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Rural Support Trust dinners promote rural community wellbeing in Northland

Looking for a relaxed and fun way to connect farmers and rural communities, the Rural Support Trust (RST) started an initiative of hosting community dinners five years ago and have since hosted close to 100 dinners.

Additional funding for PRIME services announced

Minister Henare announced additional funding for PRIME services at the National Rural Health Conference in Christchurch last week.

Over 350 delegates to meet for National Rural Health Conference 2022

This week over 350 delegates will come together at Te Pae Convention Centre for the first National Rural Health Conference hosted by Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network.

Tertiary health students spread the word about rural health careers

Over the next two weeks 30 tertiary health students in four teams will spread the word about rural health careers to 33 rural schools throughout the Manawatu, Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa; Tasman, Marlborough, and West Coast; Bay of Plenty and Gisborne; and the Coromandel.

Mortality outcomes and inequities experienced by rural Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand

This research paper by Sue Crengle, Gabrielle Davie, Jesse Whitehead, Brandon de Graaf, Ross Lawrenson and Garry Nixon uses contemporary mortality data to examine Māori and non-Māori mortality rates in rural and urban areas.

An update from Dr Jeremy Webber, our Clinical Director Rural Health

It was great to connect with some of you at GP22 last month and seeing Te Pae as the host has me more enthused about our National Rural Health Conference in a few weeks. 

It was great to connect with some of you at GP22 last month and getting to see Te Pae Convention Centre has me more enthused about our National Rural Health Conference in a few weeks.

Our sector’s pursuit for health improvement continues particularly with my secondment to HealthNZ to work on the primary, community and rural stream until June 2023. This role essentially is an extension of my Hauora Taiwhenua work to date, and now I’ll have more direct input to HealthNZ.

As well as providing rural clinical input across all streams, I have been tasked with specific focus around extended community care. Early access to point of care diagnostics, enabling clinical work at top of scope and extending health pathways for all clinicians. This ensures that our rural voice is incorporated throughout the early action intent of HealthNZ.

Our focus on workforce is ever present, and is reflected with prominence in the rural conference program. Many stakeholders are chipping away at the rural clinical training pipeline from undergraduate into vocational training and we continue to agitate for this as the main priority for rural.

Locality development is slowly building steam and closely linked with primary, community and rural stream above.

My highlight of the month is seeing the pride of our newly minted rural hospital and general practice fellows and particularly the sense of community reflected in their individual acknowledgements.