Access to health facilities
The Rural Services Network wants to see rural communities provided with access to high quality health care services, delivered locally wherever that is possible and effective. This should reflect the ageing demographic of rural populations.
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08 Jan 2024
London gets well over ‘fair share’ of specialised NHS services while rural areas miss out
The Health Service Journal recently reported on NHS England figures. HSJ findings suggest “people in some more rural areas are missing out on specialist treatments they should be getting, while...
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08 Jan 2024
Solution for lack of pharmacies?
Two Universities are joining up to tackle the growing problem of a recruitment crisis in pharmacies in the South West. The BBC reports on how “the University of Bath is...
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25 Sep 2023
Lib Dems promise better access to rural GPs
New research carried out by the Liberal Democrats shows the four-week waiting time to see a GP is three times higher in some rural areas than urban ones. The figures...
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10 Jul 2023
RSN joins call for the Government to help rural communities in its new Major Health Conditions Strategy
As the Government reviews the responses to its Major Conditions Consultation, RSN has joined members of the Rural Coalition on calling for a tailored approach to rural areas’ specific needs....
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09 May 2022
Rural travel times to GP practice is more than double than in urban areas
An article published by Dispensing Doctors’ Association show that people in rural areas require more than double the time to get to a GP than in urban areas, the latest Statistical...
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04 Dec 2014
Access to health facilities – calls to Government
The Rural Services Network calls upon an incoming Government to: Ask its Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA) to review the NHS resource allocation formula for Clinical Commissioning Groups, so...
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