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.
12 Nov 2018
Calls to reduce rural road speed limits
The Sunday Times reported on calls from the cycling charity Sustrans for a reduction in the speed limit on rural roads from 60 to 40 miles per hour. The charity’s...
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12 Nov 2018
Rural hospitals on knife crime frontline
The Guardian reported on the pressures being faced by rural hospitals as a result of the so-called ‘county lines’ drugs trade, which has seen urban gangs moving drugs between cities...
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05 Nov 2018
Budget Review – Implications for Rural Communities
The Treasury have provided us with a summary of announcements from the Budget 2018 which benefit Rural Areas. Below is a table showing these announcements set against the RSN...
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29 Oct 2018
Record surge in takeaways
High streets around the UK now have the highest concentration of fast food shops since 2010, according to the BBC and the Daily Mail. Studies have drawn a direct link...
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29 Oct 2018
Survey uncovers rural isolation/loneliness
In August 2018 Bipolar UK surveyed their supporters to identify the specific needs of rural and urban communities. The recently released findings uncovered that living in rural communities exacerbated isolation,...
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22 Oct 2018
Rural Health and Care Alliance launched
The National Central for Rural Health and Care (NCRHC) was launched in Parliament on Tuesday. Several MPs attended the event, with Anne-Marie Morris, MP for Newton Abbot and chair of...
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22 Oct 2018
Rural healthcare pressures
The University of Birmingham and Rose Regeneration have published a joint report into workforce challenges in the NHS and social care from a rural point of view. It found the...
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22 Oct 2018
Community support limitations
The Local Government Chronicle has responded to the Government’s recently announced strategy to tackle loneliness. The publication lauds Theresa May’s intention but questions the real effect ‘without much money to...
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22 Oct 2018
The Needs of Rural Communities
Bipolar UK survey findings: In August 2018 we surveyed our supporters to identify the specific needs of rural and urban communities. A total of 371 people responded, 26% of whom lived...
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22 Oct 2018
Housing is about far more than putting a roof over somebody’s head
15 years ago Norma’s front door was boarded up after the glass was smashed and she’s lived with this ever since. She’d reported it to us and we’d asked for...
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