate? — Warren Bartik 5.00 pm Innovative access to health services for young people in rural and remote areas — Bernard Denner C6 Cancer Chair:David Lindsay 4.10 pm Community cancer support for women with breast cancer: the development of a self-help breast cancer support group — Lera O’Connor, Judy Shepherdson 4.35 pm Cancer case management—leading all players in the team — Stuart Willder C7 Arts in health 4.10 pm The Island — Alchemy C8 Dementia Chair:Judith Adams 4.10 pm Fragmented and forgotten: people with dementia in a community setting — Lesley Pearson 4.35 pm Rural Tasmanian dementia health care model — Mollie Campbell-Smith 5.00 pm Dementia or detentia? — Susan Brumby 5.30 pm LIGHT FOOD AND DRINKS AVAILABLE 6.15 pm – 8.00 pm A Night at the Theatre (included with Full Registration) Featuring the Bakelite Girls, Wendy McPhee in a dark comedy called Recipe for Double Happiness and the PopEyed Circus Theatre   Monday 3 March 2003 8.00 am Registration Desk and Conference Office opens Exhibition open PLENARY 4 8.30 am Opening Video — video clips and images Frank Meany 8.35 am KEYNOTE 6 — STUDENT VOICE Juanita Rayner, Jon Lane, Karina Vila, Fionna Hadden, Olivia O’Donoghue, Carli Dolinski, National Rural Health Network Rural health professionals of the future 8.50 am KEYNOTE 7 — WRITERS’ VOICES Danielle Wood, Rachael Treasure, Authors, Journalists and Dog lovers Unleashing the rural voice 9.10 am Special Presentations: Des Murray Scholarship — presented by Mary Murray – Brett Gibson from Emerald, Queensland – Monica Walley from Port Lincoln, South Australia Louis Ariotti Award — presented to Roger Strasser by Marie Pietsch for Queensland Health 9.35 am ARTERACTE TWO The Dog Within — Terrapin Puppet Theatre 9.45 am KEYNOTE 8 — FINDING YOUR COMMUNITY VOICE Larry Towney, Aboriginal Program Manager, Central West Centacare Three Rivers Men’s Program — the power of the yarn 10.10 am KEYNOTE 9 — VOICES FROM AFAR Sarah and Roger Strasser, Northern Ontario Medical School, Canada Australia viewed from "up over" 10.30 am MORNING TEA 10.45 am – 12.30 pm Australian Rural Health Education Network Addressing rural and remote health workforce issues: what role for University Departments of Rural Health? — Judith Walker, David Lyle, John Beard, Marlene Drysdale, Jason Mifsud, Dennis Pashen 11.15 am – 12.25 pm Concurrent Session D D1 Grassroots voices Chair:Ann O’Kane 11.15 am Rural consumers’ complaints about health services — Beth Wilson 11.40 am Planning with rural communities: to hit and not to miss — Meredith Hodgson 12.05 pm Community building medical service capacity — Denis Lennox D2 Heal thyself Chair: Jane Greacen 11.15 am Doctor, heal thyself  — Sally Roach 11.40 am Rural social welfare practice: stories from the western region of Victoria — Rosemary Green 12.05 pm Well-being in the rural and remote health workplace: what’s happening out there?   — Barbara Kennedy D3 Examining the premise for recruitment programs (1) Chair:Peter Brown 11.15 am Elements of rural practitioner retention: a synthesis of four related research projects   — Richard Hayes presenting on behalf of Craig Veitch 11.40 am Evidence-based rural health career promotion —Janice Chesters, Heather Kelly 12.05 pm Rural retention payments: lessons from the front — Mike Seward D4 Sustaining regional communities (1) Chair:Keith Fletcher 11.15 am Issues for rural analysis of national data sets — Andrew Phillips 11.40 am Community building in practice: the Victorian Government’s Boards of Management training for rural health services — Ian Pollerd, Mariastella Pulvirenti 12.05 pm Corporate farming and community participation — what can they offer each other? — Lyn Talbot D5 Women and health Chair:Marie Lally 11.15 am Ensuring access to pharmacy services in rural Australia – Bruce Robertson, Karalyn Huxhagen presenting on behalf of Fiona Thornberry, Lance Emerson 11.40 am From conception to birth — a holistic approach to midwifery: yes, it can happen in a public rural facility — Chris Giles 12.05 pm Risk and childbirth in rural and remote Australia — Sue Kildea D6 Recruitment and retention in rural practice Chair: Victoria Gilmore 11.15 am Health Careers in the Bush: encouraging and supporting the recruitment of rural and remote, Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to the health professions — Natalie Hindmarsh 11.40 am The time is RIPE for community-based interprofessional education — Nick Stone 12.05 pm Enhancing the interface between visiting medical practitioners and hospital staff in Kalgoorlie   — Philip Reid D7 Indigenous health Chair: Leigh Cupitt 11.15 am Indigenous palliative care poster project — Andrew Taylor 11.40 am Doing "best practice" before we knew it was: the evolution of an Aboriginal primary health care service in Tasmania — Heather Sculthorpe 12.05 pm The "NACCHO Ear Trial" — Aboriginal community controlled clinical research. Community controlled — not just community based —Sophie Couzos D8 Chronic disease Chair: Bruce Harris 11.15 am Caring for people with a chronic illness: a place for the voluntary sector — Eli Ristevski 11.40 am Chronic disease self-management — a health management approach for patients in rural and remote communities — Peter Harvey Gary Misan 12.05 pm Creating accessible pulmonary rehabilitation in a rural area health service — Cecily Barrack 12.30 pm LUNCH PLENARY 5 1.30 pm Delegates’ Corner 1.35 pm ARTIZALL THREE Cinderella and the Hairy Godmother 1.45 pm KEYNOTE 10 — A VOICE FOR THE SECTOR Nigel Stewart, Chairperson, NRHA Members of Council of the NRHA 1.50 pm– 2.15 pm KEYNOTE 11 — USING YOUR COMMUNITY VOICE Fay White, Community Facilitator The voice of healthy community 2.20 pm – 3.30 pm Concurrent Session E E1 Allied health Chair:Jason Warnock 2.20 pm Towards defining rural and remote "allied health" professions — Robyn Adams, Shelagh Lowe [abstract only] 2.45 pm Strengthening allied health in rural Victoria: a strategic program to enhance interdisciplinary continuing professional education and capacity building — Clare O’Reilly 3.10 pm Allied Health Professional Enhancement Program — LuJuana Abernathy E2 Pharmacy: co-morbidity Chair:Mark Dunn 2.20 pm Do rural pharmacists really do health promotion outside pharmacies? Preliminary results for rural health — Helen Howarth 2.45 pm The Emergency Locum Service: meeting rural pharmacists’ emergency needs   — Bruce Robertson presenting on behalf of Neil Anderson 3.10 pm From little things big things grow — an ANCD initiative for substance use and mental health in rural and regional settings — Karen Price E3 Examining the premise for recruitment programs (2) Chair:Peter Brown 2.20 pm Recruiting and retaining rural general practitioners: a mismatch between the research evidence and current initiatives? — John McDonald 2.45 pm City slick with country know-how: implications of supporting students from urban backgrounds for the future of rural nursing — Kerry Anne Taylor, Jane Neill 3.10 pm Mentoring – myth or magic? – Carmel Brophy E4 Sustaining regional communities (2) Chair:Keith Fletcher 2.20 pm How should GPPAC advise the federal health minister? — Jill Maxwell 2.45 pm Sustaining healthy rural communities through viable rural medical practices — David Mildenhall 3.10 pm Improving Indigenous access to a mainstream general practice — Noel Hayman E5 Supporting the Indigenous health workforce Chair:Colleen Prideaux 2.20pm Indigenous pathways — making tracks — Nick Heyne 2.45 pm Getting partnerships right in rural and remote WA — Darryl Kickett 3.10 pm Increasing the Indigenous Registered Nurse workforce through local action in the Torres Strait – David Lindsay E6 Mental health care Chair:John Lawrence 2.20 pm Obstacles to outcome measurement in rural mental health care — Samar Aoun (abstract only) 2.45 pm Recent trends in rural suicide and community-based suicide prevention in rural areas — Michael Dudley, Martin Harris 3.10 pm The Department of Veterans’ Affairs Men’s Health Peer Education project — Helen Westbury E7 Arts in health 2.20 pm Singing for health and community — a community singing workshop — Fay White [abstract only] E8 Local success stories Chair:Nigel Jefford 2.20 pm Volunteer ambulance officers find a voice — Christine Fahey, Judi Walker 2.45 pm Easy entry — gracious exit: testing new models for doctor recruitment and retention in chronically underserviced rural communities — Mark Lynch 3.10 pm Saving HELIMED: the power of community action in country Victoria — Peter O’Meara, Terry Houge 3.30 pm AFTERNOON TEA 4.10 pm – 5.15 pm Monday Symposiums Symposium A Tasmania Together — led by James McAlpine, Jane Bennett, Lee Prince, Judith Walker Symposium B Sustainable communities and health inequalities — led by Pierre Horwitz, Neil Drew, Neil Thomson, Meredith Green Symposium C Community participation, a mouthful at a time — led by Irene Mills for friends, the CWAA, the ICPA and HCRRA Symposium D Agriculture and rural health — Commonwealth Government perspectives   – Melanie Fisher, Allan Curtis, Stephen Hostetler, Ron Cullen Symposium E The art of healthy community: strengthening rural communities — led by Catherine Murphy, Lisa Phillip-Harbutt 5.15 pm Exhibition Happy Hour 8.00 pm DINNER-DANCE AT CITY HALL   Tuesday 4 March 2003 7.30 am Student Recovery — wharfside muffins — at a secret location known only to the NRHN 8.00 am Registration Desk and Conference Office open Exhibition open PLENARY 6 8.30 am Opening Video — video clips and images Frank Meany 8.45 am KEYNOTE 12 — POLITICAL KNOW-HOW John McGrath, Inaugural Chair, Mental Health Council of Australia Politics and community well-being 9.05 am – 9.25 am KEYNOTE 13 — POLICY KNOW-HOW Kim Snowball, Healthfix Consulting The journey to Healthy Horizons Healthy Horizons: outlook 2003–2007 9.30 am – 10.40 am Concurrent Session F F1 Infront Outback research reports Chair: Robyn Adams 9.30 am "Life is just not the same anymore"—the disability experience — Ansmarie van Erp 9.55 am Recovery of the upper limb after stroke: a survey of stroke survivors — Ruth Barker [abstract only] 10.20 am Inventing cultural heroes: how culture, nationalism and hegemony have shaped the Australian rural and remote health sector. A report on a study in progress — Lesley Fitzpatrick F2 Telehealth and IT Chair: Danielle Hornsby 9.30 am Midwest magical journey — Penny Van Ast, Maeva Hall, Sue McDonald 9.55 am Developing a virtual learning community of managers in rural and remote health services: reflections on opportunities and challenges — Val Roche 10.20 am Telehealth: a national, sustainable approach — Cathy Parkinson, Lisa Hudson, F3 Learning from the past Chair: Sue Wade 9.30 am Program evaluation: a tale of lost opportunities — Peter Orpin 9.55 am Power and politics: a case study of the failure of an evidence-based practice project in two rural communities — John McDonald 10.20 am The agenda for change among female rural general practitioners — Imogen Schwarz F4 Evidence-based practice Chair: Bruce Harris 9.30 am What is evidence-based practice anyway? A rural survey — Angela Murphy 9.55 am Getting evidence into practice for nurses and carers in rural aged care nursing homes   — Ian Blue, Judy Taylor, May Walker-Jeffreys 10.20 am The successful use of clinical practice improvement in a rural health service — Jon Mortimer F5 Symposium: Women’s Health Australia Chair: Victoria Gilmore Introduction — what Women’s Health Australia can tell us about women’s well-being in the bush   — Christina Lee Midlife women’s experiences of seeking help for psychological distress in rural Australia: an overview — Sue Outram Women’s experiences of domestic abuse in rural and remote Australia — Deborah Loxton It’s time to play a bit: mid-age rural women’s leisure and well-being   — Penny Warner-Smith, Peter Brown F6 Integrated care Chair: Jenny May 9.30 am Transport for Health: facilitating access to health services in rural communities — Simon Olsen 9.55 am Southern Agcare: working as a mobile rural psychologist — Helen Byles-Drage 10.20 am Integrated therapy assistants and video-conferencing — Maeva Hall F7 Art of know-how 9.30 am The story of inclusive community: a HEYWIRE event celebrating the role of story in building healthy community — led by Sue George F8 Therapies Chair: Shelagh Lowe 9.30 am The development of a laughter therapy program — Robyn Bishop 9.55 am Introducing therapeutic touch to rural NSW — Sue Gregory, Marg Graham 10.20 am Manutention for agricultural workers — Anne Taylor 10.40 am MORNING TEA PLENARY 7 11.20 am KEYNOTE 14 — MEDIA KNOW-HOW Norman Swan, Medical Communications and Health Broadcaster The media as a change agent 11.40 am Plenary Session — Preliminary presentation of Conference Recommendations and Communique 12.00 pm KEYNOTE 15 — SCIENTIFIC KNOW-HOW Mohan Krishnamoorthy, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Patient-centric health care delivery 12.30 pm LUNCH ON THE WHARF 1.35 pm – 2.20 pm Concurrent Session G G1 Gender and health Chair: Sue McAlpin 1.35 pm Rural women’s involvement in developing midlife health resources — Sarah Hardy 2.00 pm A project-based approach to improving services in reproductive and sexual health in rural areas   — Christine Read G2 Symposium — Rural Education Forum Australia Chair: Irene Mills 1.35 pm Enhancing the capacity of rural education and rural women — led by Megan McNicholl for REFA and Val Lang for the National Rural Women’s Coalition G3 Drought: Indigenous health Chair: Carmel Brophy 1.35 pm Support for those affected by drought — Matthew Cartledge, Peter Humphries 2.00 pm Better health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in rural and remote areas — Mary McDonald G4 Tertiary and specialist outreach Chair: Lynne Sheehan 1.35 pm Darwin — a virtual simulation and outreach centre (non-satellite radiotherapy centre)   — Michael Penniment, Angelo Katsilis 2.00 pm The value-adding contribution of rural specialists to other professionals and the community   — Nigel Stewart G5 Smart recruitment and retention Chair: Lesley Siegloff 1.35 pm Do medical schools have a role in recruitment and retention? Implementing the evidence at the James Cook University School of Medicine — Tarun Sen Gupta 2.00 pm From the Riverland to the Greater Green Triangle: the evolution of the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum — Lucie Walters G6 Hologram 1.35 pm Holding the hologram: practice/policy interactions in "real time" to address the social determinants of health — Jo Dower, Mary King, Sue Sorensen G7 Playback 1.35 pm Reflections on the Conference and its recommendations — Hobart Playback Theatre Company G8 Infrastructure for the elderly in remote Australia Chair: Sabina Knight 1.35 pm Beyond 2002 — what follows the Year of the Outback? — Rosemary Young 2.00 pm Finding solutions: delivering quality aged care in rural and remote Australia — Dianne Beatty PLENARY 8 2.25 pm Circulation of Conference Communique and Recommendations 2.30 pm SPECIAL PRESENTATION Gerry Macdonald, National Executive Director, Royal Flying Doctor Service RFDS 75th Anniversary update 2.45 pm KEYNOTE 16 — LOOKING AHEAD Commissioner Phil Koperberg, NSW Rural Fire Service 3.05 pm Plenary Session — Presentation of Conference Communique 3.45 pm Closing Session Chairperson of NRHA Presentation on 8th Conference in Alice Springs, March 2005, and invitation to Alice Springs from Sabina Knight 4.00 pm FAREWELL DRINKS   Poster Abstracts Youth Suicide - Diane Brokenshire Environmental tobacco smoke and kids - Diana Fisher Food poisoning time bomb - Julia Gill New millennium pedagogies - recipe for success - Louise Lawler Epilepsy and Indigenous Australians - Marilyn Potter Developing a collaborative heart health project in a rural community - Kevin Rowley, Leeandra Aitken Aboriginal health worker training - an important role for pharmacists to improve quality use of medicines in Indigenous communities - AL Sanburg Futures on the Frontiers - Alison Warburton Australian Resource Centre for Hospital Innovations: putting people in touch with each other - Charmaine Weeks