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Press Releases
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.
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RDAA Press Release: Labors emergency specialists measure will miss the mark in the bush
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) says todays 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.
RDAA Press Release: Doctors paid incentives to move to country towns like…Hobart?
The Rural Doctors Association Australia (RDAA) is calling for a review of a new government program designed to encourage doctors into rural areas that will today start compensating them for the hardship of practising in cities like Hobart.
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Slashing of joint replacements at Bowral to hurt Sydney and rural patients alike
The Rural Doctors Association of NSW (RDA NSW) is extremely concerned with a plan by the NSW Government’s Sydney South West Area Health Service to slash the number of joint replacement operations at Bowral Hospital in the state’s Southern Highlands, fearing it could be a veiled attempt to shut down all such operations at Bowral in the future.
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Health bureaucrats continue to bungle
RDA NSW President Ian Kamerman has called on the North Coast Area Health Service (NCAHS) to stop blaming problems at Bellingen Hospital on rural doctors and rural communities, who are trying to fix the problems.
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Doctors commend Area Health Service for prompt action on Coolah Hospital concerns
The Rural Doctors Association of NSW (RDA NSW) has commended the Greater Western Area Health Service (GWAHS) for its prompt action in returning emergency and acute care services to Coolah Hospital and taking the hospital off bypass.
RDA NSW warned last Wednesday that—in shutting down the hospital’s emergency department and acute care beds, and placing the hospital on bypass—lives would be put at risk with critical and acute care patients being forced to travel or be transported to distant hospitals for treatment.
Patient safety at risk as Coolah Hospital bypassed
The Rural Doctors Association of NSW (RDA NSW) is warning that the Greater Western Area Health Service’s decision to place Coolah Hospital on bypass indefinitely, effectively shutting down the hospital’s emergency department, will put lives at risk.
The Association is calling on the Area Health Service to work urgently to recruit more nurses at the hospital—including by recruiting temporary nurses through locum agencies—to ensure the hospital can remain open.
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Pambula Hospital Obstetrics - Good Hearing from New Minister
Local Pambula doctors are pleased with the hearing they and the Pambula community received from the NSW Health Minister and Deputy Premier Carmel Tebbutt during talks on Wednesday over the re-opening of Pambula’s closed maternity unit.
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Moree Doctor Wins Coveted Award
Moree rural doctor and obstetrician, Dr Maxine Percival, received the prestigious award at the Rural Doctors Association of Australia’s and Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine’s national Rural Medicine Australia 2009 conference, held in Melbourne over the weekend.....
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