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Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) has successfully secured $140,179 funding for the Attract, Connect, Stay Project through the Enhancing Country Health Outcomes (ECHO) grant program managed by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR). This 2-year project...
SARRAH applauds the announcement today by Minister for Regional Health, the Hon Mark Coulton MP, that the Office of the Rural Health Commissioner is to be extended and the Commissioner will be supported by Deputy Commissioners with expertise in Indigenous health, nursing and allied health. These...
On Friday 28 February 2020 the Hon. Mark Coulton MP, Minister for Regional Health, attended the SARRAH Summit to launch the Australian Allied Health Leadership Forum's position statement on Allied Health Rural Generalism. Minister Coulton said he fully supported the forum’s statement that “allied...
In the last week Australia’s parliamentarians showed real leadership. They did it by acknowledging the limited success governments had achieved and by recognising that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must be engaged and share authority to overcome Australia’s most enduring inequality...
WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2019: NO TO STIGMA YES TO ACCESS Reducing stigma around mental health was a welcome focus for the Media Release from Minister for Health, Greg Hunt yesterday. One in five of us will deal with a mental health issue in any year. Many, if not most, of us will personally face a...
JOINT SARRAH – IAHA MEDIA RELEASE If you live in rural or remote Australia your chances of accessing allied health services if and when you need them are much worse than for other Australians. If you are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, your chances are even worse...
Our rural and remote communities face an ongoing disparity in access to allied health services....
The 2018 federal budget included the announcement to increase doctors and nurses in rural and remote areas with several programs for better access in aged care, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and in rural health. “A dollar spent anywhere in health is a good thing, and SARRAH welcomes...
SARRAH CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS FOR 2018 CONFERENCE ‘CHANGING LANDSCAPES, CHANGING LIVES’ SARRAH is calling for abstracts that relate to the 2018 SARRAH conference theme ‘Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives‘. “The modern healthcare landscape is undergoing massive and rapid changes that impact on both...
Allied Health Generalists Part of the Solution in Rural and Remote Australia While recent research confirms that Australians living in rural and remote areas suffer from inequality of access to a range of key services, allied health is a sector that has tremendous potential to offer a solution to...
