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.

Countryside out of reach

New research from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) shows that the UK’s poorest residents are missing out on England’s most beautiful countryside and the related mental and physical

Read More

Walking & Cycling Statistics

The Government has an ambition for increased levels of activity both through cycling and walking.  The following analyses take a look at statistics from the Department for Transport, and shows

Read More

Podcast Episode – The rural food bank

Carole Walker, is a former political news correspondent with the BBC.  She has developed her own Podcast called ‘The View from Here’ and has kindly allowed the Rural Services Network

Read More

Underfunding of rural hospitals

Health think tank The Nuffield Trust has published its review on the impact of rurality on the costs of delivering health care in partnership with the National Centre for Rural

Read More

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.

Countryside out of reach

New research from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) shows that the UK’s poorest residents are missing out on England’s most beautiful countryside and the related mental and physical

Read More

Walking & Cycling Statistics

The Government has an ambition for increased levels of activity both through cycling and walking.  The following analyses take a look at statistics from the Department for Transport, and shows

Read More

Podcast Episode – The rural food bank

Carole Walker, is a former political news correspondent with the BBC.  She has developed her own Podcast called ‘The View from Here’ and has kindly allowed the Rural Services Network

Read More

Underfunding of rural hospitals

Health think tank The Nuffield Trust has published its review on the impact of rurality on the costs of delivering health care in partnership with the National Centre for Rural

Read More