RDN hosts National Rural Health Student Network (NRHSN) Executive Handover Workshop

Last week, RDN had the pleasure of hosting the National Rural Health Student Network (NRHSN) Executive Handover workshop in our St Leonards office. The two-day workshop allowed the 2023 committee to handover to the new 2024 committee.  

NRHSN represents the future of rural health in Australia and has more than 11,000 members who belong to 29 university Rural Health Clubs from all states and territories. The NRHSN aims to provide a voice for students who are interested in improving health outcomes for rural and remote Australians; and promote rural health careers to students and encourage students who are interested in practising in rural health care. 

The NRHSN is an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, administered by the Consortium of Rural Workforce Agencies (RWAs). RDN is the RWA managing the NRHSN on behalf of the Consortium. 

The NRHSN is Australia’s only multi-disciplinary student health network, bringing together people studying medicine, nursing and allied health, encouraging them to pursue rural health careers. 

At the Workshop, the group worked on their business planning and priorities for 2024, discussed strategies for stakeholder engagement and advocacy and heard from the Department of Health and Aged Care and RDN’s CEO, Richard Colbran who represented the RWAs. 

Learn more about the NRHSN here.