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Rural people addressing rural health Integrated Rural Health Award - Angela Hubbard
The winner of the 2021 Integrated Rural Health Award is Angela Hubbard. A physiotherapist based in central western NSW, Angela has...
Dec 22, 20213 min read


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...
Nov 29, 20213 min read


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 20, 20214 min read


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 19, 20214 min read


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 18, 20214 min read


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, 20213 min read


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, 20213 min read


Mark Burdack, CEO of THCFA
Mark Burdack was appointed as the CEO of The healthy Communities Foundation Australia (formerly Rural and Remote Medical Services) in...
Aug 17, 20215 min read


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.
Aug 16, 20213 min read


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...
Jul 12, 20214 min read


Best COVID Vaccination Ads
Around the world governments are getting the COVID vaccination message out to their populations. RARMS has selected its favourites. ...
May 22, 20211 min read


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...
May 10, 20212 min read
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