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.
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29/11/2023 - RSN & NCRHC Seminar: Tackling the rural health and care workforce problem

- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here


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HIGHLIGHTS
PRESENTATIONS



SPEAKERS

To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:

Professor Jim Rourke, Professor Emeritus & former Dean of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/dr-james-rourke-biography.pdf

Adrian Clements, Executive Medical Director, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
https://www.ncic.nhs.uk/trust/how-we-are-run/meet-board

Lisa Hughes, Associate Head of Workforce Transformation, NHS England
https://www.england.nhs.uk/

Claire Flavell, Strategic Lead, Lincolnshire Talent Academy
https://lincstalentacademy.org.uk/


USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

Progress made on rural health care in Canada
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012120/  

NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-workforce-plan/

Chief Medical Officer Report on Health in an Ageing Society
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65562ff2d03a8d000d07faa6/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2023-web-accessible.pdf

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

Rural Communities Debate Westminster Hall 28 November 2023
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-11-28/debates/F6EE3FEC-DF47-4372-9A24-ADF67179BF28/RuralCommunitiesGovernmentSupport#main-content


NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RURAL HEALTH AND CARE RESOURCES

Rural Proofing for Health Toolkit:
https://www.ncrhc.org/assets/downloads/Rural_Proofing_for_Health_Toolkit_(1).pdf  

Parliamentary Inquiry on Rural Health and Care:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/RuralHealthandCareAPPGInquiryRep.pdf

The National Centre for Rural Health and Care’s thoughts on the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/uploads-new/NCRHC_response_to_NHS_Workforce_.pdf


RURAL SERVICES NETWORK RESOURCES

Wining the Rural Vote: A roadmap for rural success
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/winning-the-rural-vote

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

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

Rural Lens Review on the Health White Paper
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/rural-lens/health-white-paper-rural-lens-review.pdf   

Rural health and wellbeing indicators at a local authority level
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/health-wellbeing-social-services-insight

RSN Fair Funding Campaign
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/fairer-funding-campaign