Speech Pathologist Rebecca Keeley is an Allied Health Rural Generalist (NT), an alumnus of SARRAH's leadership program (a joint initiative with the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation), and a recent recipient of a Sir John Monash scholarship.   Rebecca tells us about her rural origins as a launchpad for her career - a career that appears to be poised to run in any number of directions and at great speed, with that red dust permanently ingrained under her skin.

Talking for Purpose with Rebecca Keeley, Rural Generalist Speech Pathologist

Gemma Tuxworth, SARRAH's Director of Projects, discusses new grant programs for eligible allied health providers delivering services into rural and remote areas of Australia.

Talking for Purpose: The Allied Health Rural Generalist Education and Training Scheme

Cath and Al discuss the week's media coverage of impending changes to the Aged Care funding model and the risk that access to allied health services for aged care recipients may deteriorate, an outcome not in keeping with the recommendations of the Aged Care Royal Commission.

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On 13 April 2022 SARRAH hosted a forum with guest speakers Leanne Wells (Consumers Health Forum) and Kylie Woolcock (Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association) to ask the question "How universal is our health system really?" Listen in for some sage advice on the changes needed to ensure all Australians have access to high quality healthcare no matter where they live.

A Universal Health System: Do we have one?

The 2022 John Deeble Lecture was presented at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on the 26th of October 2022 by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. 

The 2nd John Deeble Lecture, was delivered by Mr Michael Brennan, Chair of the Productivity Commission, and was followed by a panel discussion featuring prominent health policy leaders from around Australia and will be released as a follow-up episode of The Health Advocate Podcast.

The 2022 John Deeble Lecture

The Singleton summit brought together SARRAH members, service providers and partner organisations, a range of Commonwealth and NSW government officials, educators from the school, VET and university sectors, the Mayor of Singleton and more to put a spotlight on how everyone's effort can come together in a place like the Hunter to make a real difference to improve services and job opportunities where it counts: in our rural and remote communities.

Singleton Allied Health Workforce Summit

Welcome to “Talking For Purpose", SARRAH’s weekly podcast for anyone interested in changing up rural and remote health.

SARRAH CEO Cath Maloney is a physiotherapist with substantial lived experience of rural and remote health service design and delivery. In this podcast Cath brings her clinical and health executive perspectives together in the search for systemic reform.

Cath talks to allied health leaders and others about the changes needed to achieve better access to allied health services for rural and remote Australia.  If you’re looking for informative and entertaining chat while you cover those miles between country towns on your daily rounds, this is the podcast for you.

Singleton Allied Health Workforce Summit

Talking For Purpose

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