Rural Health Stakeholder Roundtable

Role

The Rural Health Stakeholder Roundtable was established in 2015 to:

• promote strategic discussion
• bring together key stakeholders to develop rural health policy.

It discusses topics such as:

• distribution of the health workforce
• the role of Primary Health Networks in prioritising and commissioning services
• remote area health workforce safety
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce issues and support
• the work of the workforce data, current supply and future demand.

Members

The Minister for Regional Health chairs the roundtable.

The following stakeholders take part:

• Allied Health Professions Australia
• Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
• Australian Dental Association
• Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association
• Australian Medical Association
• Australian Rural Health Education Network
• Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives
• CRANAplus
• Federation of Rural Australian Medical Educators
• Indigenous Allied Health Australia
• National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners
• National Rural Health Alliance
• National Rural Health Student Network
• National Rural Health Commissioner
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
• Rural Doctors Association of Australia
• Rural Health Workforce Australia
• Rural Workforce Agencies Network
• Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
• Pharmacy Guild of Australia.

Meetings

The roundtable aims to meet twice per year.

Meeting summaries

From May 2021, meetings resumed their usual focus on rural health more broadly.

From March 2020 to May 2021, roundtable meetings focused on the COVID-19 pandemic:

• 18 February 2021
• 9 December 2020
• 8 October 2020
• 27 August 2020
• 24 July 2020
• 19 June 2020
• 22 May 2020
• 1 May 2020
• 17 April 2020
• 3 April 2020
• 27 March 2020
• 20 March 2020

See communiques from 2016 to 2019. 

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