Showcase - RICH Program | Healthy Communities

REMOTE INTEGRATED
& COLLABORATIVE
HEALTH INITIATIVE

A collaborative trial to explore sustainable models of primary health care delivery in remote communities.

THE PROGRAM

The Remote Integrated and Collaborative Health (RICH) initiative is funded by a grant from the Murray Darling Basin Authority, Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation, the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and the Foundation.

RATIONALE

Rural and remote communities are losing access to local health care every day. If we do nothing, thousands will suffer and die. The RICH Program aims to explore how we can reverse the trend of declining care using innovation.

PROGRAM SCOPE

The program engages across allied health, nursing, specialists and Aboriginal Health Workers to explore new models of care.

PERFORMANCE

We are tracking performance across a number of domains including quality, health outcomes and financial sustainability to determine the appropriate models and mix to improve health in rural and remote Australia.

GET INVOLVED

Interested in what we are doing? Have your own ideas for improving access to health care in remote communities? Get in touch!

PROGRAM RATIONALE

Our current approaches to community and individual health are not working. Our health system is designed around 'illness and injury', not keeping people healthy in their communities.

The Remote Integrated and Collaborative Health (RICH) program was co-designed by the Foundation, InterHealthCare (a private allied health company with a passion for rural health) and our communities to reimagine health care as a high quality, community-led and integrated system that places people at the centre of care.