15 NRHC Recommendations

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Recommend that there are at least minimal staffing levels in Maternal and Child Health Services in all Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Communities in the interest of improving health and closing the gap This staffing to include a Child Health Nurse and an Aboriginal and/or Torres... more

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Theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

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Delegate Recommendation

Develop education sessions that provides practical information to undertake strategic workforce planning specific for rural and remote services.

1 person likes this recommendation

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Theme: Rural research

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Delegate Recommendation

The specialist training programme (STP) has seen some success in attracting and retaining specialist trainees as specialists in regional and rural areas. Excluding the specialist colleges involved in training general practitioners, especially rural generalists, is an error that should be... more

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Theme: The rural workforce pipeline

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Delegate Recommendation

Need a national collaborative effort to enable more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners become leaders in clinical health care across the sector.
1. Fund more positions
2. Commitment from all health professions required
3. Plan a pipeline from more local... more

4 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

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Delegate Recommendation

There has been much discussion and evidence presented on workforce collaboration. We recommend investing in regional workforce planning that recognises the unique context of each region and community. This will focus the collective resources of the region to plan and action sustainable and long... more

9 people like this recommendation

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Theme: The rural workforce pipeline

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Delegate Recommendation

Where primary health care facilities (eg ACCHOs, GP practices) make savings on PATS, a percentage of those savings (eg 30% minimum) be returned to that primary care facility to support patient end support including the development of on-community jobs such as telehealth coordinator, digital... more

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Theme: Funding

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Delegate Recommendation

That training providers and funders are implored to run data and statistical staff development programmes in rural and remote areas. This is necessary to ensure rural people are researched with and not just about and to ensure a diversity of views in data collection, analysis, dissemination and... more

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Theme: Rural research

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Delegate Recommendation

A holistic approach be taken by all parties to address the identified barriers to Telehealth access:
Barriers to telehealth:
- Inadequate internet service and data allowances.
-Unreliable telecommunications and equipment.
-Consultations not being billable to Medicare (... more

4 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Access

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Delegate Recommendation

Prioritise research funding for collaborative projects between research agencies (eg universities), primary health care providers (eg NGOs) and the community. This will capture innovative, grassroots projects that meet real, local, rural health needs.

2 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Rural research

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Delegate Recommendation

the sector should not forget the significant inequities in the quality and availability of regional pathology and radiological services. people are receiving incorrect or late results or. Or attending crucial tests due to travel barriers. This is also a workforce issue.

2 people like this recommendation

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Theme: The rural workforce pipeline

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Delegate Recommendation

The government should announce a roadmap to a universal dental insurance scheme based on a Medicare model as defined in the March 2019 Grattan Institute Filling the Gap Report.

The government should address the under utilisation of existing MBS funded children’s dental services by... more

3 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Other

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Delegate Recommendation

Pollinators around the world are in decline. Without them our crops fail and food becomes scarce. Do not forget that biodiversity, drought and pesticides contribute to wellbeing. If there are missing bits in natural systems it is just like missing services in health systems and correlates with... more

3 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Other

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Delegate Recommendation

Friends of the Alliance support the Alliance's commitment to growing and strengthening the rural consumer and carer voices. We commit to this action as part of our overall role of working collaboratively and in partnership through engaging and promoting consumer and carer focused... more

2 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Other

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Delegate Recommendation

Support and approve recommendations to access MBS items to improve patient access to high-value, best-practice primary health care.
To do this, recommendations need to focus on ensuring that Nurse Practitioner’s and Allied Health are able to provide accessible and affordable services, in... more

6 people like this recommendation

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Theme: The rural workforce pipeline

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Delegate Recommendation

Oral disease in young children, particularly early childhood dental decay is largely preventable and if the disease is detected early its management is simple. Yet, Aboriginal children suffer from dental disease at twice the rate of non-Aboriginal children and are more likely to be admitted for... more

7 people like this recommendation

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Comments: 1

Theme: Other

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Delegate Recommendation

Reform of the mental health act across all jurisdictions through therapeutic jurisprudence, restorative justice, and collaborative practice AND the practice of SafeWards and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT).

0 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Other

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Delegate Recommendation

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Theme: Other

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Delegate Recommendation

Government needs to urgently fund the development of health management and leadership training programs for rural and remote managers and emerging leaders. The Australasian College of Health Service Management accredited competency standards should be used to guide the development.

4 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Other

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Delegate Recommendation

Exploring multidisciplinary approaches to practice and supervision especially for practitioners working with infants, children and families in the early intervention space (submitted for conference delegate)

3 people like this recommendation

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Comments: 1

Theme: Access

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Delegate Recommendation

NRHA calls on State and Federal Governments to significantly invest in the infrastructure that will remove the barriers to equitable health outcomes for RRR Australia.
Australia is a signatory to the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 3 -
to "ensure healthy lives and... more

2 people like this recommendation

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Theme: Other

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