The National Rural Conference 2025

Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
Click here to book!

16/11/22 - RSN Seminar: Rural Health and Social Care

- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here

POST EVENT:
PRESENTATIONS

To view a PowerPoint copy of this presentation with the notes click here




SPEAKERS

To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:
Rural Services Network - https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/
The Patient Association - https://www.patients-association.org.uk/  
Health Education England - https://www.hee.nhs.uk/
One Northern Devon - https://onenortherndevon.co.uk/


USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

Revitalising Rural: Realising the Vision campaign, please follow this link: https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/revitalising-rural

Rural Health and Care Services Chapter and asks of Government, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/revitalising-rural/access-to-health-and-care.pdf

Managing Older Population Chapter is a useful resource too, please follow this link: 
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/revitalising-rural/managing-older-rural-population.pdf 

Rural Lens Review of the Adult Social Care Reform White Paper, please follow the link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/rural-lens/adult-social-care-rural-lens-review.pdf  

State of Care in County and Rural Areas, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/the-state-of-care-in-counties-full-report.pdf 

Chief Medical Officer’s Report on Health in Coastal Communities, please follow this link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2021-health-in-coastal-communities

The APPG Rural Health & Care parliamentary inquiry report, please follow this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/major-inquiry-highlights-the-urban-rural-divide-in-accessing-health-and-care

Rural Lens Review of the Levelling Up White Paper, please follow this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/overarching-rural-lens-review-of-levelling-up-white-paper-published

Rural Lens Review of the People at the Heart of Care Adult Social Care Reform White Paper, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/rural-lens/adult-social-care-rural-lens-review.pdf

Rural Lens Review of the Health White Paper, please follow the link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/rural-lens/health-white-paper-rural-lens-review.pdf 

Rural Lens Reviews series covers a wide range of topics including net zero, transport as well as health and social care, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-lens

Rural Proofing for Health Toolkit, please follow the link:
https://ruralengland.org/rural-proofing-for-health-toolkit/ 

Local authority health and wellbeing indicators, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/health-wellbeing-social-services-insight

Fair Cost of Care Fund, please visit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/market-sustainability-and-fair-cost-of-care-fund-2022-to-2023-guidance/market-sustainability-and-fair-cost-of-care-fund-2022-to-2023-guidance

Westminster Hall debate on Rural Health and Care, please visit:
https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/will-quince/debate/2022-10-12/commons/westminster-hall/rural-healthcare


To find out more about RSN members relevant to the seminar
 click on the following links:

The National Centre for Rural Health and Care
https://www.ncrhc.org/

Rural Health and Care Alliance
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/rhca-members

Linkage Community Trust a charity that supports people with learning disabilities. To find out more click on this link:
https://www.linkage.org.uk/

Community Catalysts a CIC that runs several community care initiatives across the country.  To find out more read their latest blog at: https://www.communitycatalysts.co.uk/2022/11/14/extending-our-amazing-community-micro-enterprise-project-across-suffolk/

The Community HeartBeat Trust a charity which supports communities with the correct provision of defibrillators, visit:
https://www.communityheartbeat.org.uk/ 


SEMINAR SPONSOR

Our seminar programme is kindly sponsored by Airband, an independent internet service provider bringing high speed broadband to homes, business and industry in rural and hard-to-reach areas. To find out more and check availability visit https://www.airband.co.uk/