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.
22 Apr 2015
Cumbria Technology Enabled Care Event
Find out about the latest developments in technology enabled health and social care products and services and to talk about how we can use technology in the redesign of Health...
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13 Apr 2015
Breaking the silence on mental health
What can we do to reduce the stigma and inequalities facing rural people experiencing mental distress? Jessica Sellick investigates. According to Defra’s Statistical Digest of Rural England, if you live...
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10 Feb 2015
Active People Survey Analysis 8
The Active People Survey tracks the number of people taking part in sport at region, county sport partnership and local authority level. We have used the results from the ASP8...
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18 Jan 2015
Call for reversal of GP funding cuts
CUTS in health funding that could see scores of GP surgeries close must be reversed, says a rural charity. Changes to the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) will hit the...
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13 Jan 2015
Launch of the NHS Commissioning Assembly Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) resource for commissioners
Technologies such as telehealth, telecare, telemedicine, telecoaching and self-care apps have the potential to transform the way people engage in and control their own healthcare, empowering them to manage it...
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04 Dec 2014
Access to health facilities – calls to Government
The Rural Services Network calls upon an incoming Government to: Ask its Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA) to review the NHS resource allocation formula for Clinical Commissioning Groups, so...
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20 Jul 2014
University leads rural health project
AN initiative to improve health services in rural communities is being led by the University of Cumbria. The Cumbria Rural Health Forum (CRHF) has been set up to address some...
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13 Jul 2014
Slower response times for ambulances
AMBULANCES are taking longer to reach people with life-threatening conditions, suggest statistics released by NHS England. Six of England’s eleven ambulance trust England’s ambulance services missed the expected target. The...
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23 May 2014
GPs warn ‘surgeries will close without more NHS funding’
Below is a snippet from article take from the Independent: GP leaders have warned that patient care “from Cumbria to London’s East End” is under “imminent threat” because of a...
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15 May 2014
Take up of formal childcare by low income working families
Take-up of formal childcare by low income families can bring benefits to children’s learning and development. This analysis looks at an authorities comparative situation against the rural/urban averages for all...
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