Rural practice 13
Track 24
| Saturday, October 28, 2023 |
| 10:35 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Meeting Room E3.6 |
Overview
Session will be between 1135 - 1230 hours
Speaker
Prof Alan Bruce Chater
Chair
Rural Wonca
Effective pathways to rural practice – bringing a rural lens to health policy formulation
11:35 AM - 12:30 PMSummary
Rural Wonca (the Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice) has, over 30 years, advocated for an equitable and evidence-based approach to Rural Health. Rural Wonca has collaborated with WHO in the production of WHO guideline on health workforce development, attraction, recruitment and retention in rural and remote areas (so-called “Rural Pathways”) and is working with WHO Department for Gender, Equity, Human Rights and OECD in addressing health equity by “Rural Proofing” health policy.
The Rural Pathways and Rural Proofing initiatives provide policy tools that support high-quality healthcare provided by Rural Generalists including rural Family Physicians, nurses and others, in rural communities.
This session will build on work done within the rural sector at the Rural Medicine 2023 official pre-conference meeting and will bring these issues to a wider audience of Family Doctors and to policymakers who have influence in the rural sector. The Roundtable will focus on international experience with Rural Pathways and look at how a Rural Proofing lens can be applied to health policy, planning and programs.
The roundtable will be co-hosted by the Chair of the Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice who will provide an international perspective and the Australian Rural Health Commissioner who will focus on the Australian context.
Participants will be encouraged to share their context, challenges and successful experiences.
The Roundtable will be facilitated by international experts from within Rural Wonca and partner organisations and seek to highlight effective and practical approaches to rural health policy and especially rural health workforce.
The Rural Pathways and Rural Proofing initiatives provide policy tools that support high-quality healthcare provided by Rural Generalists including rural Family Physicians, nurses and others, in rural communities.
This session will build on work done within the rural sector at the Rural Medicine 2023 official pre-conference meeting and will bring these issues to a wider audience of Family Doctors and to policymakers who have influence in the rural sector. The Roundtable will focus on international experience with Rural Pathways and look at how a Rural Proofing lens can be applied to health policy, planning and programs.
The roundtable will be co-hosted by the Chair of the Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice who will provide an international perspective and the Australian Rural Health Commissioner who will focus on the Australian context.
Participants will be encouraged to share their context, challenges and successful experiences.
The Roundtable will be facilitated by international experts from within Rural Wonca and partner organisations and seek to highlight effective and practical approaches to rural health policy and especially rural health workforce.
Takeaways
Participants will identify:
a) the concepts and basis of Rural Pathways and Rural Proofing,
b) health system challenges that can be addressed by developing Rural Pathways and applying Rural Proofing,
c) practical approaches to apply to their rural health workforce and healthcare needs
a) the concepts and basis of Rural Pathways and Rural Proofing,
b) health system challenges that can be addressed by developing Rural Pathways and applying Rural Proofing,
c) practical approaches to apply to their rural health workforce and healthcare needs
Biography
Professor Alan Bruce Chater is from Queensland, Australia where he is Medical Superintendent with Right to Private Practice in the rural town of Theodore.
He is Chair of Rural Wonca (World Organization of General Practitioners Working Party on Rural Practice), Mayne Professor and Head of the Discipline of Rural and Remote Medicine at University of Queensland, and was for 10 years on the Australian Independent Hospital Pricing Authority Board. He was the founding convenor of the Rural Doctors Associations of Queensland and Australia and the founding Chair of the Australian National Rural Health Alliance and inaugural Chair of the Statewide Rural and Remote Clinical Network Queensland Health.
He remains grounded in the needs of rural communities as he performs these roles while providing comprehensive rural generalist hospital practice and general practice in Theodore. He has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to Rural Medicine and his rural community.
