Remote Health
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More young women in ice rehab as health system buckles AAP - 29-05-2024
Young rural women are increasingly seeking help for ice addiction, but frontline workers say access to rehab has not improved since a landmark report on the use of the drug.
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Australia's health care system 'groaning at the seams AAP - 20-03-2024
Patients in regional and remote areas will soon receive easier access to care under a plan to unleash the full potential of the nation's nurses. Assistant
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A country jackpot: cash incentive to lure GPs out bush AAP - 21-12-2023
Doctors will be eligible for tens of thousands of dollars in cash incentives if they move out bush in a bid to plug chronic GP shortages in the regions. A $10,000
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Rural Australians dying earlier, from avoidable illness AAP - 17-12-2023
THE HEALTH DIVIDE IN RURAL AUSTRALIA * Men living in remote areas die 14 years earlier than their city peers, while women die 12 years earlier[subscribe]
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Funding for rural medical school programs Rahima Saikal - 08-12-2023
The Albanese Government has invested $90 million into six new medical school programs in rural communities
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Rewards of going rural, as doctors push for recognition AAP - 26-11-2023
As a rural generalist doctor, Raymond Lewandowski might work in the emergency room in the middle of the night, tend to a birthing mother in the early hours and visit hospital
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'Life or death': rural health back under the spotlight AAP - 24-11-2023
The doors of the $60 million refurbished Inverell hospital were swung open with big promises: more staff, better treatment and care closer to home. But residents
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Prevention better than cure to close rural health gap AAP - 02-11-2023
Country doctors have a saying: if you've been to one rural town, you've been to one rural town. "Not every town has the same health issues,"
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Show us the money, as rural health on life support AAP - 14-09-2023
Pilbara GP Sonia Henry has seen young people die of strokes, teenagers with heart disease, and children who have lost their hearing after untreated ear infections.
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The Role of Telehealth in Modern Australian Healthcare Felicity Frankish - 03-08-2023
The Role of Telehealth in Modern Australian Healthcare In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, telehealth is revolutionising the way
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Remote dialysis to end long treks for outback patients AAP - 15-04-2023
Kidney failure may not be fatal, but for people in remote communities it can feel that way when they are forced to travel thousands of kilometres for treatment.
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Remote SA health service to check on vital signs AAP - 19-02-2023
A remote health monitoring service has been established across regional South Australia with a view to reducing hospital admissions. Eligible patients will
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Report reveals health crisis in rural Australia AAP - 06-02-2023
Australians living in regional and remote areas are likely to die nearly two decades earlier than their city counterparts, a new report has found. The report
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HELP debt wiped for rural and remote NPs Haley Williams - 18-11-2022
The Federal Government has announced that from November, nurse practitioners and doctors who live and work in rural and remote Australia will have their HELP debt wiped.
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The dire diagnosis for rural Tasmanians AAP - 06-11-2022
There is a dark expression among some in St Helens, Tasmania: "Don't have a mental health crisis between 5pm on Friday and 9am on Monday." The
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Regions need to rise up after budget AAP - 30-10-2022
Inside the Macquarie Home Stay centre in Dubbo, women anxiously wait to give birth, cancer patients rest after treatment and others recover from hip and knee surgery.
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Inquiry warned of too few GPs in rural NSW AAP - 20-04-2022
The number of doctors living and working in rural NSW has dropped by three-quarters in the last decade leaving residents in remote areas vulnerable, an inquiry has been told.
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Vic hospital stretcher death prompts probe AAP - 14-04-2022
Premier Daniel Andrews has lamented "extraordinary" ongoing pressure on Victoria's health system after a 72 year old man died while waiting for hours on an ambulance
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Rural mums face fearful pregnancy journey AAP - 08-04-2022
Alison Pearson stood on the side of the road, cut off by floodwaters, scared she was losing her baby. Ms Pearson, from Cobar in western NSW, was on a 320km
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Government failing on rural health AAP - 05-04-2022
Ask a medical student why they want to work in the bush, and they will just laugh. That is what a major healthcare provider says about students who have committed
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