- health prevention
- Health promotion and education.
- Increased health and education staff. Awareness and application of needs.
- Increased services available to small communities, remove centre based services to the local community
- Support, access and equity
- Health Promotion ,access to health care, jobs
- Enhance telemedicine facilities and provide specialised visiting clinics
- Unable to comment - mainly metro service
- diversity in service provision
- Ensure services are available to meet the needs - eg HACC, CACP, Community Nursing, Nurse Practitioners, health centres
- Life long care plan with surveillance and recall for early id and intervention & care anywhere
- Provision of more specialists from all professions
- Health Prevention, Health promotion, Investigation, Treatment and continuing care
- having access to the same treatment available in the cities.
- coordinated community based responses - transport costs for clients and staff well subsidised
- providing quality supervision and relevant staffing
- transport assistance, group programs, health promotion, violence education
- health Promotion, Health Prevention, tracking, recall and surveillance to prevent/monitor chronic conditions
- Health promotion, investigation and treatment options, plus ongoing care provision
- access issues
- Continuing care
- Violence prevention
- support in terms of education/training opportunities and collegial contact to assist with retention
- Rural based services
- Health Promotion, Access, Illness prevention, access, Chronic care, treatment
- 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
- adequate services available i.e. access to medical support
- Promotion of outreach clinics
- health provision
- Health prevention
- cultivating
higher levels of expertise in smaller health centres, break down the
silos located in hub towns and "NSW" (Newcastle Sydney Wollongong).
- This is the most underresourced area and needs creative solutions to improve the resource allocation.
- Consultation with community to ascertain specific needs and delivery of programs that meet these needs.
- Better access to medical facilities.
- Easy booklet detail services, contacts, costs, bulk bill, eg nearest place for hearing tests, how to claim travel, respite etc
- 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
- outreach community programs
- More services and better
resourced with staff
- case management
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