Remote Health

The Northern Territory’s unique specialisations in the health sector will be on show in Alice Springs when the Northern Territory Convention Bureau (NTCB) and its industry

Vision loss is a growing problem in rural and remote Australian communities, and blindness among Indigenous Australians is three times the rate of non-Indigenous Australians,

Improving the health of people in rural, regional and remote Australia will come under the microscope of leading national and international experts in the field at the 15th

Leave requests and unexpected absences in health facilities are often difficult to cover when the casual pool of staff are in short supply. This scenario is all too real for

The NSW Country Women's Association says the drought and a lack of regional services are having a negative impact on the health of regional Australians.

This year, more than 50 Rural Generalist Training positions are being offered across NSW through the NSW Rural Generalist Medical Training Program managed by the Health Education

Bendigo Bank has now opened Bendigo Bank House, a new short-term, affordable and subsidised accommodation facility at Bendigo Hospital for regional patients, their carers

Located in the Corangamite Shire, also known as the Lakes and Craters region, Camperdown has a steady population of over 3,300 residents. It is two and a half hours west of

More than 200 nurses will be impacted by Healthscope’s decision to close Geelong Private Hospital and Cotham Private Hospital, a move which has left staff shocked and

The 6th Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium: Outback Infront is taking place in Canberra from 11-12 April 2018.

The Rural Workforce Agency Network has announced the launch of the first national call for applications for the Health Workforce Scholarship Program, which supports postgraduate

Sue Miller never wanted to be a nurse.  She laughs when she tells me over a phone conversation from her home in Cairns that for the first twenty years of her career she

New research has revealed people living in regional, rural or remote Australia are 90% more likely to die from heart conditions caused by high blood pressure than people

Nat Luxton is a Registered Nurse (RN)/midwife and has been registered with Rural LAP since 2011. She was originally from Brisbane but now resides at Corindi Beach on the Northern

The combination of a rural background and rural undergraduate training has a multiplier effect on the likelihood of medical graduates practicing outside metropolitan areas,

A nutrition strategy to reduce the portion size and availability of soft drink has reduced the consumption of sugary drinks in a remote Indigenous community.

Being bogged in the outback and having to throw a radio antenna over the branches of a tall eucalypt to get reception are just some of the challenges bush nurses have faced

 More than 120 medical students from the University of Tasmania are on rural placements this week, through an immersive program preparing them to become doctors.

More than 700 rural nurses from across Australia have voiced their professional needs and concerns in a CRANAplus survey. As the peak body for the remote health

Better training pathways and promotion are needed to convince more nurses and allied health professionals to go rural, according to a new study released today.