Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd in Brewarrina, New South Wales | Family doctor

Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd

Locality: Brewarrina, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6839 2294

Address: 4 Sandon Street 2839 Brewarrina, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.rarms.org.au

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23.01.2022 Read my latest article on rural attitudes to the use of Telehealth to replace on-site medical services. #ruralhealth @croakeynews https://www.ruralandremotehealth.org.au//a-big-no-to-repla

22.01.2022 Wellington in western NSW is a small town with a service population of around 8,000 people. Wellington is facing a serious decline in hospital services due to a lack of on-site 24/7 doctors. Dubbo Council is circulating a petition. https://www.dailyliberal.com.au//petition-to-be-circulate/

19.01.2022 In the past 12 months, have you been: 1. treated by a GP at RARMS Medical Centre, and 2. at an emergency department of a hospital? If you answer yes to both please phone RARMS to find out about how to become involved in research to improve rural and remote health care.

17.01.2022 Welcome to the new Board of RARMS, Australia’s largest on-site charitable rural and remote health and medical service. #ruralhealth @CroakeyNews @Prime7centralwest @abclandline https://www.ruralandremotehealth.org.au/governance

16.01.2022 This week RARMS in collaboration with our partner Dubbo AMS were rolling out our ATSI Health Strategy across our communities, while our Board and managers met to work out how we will continue to sustain and expand access to health care in 2021. Then on Thursday the NSW Government issued a media release that RARMS would no longer be supported to provide Hospital medical services in Bourke Brewarrina, Collarenebri, Coonamble, Lightning Ridge and Walgett after 20 years of loyal... service. The announcement has come as a great shock to our staff and communities, and I would like to thank the hundreds of people who have already emailed or dropped in to our medical centres to share their sadness. RARMS remains committed to our charitable mission to ensure that all rural, remote and Indigenous Australians have access to high quality health and hospital services regardless of where they live. Our promise to you is that we will listen to our local communities to hear your views about what role you would like us to play in your towns in the future and we work with you to ensure that your right to equitable access to health and hospital care is met now and into the future. We will continue to proudly work together with our communities in Gilgandra, Warren, Warialda, Bingara and Braidwood, as well as our 33 towns in southern NSW, to continue to ensure the health and wellbeing of rural and remote communities. See more

15.01.2022 We're in this Together. Working in Partnership for Indigenous Health. #indigenoushealth #ruralhealth https://www.ruralandremotehealth.org.au/indigenous

15.01.2022 20 years working with rural, remote and Indigenous communities to improve access to local GP care and keep local hospitals open. #ruralhealth #primaryhealthcare #indigenoushealth https://65dacf67-a0f3-4821-b697-8e262e976ec1.filesusr.com/

15.01.2022 Welcome to our new directors elected today. A testament to the work RARMS has done keeping health and hospital services open in vulnerable rural and remote communities for 20 years. Welcome on board! #RuralHealth #primarycare #primaryhealthcare #IndigenousHealth

14.01.2022 Please see an update on the NSW Government's decision to cut funding to RARMS medical services in remote NSW from March 2021. @Croakeynews @Prime7centralwest @abclandline #ruralhealth https://www.ruralandremotehealth.org.au//western-nsw-lhd-e

12.01.2022 In an opinion piece written by RARMS on the inappropriate use of Telehealth to replace 24/7 on-site rural and remote emergency doctors, we noted the death of Dawn Trivett in Gulgong who was treated by the Western NSW Local Health District using Telehealth. RARMS stated that the Telehealth doctor who treated Ms Trivett was located in Switzerland. It has been brought to our attention by the Western NSW Local Health District that Ms Trivett was in fact treated by a Telehealth ...doctor located in Australia. The public policy issue that RARMS sought to raise was about the clinical safety of delivering emergency medical care to patients in rural and remote Australia via Telehealth regardless of whether the doctor is located in Australia or outside of Australia. Where the doctor was located was not the central issue as the article sets out, but rather that an on-site and on-call doctor was not located in Gulgong when an emergency arose. RARMS is also concerned that money that would otherwise have been spent on a doctor working in Gulgong is being spent outside of Gulgong, and the negative flow-on economic impact this could have on jobs and economic stability in rural and remote towns. Again, the core issue is about the impact of taking funding for medical services out of rural and remote towns rather than where this money is now being spent. RARMS is ethically committed to providing rural, remote and Indigenous Australians with access to accurate information about the state of rural health services and health policy to support our communities to engage in public policy debates on rural, remote and Indigenous health. We apologise for the error and have corrected the opinion piece online. See more

12.01.2022 Happy Dawali from RARMS. #ruralhealth #primaryhealthcare #indigenoushealth

06.01.2022 Appointment now available for ATSI (715) Health Checks. Receive either a Summer Pool Activity Pack or Health Meal Pack. Participants who complete the Health Survey will go into a draw to receive one of two Health and Entertainment Pack (Samsung TV, Fitbit and NutriBullet). Appointments available in Bourke, Brewarrina, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge, Gilgandra, Warren, Braidwood and Walgett.

03.01.2022 Celebrating the diversity, knowledge, wisdom and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Happy NAIDOC Week!

02.01.2022 20 years working with rural, remote and Indigenous communities to improve access to local GPs and keep local hospitals open. #ruralhealth #primaryhealthcare #indigenoushealth https://65dacf67-a0f3-4821-b697-8e262e976ec1.filesusr.com/