NSW Community Health Review

Rural/remote

  1. health prevention
  2. Health promotion and education.
  3. Increased health and education staff. Awareness and application of needs.
  4. Increased services available to small communities, remove centre based services to the local community
  5. Support, access and equity
  6. Health Promotion ,access to health care, jobs
  7. Enhance telemedicine facilities and provide specialised visiting clinics
  8. Unable to comment - mainly metro service
  9. diversity in service provision
  10. Ensure services are available to meet the needs - eg HACC, CACP, Community Nursing, Nurse Practitioners, health centres
  11. Life long care plan with surveillance and recall for early id and intervention & care anywhere
  12. Provision of more specialists from all professions
  13. Health Prevention, Health promotion, Investigation, Treatment and continuing care
  14. having access to the same treatment available in the cities.
  15. coordinated community based responses - transport costs for clients and staff well subsidised
  16. providing quality supervision and relevant staffing
  17. transport assistance, group programs, health promotion, violence education
  18. health Promotion, Health Prevention, tracking, recall and surveillance to prevent/monitor chronic conditions
  19. Health promotion, investigation and treatment options, plus ongoing care provision
  20. access issues
  21. Continuing care
  22. Violence prevention
  23. support in terms of education/training opportunities and collegial contact to assist with retention
  24. Rural based services
  25. Health Promotion, Access, Illness prevention, access, Chronic care, treatment
  26. Rural communities should have greater access to community health centres. Currently, many rural and remote health users cannot access services such as PANOC, Sexual Assault, counselling, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapists due to not having a professional in the centres specialising in this. More investment should be made in retaining current professionals in rural areas and recruitment to rural areas
  27. adequate services available i.e. access to medical support
  28. Promotion of outreach clinics
  29. health provision
  30. Health prevention
  31. cultivating higher levels of expertise in smaller health centres, break down the silos located in hub towns and "NSW" (Newcastle Sydney Wollongong).
  32. This is the most underresourced area and needs creative solutions to improve the resource allocation.
  33. Consultation with community to ascertain specific needs and delivery of programs that meet these needs.
  34. Better access to medical facilities.
  35. Easy booklet detail services, contacts, costs, bulk bill, eg nearest place for hearing tests, how to claim travel, respite etc
  36. Investment in staff, to help them gain and maintain skills when education is difficult to come by - for 2 reasons:- distance and budget. Also need to narrow done the workload for nurses particularly in Community/Primary Health - Nurses try to be all things to all people - and their roles need to be clearly defined - whereas now they are still practicing as they did 10 years ago & DOH initiatives re Chronic care and families are now add ons to existing workloads - and difficult to get nurses to stop doing 'traditional' practice
  37. outreach community programs
  38. More services and better resourced with staff
  39. case management