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Past issues of Outpost
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Optometry Student Experience (31/10/18)
Fifth-year optometry student, Gabrielle Grant-Nilon, completed a four-week outreach placement by participating in Visiting Optometrist Scheme (VOS)-funded optometry clinics earlier this year. Read more...
Hope Wall Art Therapy Project (31/10/18)
The Hope Wall Project at Ballina Public School, an art therapy initiative for Aboriginal students, was initiated by Outreach paediatrician, Dr Blessy Charles, in late 2017. Read more...
Speech Pathology Upskilling (31/10/18)
The Healthy Ears, Better Hearing, Better Listening (HEBHBL) program supported outreach speech pathologist, Louisa Rostron, and Hunter New England Local Health District (LHD) to provide language development upskilling sessions in Tamworth. Read more...
Women’s Heart Awareness Program (31/10/18)
A promising Women’s Heart Awareness Program has commenced in Lismore to educate Aboriginal women on the signs and risks of heart attacks and promote steps to better heart health. Read more...
Rural cadet shares experience working at an Opthalmology Outreach Clinic (12/07/18)
Leanne Uren, a rural cadet from the University of Notre Dame in Lithgow, has shared her experiences working in rural NSW with an Ophthalmology outreach clinic at Moree. Read more...
'Invaluable' outreach experience for Moree med student (09/01/17)
In September and November 2016, third year medical student and RDN Cadet Jenny Stokes, had the great opportunity to accompany Associate Professor John Eden, Gynaecologist and Reproductive Endocrinologist, on his monthly outreach gynaecology clinic in Moree’s Puis X Aboriginal Medical Centre. Read more...
New diabetes clinic in Windsor (08/12/16)
Aboriginal people and those on a low income in the Hawkesbury area, can now access a bulk-billed multi-disciplinary diabetes clinic in Windsor. This new service is a joint program between the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network (NBMPHN), Nepean Diabetes Service and Advance Medical Practice, with funding from RDN. Read more...
Access to ENT services for Aboriginal families - a statewide update (01/08/16)
Over the past twelve months, the NSW Rural Doctors Network has worked closely with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS), Local Health Districts (LHDs) and Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) specialists to deliver additional ENT consultation and surgical clinics across NSW. Read more...
Budyari Aboriginal Community Health Centre - Outreach to an urban Aboriginal community (08/03/16)
Budyari began 15 years ago as a NSW Aboriginal Vascular Health Program demonstration site that was set up to deliver chronic care services for the Liverpool Local Government Area catchment that is home to more than 2500 Aboriginal people. Read more...
Primary eye health training and Outreach upskilling sessions (08/03/16)
RDN’s needs assessment for the Visiting Optometrist Scheme (VOS) found most Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) in NSW have access to primary eye care services through visiting or local optometrists and relationships with ophthalmologists. However, improving primary care workers’ confidence in basic eye care screening was identified as a need across Western NSW through the Western NSW Eye Health Partnership that is funded by the Fred Hollows Foundation and facilitated by the NSW Rural Doctors Network. Read more...
ENT surgery commences in Griffith (24/8/15)
Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) surgery has recommenced at Griffith Base Hospital to treat Aboriginal children with ear health conditions. The service was established after Griffith Aboriginal Medical Service identified a need to provide local access to ENT surgery as part of a state-wide ear health needs assessment conducted by the NSW Rural Doctors Network. Studies indicate that close to 10 percent of Aboriginal children have ear or hearing problems compared to three percent of non-Aboriginal children. Read more...
New maternity service for Collarenebri and Mungindi (9/6/15)
A much-needed outreach maternity program that provides antenatal services to Aboriginal women in two isolated rural communities has commenced. The service allows Aboriginal women to access comprehensive antenatal care on country and closer to home, and to receive timely referrals to specialised perinatal services. Read more...
Ear Bus Project is on the road (27/5/15)
Rural children will soon benefit from the new Hear Our Hearts Ear Bus Project initiative that aims to improve ear health across Western NSW. The initiative covers Dubbo and surrounding districts and there are future plans to have the Ear Bus on the road regularly, going to schools and childcare centres to educate and test students so that hearing issues can be addressed in a timely manner. Read more...
New ENT outreach service commences in Ballina (1/4/15)
Bullinah Aboriginal Health Service hosted their first Ear, Nose and Throat clinic in February. Dr Puneet Titoria, who visited the Aboriginal service in Ballina from Lismore Base Hospital, advised that more than half of the that 20 Aboriginal paediatric and youth patients that attended the clinic would require further follow-up - either at his rooms or for surgical intervention. Read more...
Nurse Practitioner-led Colposcopy clinic in rural NSW (24/11/14)
What began as an idea by the NSW Rural Doctors Network in 2012 has now become a significant Aboriginal women’s health service. Indeed, it is likely that the service is the first nurse practitioner-led colposcopy clinic in Australia. This means the nurse practitioner is wholly responsible for the clinic from accepting referrals, triage, addressing the results, providing follow-up and pursuing a defined education plan. Read more...
Outreach to 133 NSW and ACT towns (21/7/14)
The Department of Health has this month approved the NSW Rural Doctors Network 2014-15 Outreach Plan that supports 1,063 visiting medical specialist, allied health and nurse services. Read more...
Student gains unique experience on outreach visit to Lightning Ridge (18/10/13)
The NSW Rural Doctors Network supports medical and allied health students to participate in specialist outreach clinics throughout rural and remote NSW. A recent instance of this support enabled Mat McAlpine, a medical student studying at the University Centre for Rural Health in Lismore, to travel to Lightning Ridge to work with Paediatric Psychiatrist Dr Clive Smith during his monthly health outreach visit. Read more...
Visiting dermatologist recruited for Far West (23/9/13)
A much needed dermatology service has been secured for Broken Hill. With funding and support from the NSW Rural Doctors Network, the Far West NSW Medicare Local (FWML) has recently succeeded in recruiting a visiting Dermatologist for two days each month. Read more...
Nurse-led colposcopy outreach clinic in Orange (18/9/13)
A ground-breaking nurse-run colposcopy clinic at Orange Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) is becoming firmly established with 72 patient consultations in its first year of operation. Read more...
Orthoptist service for Broken Hill (16/9/13)
The NSW Rural Doctors Network has recently recruited two new Orthoptists to Broken Hill in Far West NSW. Read more...
