Media Release: Call for abstracts to spread rural and remote health messages
28 May 2010
Health professions, community members and researchers with definitive views on how to improve the lives of people in rural, regional and remote areas are invited to submit abstracts for next year's 11th National Rural Health Conference to be held in Western Australia. The full media release is in the Media Releases section of this website.
Media Release: Local Hospital Networks must be local, not state-wide
20 May 2010
There is mounting concern among people in rural, regional and remote areas that the Rudd Government's proposed Local Hospital Networks will not be local at all. The full media release is in the Media Releases section of this website.
Media Release: Budget: Some good anwers, many questions and a few disappointments
11 May 2010
Tonight's Federal Budget has provided clarification of some of the key elements of health reform, but a great deal is still unclear or unknown as far as people in rural and remotes areas are concerned. The full media release is in the Media Releases section of this website.
Media Release: Major rural health gains not through hospitals
6 April 2010Improving equity in health outcomes across Australia has been identified as the principal cause in the current push for health reform. This is the claim by Gordon Gregory, Executive Director of the National Rural Health Alliance, in the latest issue of the Australian Journal of Rural Health (AJRH). In the same issue of the journal there is an outline of the history of health reform in Australia from 2007 to 2009. Full media release in the Media Releases section of this website.
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