Rural Access to Health and Care Services

Rural residents face distinct healthcare challenges, including limited access to transport, longer distances to medical facilities, an aging demographic, housing inadequacies, digital connectivity gaps, and recruitment hurdles for healthcare workers.

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14 Feb 2022

Rural Health and Care and Levelling-Up Press Release

The Levelling Up White Paper follows hot on the heels of the Inquiry into Rural Health and Care, launched on 1st February.  This highlighted the various significant problems experienced by...

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08 Feb 2022

The Levelling Up White Paper: Initial views of the RSN: How can it be made to work for rural settings?

At some 350 pages in length (plus a Technical Annex on Missions and Metrics), it will take us some time to consider all the rural issues in a ‘Rural Lens...

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08 Feb 2022

Rural health services need ‘levelling up’, MPs say

Local Gov reports that a three-year investigation undertaken by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Rural Health and Care and the National Centre for Rural Health and Care has found...

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08 Feb 2022

Adult Social Care User Survey

The Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Survey England (ASCS) is a national survey that is repeated every year The survey, which forms part of a national programme led by...

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03 Feb 2022

Hartpury continue to shape the future of digital farming

DronePrep who support drone delivery projects across the UK via their innovative technology platform and Drone Delivery Register app, connect drone pilots with landowners allowing them to plan flights and...

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03 Feb 2022

Exploring barriers to accessing online health services in Devon

Independent community development charity Devon Communities Together is collaborating with community health and wellbeing organisation, Wellmoor, on NHSX’s Digital Inclusion Pioneers Programme, to explore and understand the barriers to accessing...

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03 Feb 2022

Rural GPs under pressure because governments fail to rural proof

Dispensing doctors’ income is under pressure from Government policy in two UK nations, as a result of insufficient rural proofing. Dispensing GP surgeries are mainly located in rural locations, where...

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03 Feb 2022

Rural district nursing is not for the faint-hearted

Worcestershire is a rural county of valleys, rivers and patchwork fields, bordered by the Malvern Hills. Surrounded by outstanding natural beauty, it is easy to forget the challenges those living...

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03 Feb 2022

The Importance of Reminiscence in Rural Communities – The Queen’s Jubilee

When Living Memories C.I.C. started running its first pilot Tea & Memories community reminiscence group in 2018 in Colyton, East Devon, little did we know how popular the regular gatherings...

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03 Feb 2022

Lincolnshire patient thanks new COVID service for saving his life

Patients who are a greater risk of becoming seriously unwell from COVID-19 have praised a new service designed to aid their recovery from the virus and keep them out of...

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