Rural and Remote Medical Services Statement: Rural health care is changing, and we must too
After 20 successful years of helping rural and remote communities to manage on-site local community GP practices, and recruiting...
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- Apr 29, 2022
- 2 min
RARMS HEALTH Medical Practices in Lightning Ridge and Walgett to Close
Over 7,000 people will have reduced access to primary health care across the Walgett Shire, with two long-standing medical practices...
- Apr 8, 2022
- 3 min
Urgent Need for Rural Health JobKeeper Package
The Chief Executive Officer, Mark Burdack, of the Rural and Remote Medical Services (RARMS) Charity has today called on the State and...
- Mar 24, 2022
- 4 min
Front-line nurses, burnt-out or on the brink.
Pre-Covid, the healthcare system was already struggling. It’s time to invest in primary care and best practices to take that weight off...
- Feb 14, 2022
- 6 min
Healthy Communities: A case for structural change in how we manage our health
Looking at our health system from an outsider’s perspective, governments wanting to reduce the unsustainable growth of health budgets should
- Feb 12, 2022
- 5 min
NSW Inquiry into the Management of COVID
Introductory remarks to evidence given at the NSW Inquiry into the Management of COVID by RARMS CEO I would like to acknowledge that I am...
- Dec 22, 2021
- 3 min
Rural people addressing rural health Integrated Rural Health Award - Angela Hubbard
The winner of the 2021 RARMS Integrated Rural Health Award is Angela Hubbard. A physiotherapist based in central western NSW, Angela has...
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
What you need to know about the Omicron Covid-19 Strain
What is the Omicron Strain of COVID-19? COVID-19 is caused by a virus. As our bodies build up an immunity to protect us from infection...
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
RARMS appoints Ben Chiarella as its first Chief Nursing Officer
The CEO of Rural and Remote Medical Services (RARMS), Mark Burdack, today announced the appointment of its first Chief Nursing Officer...
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
Building on Strengths: Challenging the Rural Health Deficit Discourse
They say 'necessity is the mother of all invention'. In this regard, rural and remote Australia has a lot of which to be proud in its...
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
OPINION: A holistic and integrated approach to social determinants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates that only 20 percent of health outcomes can be attributed to access to health and medical...
- Aug 18, 2021
- 4 min
OPINION: A Country Practice: Community Engaged Health Care
A Country Practice screened on Australian televisions from 1981 to 1994. It portrayed the life of rural doctors living and working in a...
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
OPINION: Out with the New, In with the Old
Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd (or RARMS for short) was established by rural doctors in NSW as a charity in 2001 to help rural and...
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
OPINION: We need a COVID 'Plan Zero' for Western NSW
We need a COVID Plan Zero for Western NSW to stomp out the COVID risk in our communities. As the NSW Minister for Health acknowledged the...
- Aug 17, 2021
- 5 min
Mark Burdack, CEO of RARMS
Mark Burdack was appointed as the CEO of Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd (RARMS) in late 2019 following the departure of Shane...
- Aug 16, 2021
- 3 min
OPINION: Rural and remote communities need to lead rural and remote health
Rural and remote people cannot be held responsible for the failure of a health system over which they have no control.
- Jul 12, 2021
- 4 min
A million dollars for new Collarenebri Youth & Health Hub
Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd (RARMS) has welcomed the announcement today by The Hon Keith Pitt, Minister for Resources and...
- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
RARMS launches EOFY Campaign to Support Rural and Remote Communities
As EOFY approaches, please consider a tax deductible donation to RARMS to help us to ensure rural and remote communities have access to the
- May 22, 2021
- 1 min
Best COVID Vaccination Ads
Around the world governments are getting the COVID vaccination message out to their populations. RARMS has selected its favourites. ...
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
RARMS backs train in the bush for future medicos
Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd (RARMS) has welcomed a new cohort of medical students from the University of Sydney to its...
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