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The Rural Doctors Association (NSW), established in 1987, is one of seven state and Territory members of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia. Membership of RDA(NSW) is open to all NSW's rural doctors, not just those who work at the 125 smaller rural hospitals in New South Wales.

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RDAA Press Release: Rural doctors welcome additional mental health funding

 The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has welcomed today’s announcement by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon of additional funding for mental health services, saying it will help increase access to mental healthcare for rural and remote Australians.

“Access to care for depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns is a big issue in the bush” RDAA CEO, Steve Sant, said.

RDAA Press Release: Labor’s emergency specialists measure will miss the mark in the bush

 

 The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) says today’s announcement by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to deliver more emergency medicine specialists to outer metropolitan and regional hospitals will do little to improve access to emergency care further out in rural and remote Australia. 

RDAA Press Release: Rural doctors call for ‘a fair shake of the sauce bottle’ this election

 The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) is calling on all parties contesting the federal election to commit to provide rural communities with their fair share of health funding to improve local access to healthcare in the bush.

Releasing RDAA‟s Federal Election Position Statement 2010, RDAA President Dr Nola Maxfield said over the past three years the Rudd/Gillard Government had been busy shaking up the health system but rural doctors hardly got a dribble of extra funding.