15 NRHC Recommendations

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Workforce safety needs to be a funding priority with more investment in education, training and ongoing professional development. There is also a need for better coordination and systematic policy to prevent and manage aggression.
95% of frontline rural health staff experience aggression.... more

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Theme: Workforce education and training
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Primary care services in rural and remote communities are fragmented. Government needs to take immediate action to develop a pooled funding models which maximizes the value of MBS streams,state funding resources and PHN commissioned funds to create comprehensive primary health care services... more

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Theme: Comprehensive primary health care
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Nurse Practitioners need to be embedded into General practice in Rural communities We need to work collaboratively with General Practice on building on their capacity and capability to support GP workforce sustainability They are asset rich in their comprehensive assessment skills particularly... more

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Theme: The rural workforce pipeline
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Rural Health needs to be engaging more with Local government authorities to create a ground swell in taking a wellness approach across all ages in community thus increasing the capacity for care
This can have a significant collective impact which keeps evolving for health services and... more

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Theme: The role of the Community
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Develop an allied health rural generalist workforce to redress work maldistribution and improve accesss to services by
1. Funding the training support package for early career AHRG trainees. For action by Commonwealth DoH
2. Allocate funding to develop local allied health leadership... more

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Theme: Workforce education and training
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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SDH conversations regularly call for representatives from sectors such as housing, transport, taxation, justice, education etc to join health conferences. I recommend we flip this thinking- WE are all experts in SDH so we should attend -and importantly present at- industry conferences of the... more

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Theme: Social determinants of health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Build/incorporate community-level roles into all rural health professionals job descriptions, enabling them to expand their practice beyond individuals and address community social and cultural determinants of health. E.g. incorporate roles like community relationship building, partnership... more

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Let’s change the old saying “publish or perish” to “make an impact or implode”

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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With an estimated 20,000 new cases per year Australian Lyme disease patients are undiagnosed, misdiagnosed and untreated, resulting in a significant health burden, socially and financially. We recommend the National Rural Health Alliance support immediate national action for this disease cohort... more

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Theme: Social determinants of health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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We need to do more in preventive health. Many diseases are 100% preventable with informed protective measures, and many conditions can be minimised with proper education. We recommend that 20% of any health funding is appropriated to Preventive Health measures for any illness, disease or... more

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Theme: Funding
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Recognise and act upon the Uluru Statement of the Heart with an understanding that the ongoing effects of colonisation are connected with a number of social determinants of health.

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Theme: Social determinants of health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Advocate for enhanced Medicare billing items for nurses working in primary healthcare to assist with making the nurse led clinics self sustaining. Nurses working with communities improve access and change lives.

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Theme: Funding
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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There needs to be more effort put into optimal cold chain management of vaccines and other medicines in rural and remote communities

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Theme: Other
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There needs to be more funded positions for pharmacists in GP clinics

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Theme: Other
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That remote workforce issues are addressed as a team with the remote primary health care team ( gp, ran, np, pa, ahp, allied health, admin etc ) training together and advocating together .

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Theme: The rural workforce pipeline
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Pharmacists need to be embedded into Aboriginal Health Centres

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Theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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We need more funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healthcare Practitoner positions to assist with hospital discharge and transition to communities.

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Theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Being in a state of chronic stress in the early years of life often brought on by the conditions of poverty can lead to serious health effects in later life. Fund and develop systems of advocacy for the knowledge of boots of the ground staff (within ACCHOs etc.) to be elevated within the system... more

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Theme: Social determinants of health
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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The cap on HMR’s should be lifted (especially in rural and remote areas as this impacts the amount of patients that can benefit from HMRs) and HMRs need to be initiated by people other than GP’s.

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Theme: Other
Recommendation TypesDelegate Recommendations are submitted by Conference delegates.
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Government commitment

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Theme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health