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

Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd

Locality: Warren, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6847 4326

Address: 21 Lawson Street 2824 Warren, NSW, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 COVID has been a difficult time for everyone in rural and remote Australia. Thanks to our rural GPs, nurses, practice staff and cleaners for working 24/7 to keep services going safely. Thanks to our rural councils for looking after the community. Thanks to the community for looking out for each other.

24.01.2022 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

22.01.2022 Health and hospital services in rural and remote communities are under threat. Please share this post to help vulnerable communities maintain the health services they need. #ruralhealth #primarycare

20.01.2022 Great article about how COVID has again shown local, trusted health organisations, and two way engagement with local communities, are critical to successful public health strategies and reducing health costs to government. https://www.croakey.org/when-you-ask-the-community-magic-h/

18.01.2022 Finally a Health Minister that recognise that Commonwealth and States need to work together and put more money into rural practice. Hundreds of millions are wasted every year on rural quangos, high paid executives and policy officers, rural programs that achieve nothing, workforce incentive schemes that don’t attract doctors, and inventing new models of care rather than investing in proven models of care. The problem with rural health is that it has become a multi-million... dollar industry based in our capital cities that has very little to do with actually delivering healthcare. For 20 years Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd has been recruiting doctors to rural practice and delivering on site care to 22,000 rural, remote and Indigenous people across 10 locations. In our towns patients receive 7.4 Medicare services per capita compared to a national average of 4.9 in remote areas. We have reduced avoidable hospitalisation for preventable conditions by 30% over 5 years, and low acuity hospital presentations by almost 70% over 5 years. The Dawn Trivett tragedy is that too many people are spending millions trying to invent new modes of care, rather than just investing in the care we know works - a local rural GP. Greg Hunt MP See more

17.01.2022 NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said today that Telehealth is not to be used to replace rural doctors. This has raised very serious questions in rural and remote communities in western NSW where local 24/7 rural doctors have.been replaced by Telehealth. https://www.smh.com.au//health-minister-demands-action-ove Paul Toole MP Gladys Berejiklian Roy Butler MP Bourke, New South Wales Gulgong, New South Wales Brewarrina Newspaper Cobar, New South Wales Condobolin, New South Wales Walgett, New South Wales, Australia Collarenebri, New South Wales Warren, New South Wales Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia Gilgandra, New South Wales Coolah, New South Wales Goodooga, New South Wales

16.01.2022 Thanks again to Manildra Group for all the support it has provided rural and remote Australians during COVID. Manildra donated 2000L of hand sanitiser to Rural and Remote Medical Services (RARMS) to support our GPs, staff and patients to stay safe helping to keep our practice open and allowing us to continue serving our communities when they needed us most. Country people helping country people. Thanks for the write-up in The Cultivator! https://www.manildra.com.au/ebooks/cultivator/Spring2020/

15.01.2022 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/

15.01.2022 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

13.01.2022 This road trip takes in all of RARMS remote medical centres serving 22,000 rural, remote and Indigenous people. Fantastic country and a good read. https://www.theguardian.com//a-2000km-road-trip-through-no

10.01.2022 Major agricultural firm Paraway confirms that people will only live in rural and regional areas if they have good health and education services. This is a key challenge for rural and remote communities with declining medical and health care. Roy Butler MP

09.01.2022 Thank you to all the writers to the Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald from the city and bush who have stood up for rural and remote people in NSW over the replacement of rural GPs with Telehealth in western NSW emergency departments. This is not a rural or city policy issue, but an issue for everyone. In the Newmarch House case resident were allegedly told they were not allowed to go to hospital and were forced to be treated by Telehealth which according to the media may ...have contributed to higher mortality rates. We need an open a accountable community discussion about the type of health care we expect - not Tele-stealth. We don’t want to end up with a new divide in Australia between those that can pay for a real doctor to provide life saving care and those who end up with a virtual doctor from some location overseas. Telehealth has an important role to play, but we need to set clear and binding guidelines before we allow anymore hospitals to lose 24/7 care or only the rich will have access to on-site medical care in future. See more

09.01.2022 Please stop and look at the beautiful face of Dawn Trevitt. This could be your mum, your grandmother, your sister or your daughter. Now, ask yourself: do you think it is acceptable if your mum, your grandma, your sister or your daughter went to an emergency department of a hospital in a critical condition and was not able to see an on-site doctor 24/7? Gladys Berejiklian Paul Toole MP

07.01.2022 Ageing at home is recognised as the preferred option for elderly care. Hopefully this prompts a rethink of the current NSW Government strategy of replacing on-site rural GPs in NSW Rural Hospitals with Telehealth. https://www.smh.com.au//a-more-humane-less-costly-solution

07.01.2022 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

05.01.2022 Good luck to Year 12 students at Dunedoo Central School. Having schools in rural and remote towns is essential to ensure we are giving every Australian a fair go. https://www.abc.net.au//dunedoo-school-students-s/12692310

02.01.2022 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

02.01.2022 Postcode discrimination is unfair treatment that impacts across multiple communities outside our major metropolitan and regional cities. Read the story below and my blog on postcode discrimination and health at https://www.ruralandremotehealth.org.au//opinion-death-by-. Croakey - independent, in-depth social journalism for health #ruralhealth