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