** UPDATE 30 May: All free copies of the Keep Safe have now been distributed, so there are no free copies available anymore. **
Generous funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing has enabled the Foundation to provide its Keep Safe program free on DVD or VHS …
read more »A new Rural Health Education Foundation program on Chlamydia, airing on Tuesday 13 March, will empower health practitioners to combat the Chlamydia epidemic.
Chlamydia: Combating the Epidemic, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, alerts health practitioners to the high and increasing prevalence of Chlamydia and the need …
read more »The Rural Health Education Foundation will have an exhibition booth at the National Rural Health Conference from Wednesday 7 to Saturday 10 March 2007.
This year’s four-day National Rural Health Conference, the ninth to be staged, will take place at the Albury Convention Centre in Albury, NSW.
Open invitation
Foundation CEO Don …
read more »** UPDATE 5 April 2007: All free copies of the Falls Prevention program have now been distributed, so there are no free copies available anymore. **
Generous funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing has enabled the Foundation to provide its Falls Prevention program free on DVD …
read more »The Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV) is establishing a register of doctors and other medical practice personnel who are willing to provide relief on a voluntary basis to practices in fire affected areas.
The purpose of the register is to provide backup support to divisions that are coordinating fire relief in …
read more »The Rural Health Education Foundation has released its preliminary schedule of accredited satellite television broadcasts for the period January to June 2007.
Over this period there are at least 11 programs that can be viewed on release usually on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, with repeats during Friday daytime (now at 12.30pm …
read more »The Rural Health Education Foundation is pleased to announce an important new partnership with the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR).
The Foundation and FRRR will be working together to enable additional rural and remote health and medical organisations to join the Foundation’s satellite network and view the foundation’s health …
read more »The Rural Health Education Foundation has released a new strategic plan covering the period 2006-2010.
In his introduction to the document, Foundation Chairman Dr Brian Bowring predicted that the new plan would “guide the development of the Foundation to a new level of service delivery to (its) constituents.”
Strategic priorities
The plan …
read more »Online video webstreams and audio podcasts are now available for the Rural Health Education Foundation’s updated Aboriginal programs Keep Safe, Start Strong and Grow Strong.
The three 26-minute programs, which were all recently broadcast on SBS Television, are presented by Karla Grant, the well-known face of SBS TV’s national Aboriginal current …
read more »Australia only has between five and 10 years to put systems in place to deal with dementia in rural and regional Australia or it will be swamped by an epidemic of unprecedented proportions, a dementia expert claims.
Dementia is an illness causing memory loss and progressive decline in thinking and memory, …
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