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.
27 Jul 2022
Rural and Coastal Areas Facing Serious Health Challenges
Patrick Mitchell, Director of Innovation, Digital and Transformation, Health Education England A combination of worsening health, ageing populations, social deprivation, and workforce staffing issues are leaving health and care services...
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27 Jul 2022
“Are you thinking about suicide?”
By Fiona Bone, Suicide Prevention Lead at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust Asking directly is absolutely the right thing to do if you are worried about someone. And with just...
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18 Jul 2022
Boom in elderly in rural areas ‘increasing pressure on social care services’
The Evening Standard reports analysis by the County Council Network (CCN) revealed that the number of over-65s living in county and rural areas has increased by a million over the...
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18 Jul 2022
Heatwave advice from the RSN
After a week of high temperatures across the UK, the Met Office has issued a very rare amber warning for much of England In many parts of the Country temperatures...
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11 Jul 2022
Dartmoor charity stopping service due to carer shortage
The BBC report a Devon charity that provides care to people in their own homes is stopping its service because it cannot find enough carers North East Dartmoor Care (NEDCare), based...
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04 Jul 2022
Older Rural Residents grow in number
The first results are in from Census 2021 and they show a worrying trend for rural service providers Rural areas have always had a greater share of over 65 residents...
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04 Jul 2022
Up to 50% of all GP post could become vacant over the next 10 years
Chronicle Live reports that new estimates by the Health Foundation suggest a quarter of posts could be vacant in the next 10 years, with a worst case scenario putting the...
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27 Jun 2022
Not enough money for adult social care reforms, say 98 per cent of councils
Almost all councils (98 per cent) responding to a Local Government Association (LGA) survey on the Government’s adult social care reform agenda say they do not have confidence that the...
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27 Jun 2022
Accessing digital services in rural communities
Research published by Work Foundation at Lancashire University discusses digital poverty and how this is a particular problem in rural areas Excerpts of the research, which the Rural Services Network...
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20 Jun 2022
Alarming new figures show the desperate shortage of GPs as rural areas are worst hit
The Daily Mail reports that Doctors in Unite union claim that the UK is short of 20,000 GPs, with health think tank The King’s Fund adding that general practice is...
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