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13th National Rural Health Conference Program
SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015
Pre-conference events: go to http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/13nrhc/preconference for further details
7.00 am – 7.00 pm Bus tour to Nauiyu Nambiyu Community Organised with the help of local Primary Health Care Manager and Friend of the Alliance, Janet Fletcher; and Gary Higgins MP, Member for Daly, NT, and Minister for Sport and Recreation; Senior Territorians; Environment; and Minister assisting the Minister for Arts and Museums
Nauiyu Community
8.00 am – 5.00 pm Rural Emergency Skills Training (REST) (Friday 22 and Saturday 23 May 2015) Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Travelodge Mirambeena
8.00 am – 5.15 pm Rural Emergency Obstetrics Training (REOT) Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Adina/Vibe Hotel
9.00 am – 5.00 pm MediSim Trauma Care Workshop—CareFlight Regional, rural and remote first responders are often the first people on scene at major trauma incidents. What they do in the first minutes can make the difference between a full or limited recovery, or life and death. CareFlight’s free workshop will be delivered by doctors, nurses and paramedics and will provide high quality trauma training for first responders
MR4 Convention Centre
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SUNDAY 24 MAY 2015
8.30 am Registration desk open Ground floor Convention Centre
9.00 am – 3.00 pm The Improvement challenge: how local health performance information creates opportunities to improve rural and remote health outcomes A collaborative event from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association and the National Health Performance Authority
Waterfront 2 Convention Centre
9.15 am – 3.30 pm NDIS opportunities and possibilities: delivering the NDIS in rural and remote areas A practical workshop to identify the NDIS funding opportunities; examine successful service models and the organisational change required by the NDIS; explore the key worker model for disability services in rural and remote areas; and discuss best practice Indigenous disability service delivery.
The Hilton Hotel
10.30 am – 3.30 pm Cultural responsiveness: an action based approach to cultural safety A collaborative event from the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association, Indigenous Allied Health Australia, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Association, and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
Waterfront 1 Convention Centre
10.00 am – 3.00 pm The rural health guide to social media: learn how to survive and thrive online With David Townsend and other (‘power’!) social media users
Neptuna/Vibe rooms Adina/Vibe Hotel
10.00 am – 3.30 pm Medicines in the bush: multi-disciplinary workshop Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
Meeting room 1 Convention Centre
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Getting Friendly Hosted by Friends of the Alliance—come and meet some old Friends and make some new contacts—all welcome
Foyer, Level 1 Convention Centre
1.00 pm – 3.45 pm Writing for publication workshop, Australian Journal of Rural Health Workshop leaders: David Perkins, Jeff Fuller and Peter D’Onghia
Waterfront 3 Convention Centre
2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Learn to play the didgeridoo With Tony Lee (Max. 10 participants, men only)
Foyer, level 2 Convention Centre
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm ‘Window seat: (the) way to work’ Photographic exhibition by Luke Arkapaw, supporting the Miriam Rose Foundation Exhibition will remain on display for the duration of the Conference
Meeting Room 3 Convention Centre
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SUNDAY 24 MAY 2015
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Exhibition Hall open Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
4.00 pm – 6.15 pm
PLENARY 1: PEOPLE, PLACES, POSSIBILITIES—OPENING SESSION Hosted by Larrakia Nation and the National Rural Health Alliance
Auditorium
4.00 pm Welcome ceremony: Nadine Lee and Tony Lee, Larrakia Nation
4.20 pm Welcome and opening remarks Nicole O’Reilly, Conference Convenor Charlie King, Master of Ceremonies Katrina Fong Lim, Lord Mayor, Darwin
4.30 pm Opening performance Shellie Morris, 2014 NT Australian of the Year
5.00 pm Opening addresses John Elferink MLA, NT Minister for Health Senator Fiona Nash, Assistant Federal Minister for Health
5.30 pm Carole Reeve, Senior Lecturer, Remote Medical Education, Centre for Remote Health The challenge of providing fair care
6.00 pm Awards: Louis Ariotti Award and Des Murray Scholars Ray Taylor and Tim Kelly
6.10 pm The People, Places and Possibilities of the National Rural Health Alliance Tim Kelly, Chairperson, NRHA
6.20 pm – 7.20 pm
WELCOME RECEPTION—SPONSORED BY THE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION including a performance by the Darwin Rondalla
Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
6.30 pm Launch of ‘Window seat: (the) way to work’—a photographic exhibition by Luke Arkapaw in support of the Miriam Rose Foundation Meeting Room 3
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MONDAY 25 MAY 2015 6.30 am Morning activities—meet outside The Coffee Club on the Waterfront
Heart Foundation Walking—start your day the healthy way with a 30-minute walk with Allan, Greg and Bob from the Heart Foundation NT Walking Group
Tai Chi—with Kevin Walle
8.00 am Registration desk open Foyer
8.00 am Exhibition open, posters on display Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
8.40 am – 10.30 am
PLENARY SESSION 2: THE PEOPLE OF REMOTE AND RURAL HEALTH Auditorium
8.40 am Desak Putu Warti, Balinese dance performance
8.50 am MC—A focus on people
9.00 am Keynote 1: Megan Davis, Director, Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW An international and domestic law perspective on the health and wellbeing of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
9.20 am Keynote 2: David Butt, Chief Executive Officer, National Mental Health Commission on behalf of Rob Knowles, National Mental Health Commissioner How well is our current health system supporting people in rural, regional and remote Australia?
9.40 am Keynote 3: Stephanie Trust, Medical Director, Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council, Broome Delivering health care in rural and remote areas that is high quality and reflective of need is challenging
10.00 am Discussant: Warren Snowdon MP, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories; Indigenous Affairs; and Northern Australia
Discussion with the speakers and the audience
10.20 am Neil Saxton, Executive Manager, Engagement Strategy Unit HESTA HESTA’s journey towards our first Reconciliation Action Plan—a case study in organisational support
10.25 am Welcome to the Recommendations process: Sharing Shed—introductory video
10.30 am MORNING TEA AND VIEWING OF POSTERS Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
10.55 am Chimes for start of concurrent sessions
11.00 am –
1.00 pm Pandanus weaving workshop with the Gunga Weavers from Arnhem Land Foyer
Convention Centre
NOTE: Concurrent sessions are managed in such a way as to enable delegates to switch from one stream to another after 20, 45 or 70 minutes—this means delegates can optimise their attendance at concurrent sessions. Of course if you want to rest your legs and stay in the same concurrent session for 95 minutes you are very welcome to do so!
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MONDAY 25 MAY 2015 11.00 am – 12.35 pm CONCURRENT SESSION A
Auditorium Waterfront 1 Waterfront 2 Waterfront 3 Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Neptuna/Mavie
Vibe Hotel Mauna Loa Vibe Hotel
A1 Motivation for rural practice
A2 Birthing services and babies
A3 Quality use of medicines
A4 Community capacity for healthy lifestyles
A5 Wellbeing of young people
A6 Healthy rural ageing
A7 Arts and Health
A8 Engaging with vulnerable people
A9 Colloquium on planning and managing rural health services
A10 Listening to lived experience
Chair: Robyn Williams Anne Bousfield Joe O’Malley Warren Snowdon Diane Walsh Angela Frazer Angela O’Donnell Lisa Bourke Lyndon Seys Lynne Strathie
Scribe: Belinda O’Sullivan
Samantha Green
Leigh Moore
Kate Tasker
Rachel Jaeger Ruth McLeod Sarah Schubert Christopher Stubbe Thomas Melhuish Bonnie Ward
11.00 am Building recruitment and retention for the remote allied health workforce
Narelle Campbell
Birthing in the bush overseas: models that work
Rosie Downing
Co-located pharmacy improves patient engagement within an Aboriginal primary health care service
Hannah Mann, Terry Battalis
Shape Up For Life: peer-led lifestyle modification based on preventative self-management
Kate Warren
Preliminary findings in developing an e-health intervention for child conduct problems
Joshua Broderick
Supporting rural ageing well: how important is the rural?
Peter Orpin
Urban responses to Aboriginal visitors to Darwin
Louise Weber
Prevalence and type of partner abuse reported by metropolitan, regional and rural women
Gina Dillon
Panelist speakers:
Preparing rural health services for climate change
Rachael Purcell, Joe McGirr
Doors swing freely in Southern NSW Local Health District
Zoe Harris
Integrating and consolidating health promotion efforts in rural Victoria
Renata Spiller
Chronic disease, medications and lifestyle: perceptions from a regional Victorian Aboriginal community
Melissa Deacon-Crouch
11.25 am Increased self-efficacy is associated with rural career intent in Australian Rural Clinical School students: a FRAME sub-study
Vivian Isaac
Maternity services in remote Australia
Margaret Rolfe
Improving medication outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Lindy Swain
Healthy lifestyles: active community collaboration between council, health providers and consumers
Dianne Penberthy, Jane Newman
Lessons learnt from capacity building community projects in remote Central Australia
Karen Thomas
Mental health and wellbeing strategies through a new lens
Lynne Halliday
Development of regional dementia services pathways
Evan Stanyer
Refugee voices : healing refugee and asylum seeker trauma
Caz Coleman
Family violence—primary prevention: a community involvement approach
Nerrida Mitchell
Looking deadly! A systematic approach to improving eye care for Aboriginal Victorians
Susan Forrester
Encountering the lived experience of mental health undergraduate nursing/paramedic student responses
Judith Anderson, Kathryn Kent
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MONDAY 25 MAY 2015 11.50 am Factors that influence
Australian medical graduates’ preferences and rural workplace rotations
Marie Herd
Community breastfeeding mentoring workshops are an effective method to support breastfeeding
Melanie Carter
Doll making: yarning with Elders about motherhood
Loretta Weatherall
Improving quality use of medicines in the bush
Tobias Speare
Clinical pharmacists connecting with patients in rural and remote towns via telehealth
Michelle Rothwell
If we can do it, anyone can! Sharing success stories through media
Bethany Miles, Elleni Vassilakoglou
Cobweb of help to stick supports together for a holistic health journey
Kelly Foran
Adolescent early intervention services: better mental health for rural adolescents
Trevor Marshall
Achieving good health and wellbeing in rural Australia: perceptions of older men
Anna Tynan
The Imagine Me project. Awareness raising, skill-building, creative photographic project for people with disability in rural and regional Australia
Sue Murray
A rural community seeks possibilities in addressing youth homelessness
Janet Richards, Heidi Hodge
The role of health literacy in reducing health disparities in rural CaLD communities
Rhonda Garad, Lauren Waycott
Growing rural general practice through business support
Kelli Porter
Tasmanian Health Pathways—clinical leadership in action
Catherine Spiller
From Divisions to Medicare Locals to PHNs in Tasmania
Kim Boyer
Understanding eye care through the experiences of Aboriginal people in the NT
Aryati Yashadhana, Ruby Stanley
12.15 pm #Millennialsgorural
Greg Mundy
Are Queensland’s new GP obstetricians going where they are needed?
Ruth Stewart
Continuity of medication management from hospital discharge to primary care in Central Australia
Fran Vaughan
What oral health services do rural communities think they need?
Karen Carlisle
Youth migration and wellbeing in rural communities
Jacki Schirmer
Developing locally-specific ‘Wellbeing Models’ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with chronic disease
Maida Stewart, Margaret O’Brien
NT and Darwin by dance
Owen Allen, David McMicken
How do we engage them? How do we keep them engaged?
Cindy Hinterholzl
Lived experience of wellness: photovoice and learning conversations in an Aboriginal community
Dianne Boxall
12.35 pm Session concludes
12.30 pm – 1.10 pm
LUNCH including a performance in the Exhibition Hall by Kieran Wicks, www.shoutamate.com.au
Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
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MONDAY 25 MAY 2015 1.10 pm – 3.00 pm
PLENARY SESSION 3: SERVING THE PEOPLE OF RURAL AND REMOTE AUSTRALIA Auditorium
1.10 pm Performance: Sri Lankan Multicultural Dance Academy
1.20 pm MC—Serving the people of rural and remote Australia
1.30 pm Keynote 4: John Wakerman, Associate Dean, Flinders Northern Territory
Research excellence and policy development
1.50 pm Keynote 5: Bruce Bonyhady, Chair, National Disability Insurance Agency NDIS history, design, progress, adaptation, challenges and opportunities
2.10 pm Keynote 6: Mark Wenitong, Senior Medical Officer, Apunipima Cape York Health Council The rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health narrative
2.30 pm Discussion with the speakers and the audience
2.55 pm Which way to the Sharing Shed?
3.00 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND VIEWING OF POSTERS Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
3.25 pm Chimes
Note:
3.30 pm – 5.05 pm Supporting children’s health and wellbeing through creative environments
Bus tour to visit Child Australia Out of School Hours Care Service at Bagot Community (maximum 48)
or
4.05 pm – 5.00 pm Learn to swing dance with Quito Washington—Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
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MONDAY 25 MAY 2015 3.30 pm – 5.05 pm CONCURRENT SESSION B
Auditorium Waterfront 1 Waterfront 2 Waterfront 3 Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Neptuna/Mavie
Vibe Hotel Mauna Loa Vibe Hotel
B1 Medical education: the latest news
B2 Managing chronic conditions
B3 High performing services
B4 Mental health care
B5 Autism Spectrum Disorder
B6 Nurse Practitioners in the primary care team
B7 Professional support
B8 Rural youth and rural practice
B9 Men’s health Colloquium
B10 Empowering Indigenous Health Workers
Chair: Judi Walker Rob Curry John Wakerman Kathy Kirkpatrick Sylvia Rodger Tim Kelly Gordon Stacey Helen Conlin Greg Mundy Mark Wenitong
Scribe Joshua Mortimer
William Moorhead
Rajjit Ahluwalia
Danielle Lovell
Gabriela Kelly Jess Clelland Gordon Boot Jenna Mewburn Ellen O’Connor Loretta Weatherall
3.30 pm Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway: impacts on rural medical workforce
Tarun Sen Gupta
Reporting by location—measuring health needs in NT rural and remote communities
Penny Parker
A model of podiatry care in remote Central Australia
Sara Coombes
Lessons from the best to better the rest: quality improvement in Indigenous primary health care
Annette Panzera, Sarah Larkins
Models of Mental Health Services Rural Remote Areas program delivery across the Northern Territory
Tim Keane
Autism and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
Florence Williams, Yvonne O’Neill
Evolution of the nurse practitioner role at a rural health service
Wendy James, Mandy Morcom
3.30 pm – 4.15 pm
Take time for your super health: a superannuation workshop from HESTA
Bronwyn Barling
Growing up in the country—in their own words
Gregory Martin, Karen Paxton
Panelist speakers
The health behaviours and attitudes of working men
Megan Purvey
The health behaviours of rural SA men’s shed participants
Chloe Oosterbroek
Perceived barriers to health support seeking among rural men
Melissa Hull
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners and workers: strengthening professional skills through CPD
Lisa Crouch, Shelly Reynolds
3.55 pm Workplace based assessment pilot in General Practice for AMC Part 2 Certificate
John Togno
Sugar gums
Linda Cutler, Lyn Mayne
Community Ward: getting ahead of the game
Mark Ashcroft
Far West Mental Health Recovery Centre: a partnership model of recovery focused mental health inpatient care
Susan Daly, Sue Kirby
Overview of CRC research and education programs
Sylvia Rodger
Detecting and preventing cervical cancer: a nurse-led model for rural Aboriginal women
Elizabeth Barrett, Leonie Parker
Emerging issues in rural youth health: a practitioner’s perspective
Nigel Stewart
Symbiotic partnership to grow the health workforce in rural and remote Australia
Kristine Battye
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MONDAY 25 MAY 2015 4.20 pm Managing
expectations and being flexible for sustainable course delivery
Emma Kennedy
Integrated rural placements maximise medical student learning
Teresa O’Connor
Technological innovations in ARF/RHD: are we ready?
Christian James, Catherine Halkon
National Pain Strategy bringing pain services to the bush
Lesley Brydon
Getting patients to and from urgent afterhours care in the Grampians Region: the role local taxi providers can play
Meredith Johnson
A public-private partnership model for a rural physiotherapy service
Catherine Maloney
headspace-geospatial analysis of mental health service provision for Indigenous young adults
Sophie Alpen
Early intervention for children with an autism spectrum disorder: a rural hub-and-spokes model and the NDIS
Miranda Stephens
Nurse practitioner led services in primary health care—two case studies
Frances Barraclough
Agricultural sectors and primary school students find a common ground: building a resilient local food system in rural Tasmania
Stuart Auckland, Debbie Reid
Help-seeking and support after suicide and accidental death in farming communities
Alison Kennedy
Bringing prostate cancer education to rural and regional communities
Julie Sykes
Pulling people, places, pages and pathologies together through farm health
Bianca Todd
Mental health support via video
Randal Newton-John
Improving end-of-life care for Indigenous Australians: the role of PEPA
Michele Holloway
4.45 pm Scope of practice in rural Australia—horses for courses? Or a one-horse race?
Jenny May
Kelso Indigenous chronic disease clinic—your one-stop health clinic
Anne Vail, Jacqueline Gibbs
Improving outcomes in rural/remote communities through development of the gen Y workforce
Leigh Philpott
Medical-legal partnerships: connecting services for people living with mental health concerns
Chris Speldewinde
ASD diagnostic practices in Australia
Lauren Taylor
Challenging the status quo in rural health workforce roles: risks versus benefits
Tony Smith, Nola Ries
Diabetic retinopathy screening for Indigenous Australians in the Kimberley
Shelley Walters
Collaborative partnership to implement oral health care into primary health care
Margaret Dawson, Jo Leonard
5.05 pm Session concludes
7.00 pm for 7.30 pm
‘A TASTE OF THE TROPICS’ 13TH NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH CONFERENCE DINNER PROUDLY SPONSORED BY HESTA Dress: Darwin Tropical Rig
Music: The Kicks and The Kicks Soul Revue
Menus: Corrugated Iron Youth Arts
Exhibition Halls 3 & 4
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TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 7.15 am Student recovery breakfast Illido Restaurant
8.00 am Registration desk and exhibition hall open Foyer
10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Pop-up markets featuring crafters and artists selling their handmade creations in the breaks Foyer
8.30 am – 10.30 am
PLENARY SESSION 4: RURAL AND REMOTE AUSTRALIA—A GREAT PLACE TO BE Auditorium
8.30 am Still Belting Out! Senior Citizens Choir with Paolo Fabris
8.45 am MC—Great services for remote places
9.00 am Amanda Vanstone, Chair, Royal Flying Doctor Service Different places, different voices: same goal of better outcomes
9.10 am Kathy Burns, Artistic Director, Barkly Regional Arts Art for arts’ sake
9.20 am Lindsay Cane, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Far West Connecting places: a best-practice rural health service based in the city
9.30 am Alan Cass, Director, Menzies School of Health Research Research in remote Australia: doing work that really matters
9.40 am Bronte Martin, Nursing Director, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre AUSMAT: challenges and experiences in the development of an acute care disaster workforce
9.50 am Panel discussion with the audience
10.20 am The Sharing Shed: has it clicked yet?
10.30 am MORNING TEA AND VIEWING OF POSTERS Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
10.55 am Chimes
11.00 am –
12.00 pm Bush Tucker Talk and Tasting. What does ‘Bush Tucker’ really mean to Australian Indigenous people? Find out while listening to fascinating stories about Larrakia food from an expert in the Darwin region. Dried samples supplied.
Foyer Convention Centre
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TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 11.00 am – 12.35 pm CONCURRENT SESSION C
Auditorium Waterfront 1 Waterfront 2 Waterfront 3 Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Neptuna/Mavie
Vibe Hotel Mauna Loa Vibe Hotel
C1 Responding to natural disaster
C2 Overcoming some of the challenges of remoteness
C3 Children living with disability in remote areas
C4 Practical applications of TeleHealth
C5 Rural hospitals
C6 Sharing our Stories
C7 Arts and Health
C8 Sexual and reproductive health
C9 Closing the Gap
C10 Yarning with Shellie
Chair: Christine Tully Janet Fletcher Nicole O’Reilly John Humphreys Lyndon Seys Julianne Bryce Renita Glencross Pauline Glover Kylie Stothers Trish McKenzie
Scribe: Loran Towell
Judy Keith
Anna Elias
Leanne Nisbet
Shane Rosenzweig Marika Mychailuk Simeon Swain Danielle Lovell Rebecca Irwin Pheobe Gitsham
11.00 am Reducing the impact of cyclone, flood and storm related disasters in rural areas on non-communicable diseases through public health infrastructure resilience
Benjamin Ryan
The Remote Health Standards and Accreditation Program
Peter Frendin
Evolution of a remote paediatric disability program
Hannah Johnston, Claire Pilkington
Access early intervention: an eHealth solution to childhood behavioural disorders
Jessica Kirkman
A case study in transformation of a rural hospital: modelling, leadership and effecting change
Theodore Chamberlain, Nicole White
The Write Road to mental health and wellbeing—the power of story to shape confidence, courage, identity and destiny
Stephanie Dale
Art is not an add-on Korin Lesh Al Oldfield
Rural young people’s perspective of sexual health
Lisa Bourke
How one Aboriginal Medical Service is closing the gap—the power of data
Garry Hansford
Yarning session
Shellie Morris
11.25 am Changing and adapting: exploring an arts-health-environment interdisciplinary partnership
Christine Putland
The Western NSW Eye Health Partnership Program
Jane Hager
Comparing cerebral palsy in births to Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers
Emily O’Kearney
Participation of Indigenous children with disabilities in remote communities
Felicity Pidgeon
Equalising access to speech pathology services for country children: a telehealth approach
Richard Colbran
Building a medical workforce for your community: a success story
Peta Rutherford, Raymond Lewandowski
Frontier stories: nursing and midwifery politics, policy and practice over time
Robyn Aitken
Expressions—promoting wellbeing and social inclusion within a rural community through the arts
Lee Martinez
Seeking health information online among young, rural women: association with physical, mental and reproductive health
Ingrid Rowlands
Key lessons for closing the gap for vision
Mitchell Anjou
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TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 11.50 am Natural disasters and
women—we need to think about vulnerability differently
Karen Tully
CRANAplus Clinical Governance Guide: the right people in the right places
Geri Malone
Incidence, prevalence and challenges of managing CTEV in the Top End
Kelly Paterson, David Horman
Using telehealth with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in rural communities
Colleen Cartwright
Quality standards for emergency departments: a roadmap to excellence
Didier Palmer
Learning from final year nursing student stories of rural practice
Penny Paliadelis
Inspirational stories from rural and remote Aboriginal communities
Melissa Stoneham
Get the picture? Use of participant drawings in a novice’s qualitative research
Sally Josh
Technology to improve health indicators and reach young rural South Australians
Jill Davidson
The relevance of trauma informed care to Aboriginal primary health care services
Sarah Haythornthwaite, Tanja Hirvonen
Deadly choices, healthy lives: promoting health in rural and remote Indigenous communities
Rachel Yates, Glenn Clarke
12.15 pm Help is never far away: the role of Angel Flight
Marjorie Pagani
“We’re beside you”—tailored preparation to remote health practice
Fiona Wake
Physical activity of rural residing children with disabilities: perceptions of parents/carers
Jessica Langham
‘Rural in Reach’: delivering health and wellbeing services to regional Western Australia
Fiona Reid
The change to radiotherapy utilisation in a rural area after the establishment of a local service
Sally Butler
A physiotherapist led inpatient spirometry service in rural Victoria: a service review
Brooke Winzer
Too Much Hush Hush! Rural women tell their stories about access to abortion services
Frances Doran, Julie Hornibrook
Have cape, will travel
Ralph Hampson
“I’m here for my women’s check up”: health promotion in the context of cervical screening
Genevieve Dally
Our people, our places and unpredictability
Maree O’Hara, Danielle Withers
12.35 pm Session concludes
12.30 pm – 1.10 pm LUNCH Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
12.35 pm – 1.00 pm
Performance by Aly De Groot Stage, Exhibition Hall
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TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 1.10 pm – 3.40 pm
PLENARY SESSION 5: PLACES IN OUR REGION Auditorium
1.10 pm Performance by Melaleuca Refugee Centre Torture and Trauma Survivors Service of the NT
1.20 pm First pass of the Conference recommendations—with Lesley Fitzpatrick
1.35 pm Theme: Learning from each other about providing appropriate health services in resource-constrained environments Chair: Mike Toole, Burnet Institute
Update on the nutrition situation in the Asia-Pacific region
1.45 pm Keynote 7: Stevenson Kuartei, former Minister of Health, Palau, Head, Palau Health Foundation Sovereignty in health—towards a new paradigm in the Pacific
2.05 pm Keynote 8: Richard Leona, Medical Superintendent, Port Vila Hospital, Vanuatu When disaster strikes: the health impacts of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu
2.25 pm Keynote 9: Peter Macdonald, Australian Doctors International Treating the patient is only half the solution: seeking sustainable solutions. Australian Doctors International in Papua New Guinea
2.45 pm Keynote 10: Clement Malau, Divine Word University, Madang Service delivery to all—translating global health to local action
3.05 pm Keynote 11: Tony Hobbs, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia Overcoming medicine shortages, adverse events and clinical variation
3.25 pm Discussion
3.40 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND VIEWING OF POSTERS Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
4.05 pm Chimes
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TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 4.10 pm – 5.45 pm CONCURRENT SESSION D
Auditorium Waterfront 1 Waterfront 2 Waterfront 3 Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Neptuna/Mavie
Room Vibe Hotel Mauna Loa Vibe Hotel
D1 INTERNATIONAL Primary care on the frontline
D2 INTERNATIONAL Emerging threat of infectious diseases
D3 Self-care and harm reduction
D4 Health training that works
D5 Specialised care
D6 Preparing the workforce
D7 Potent means; potent messages—youth, theatre, film
D8 Smarter, safer homes
D9 INTERNATIONAL Under- and over-nutrition in the Pacific
D10 Localising rural health research
Chair: Lachlan McIver Bart Currie Beverly Scott-Visser Tanya Lehmann Russell Young Geri Malone Peter Scrivener John Dennehy Mike Toole Lesley Barclay
Scribe: Jarrad Lenegan
Lauren Thomas
Louise Manning
David Khoo
Fleur Muirhead Melissa Hull Ann-Marie Baker Cheryl Piercey Sarah Downes Nicholas Wilson
4.10 pm An overview of primary health care needs and opportunities in the Pacific
Lachlan McIver
Remote opportunities for clinical knowledge, education, training and support for health In primary care—the ROCKET+SHIP project
Bonnie Ward
Developing a rural generalist medical training program in Japan
Manabu Saito
Emerging infectious diseases; Australia is not an island
Bart Currie
Facilitating improvements in the work–life balance of Directors of Nursing
Judith Brown
Illicit use of fentanyl patches in rural Australia: challenges of harm reduction
Julaine Allan
Multidisciplinary rural training hubs—partnerships for sustainable rural training
Rod Omond
Dying at home is a choice
Fiona Onslow
Keeping up with the Joneses while at home with the Smiths
Janelle Amos
Youth arts and mental health: exploring connections in the Top End
Jane Tonkin, Gretchen Ennis
Rural telehomecare helping chronic disease and an ageing population
Shannon Nott
Update on the nutrition situation in the Asia–Pacific region
Mike Toole
Aboriginal community researchers: promoting meaningful research outcomes in remote Aboriginal communities
Tammy Abbott, Lena Taylor
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TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 4.35 pm A day in the life of a
Health Extension Officer
Dashlyn Chee
Responses to the drug-resistant TB epidemic in Asia–Pacific Region
Suman Majumdar
Monitoring the use of alcohol and other drugs in rural Australia
Jennifer Johnston
Speaking easy for living and learning: school-based service-learning for speech pathology students
Pascale Dettwiller, Trish Maroney
Specialist training in rural—does setting impact on quality of training?
Donna Fahie
Planning integrated outreach: service patterns from the metropolitan and rural hubs
Belinda O’Sullivan
Preparation for health professional students practice in rural and remote primary health care settings
Robyn Williams
Power of Story 1
Health promotion films produced by school-based youth in remote Top End and Central Australian communities
Red Dust Role Models
Online physiotherapy delivered using video games
Janet Eyre
Sovereignty in health—towards a new paradigm in the Pacific
Stevenson Kuartei
Our journey preparing a protocol to collect Aboriginal people’s stories of diabetes care
Dubbo Aboriginal Research Team
5.00 pm Mending the road behind and building the road ahead—the journey of a rural generalist in Papua New Guinea
David Mills
Challenges of TB control in Papua New Guinea
Lucy John
What works with an Indigenous workforce: an evaluation of the remote AOD workforce
Diane Mayers, Asman Rory
Challenging conversations for clinicians
Rodney Peadon
Keeping kids safe during resuscitation
Simon Craig
Rural multidisciplinary sub-acute collaborative care. What matters most?
Tracey Drabsch
Agricultural health and medicine education: promoting people, places and possibilities across disciplines
Susan Brumby
Power of Story 2
Tin Town Trackers
Desert Pea Media and Western NSW Medicare Local
In Focus: Aboriginal men’s Groups
Wandarma Drug and Alcohol Service
Smarter safer homes for older Australians: providing feasible, virtual in-home care
Leanne Nisbet
The emerging double burden of malnutrition in Timor-Leste—a time to act
Heather Grieve
Outcomes of a population health program at Orange Aboriginal Medical Service
Kristy Payne, Ekala French
Rural research capacity building: a five-year case study
Angelo D’Amore
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TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 5.25 pm Challenges of
postgraduate medical education in Timor-Leste and the Family Medicine Program
Antony Chenhall
Emerging infections and paediatric emergencies in Timor-Leste
Josh Francis
A rural AOD pharmacotherapy model
Glenda Stanislaw, Rodger Brough
Online resource to empower Indigenous communities to reduce harmful substance use
Avinna Trzesinski
Innovative professional development for primary care nurses—a rural paradigm
Marnie Connolly
ANZAHPE … highlighting possibilities for rural health professional educators
Jill Romeo
How can metropolitan rehabilitation services best support remote area people with an ABI?
Kristylee Sharp
Growing an optometry workforce for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Genevieve Napper, Michelle Pollard
An engaged approach to workforce planning for a diverse, geographically dispersed workforce
Carmel Marshall, Stacy Field
Power of Story 3
Invisible discriminator
beyondblue
Who we are in Charleville
Charleville State School
Telehealth to the home
Angela Morgan
A new model of clinical placement in the Solomon Islands
Janie Smith
Streamlining chronic disease management in the Torres Strait
Alfred Liu
Assessing measurement tools of health and wellbeing for evaluating a community intervention
Mithilesh Dronavalli
5.45 pm Session concludes
6.00 pm –
6.45 pm Recommendations roundtable—with Lesley Fitzpatrick Recommendations Room
5.45 pm – 6.45 pm
EXHIBITOR EVENING with Grey Panthers and Friends
Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
7.00 pm Theatre performance: Gift of Life, presented by Artback NT Ella Watson Russell, actor Darren Edwards, actor
Followed by Q and A with Lee Wood, Program and Policy Director and Danielle McGuire, Donation Specialist Nurse Co-Ordinator, DonateLife NT
Auditorium
8.00 pm Session close
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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015 6.30 am Morning activities (meet outside The Coffee Club on the Waterfront)
Heart Foundation Walking—start your day with a 30-minute walk with Janelle Northcott from Heart Foundation NT Walking Group (she’ll be wearing the red and white shirt!)
Tai Chi—with Kevin Walle
8.00 am Registration desk open Foyer
8.00 am Exhibition open, posters on display Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
8.00 am – 10.30 am
PLENARY SESSION 6: THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS Auditorium
8.00 am Recommendations on screen
8.05 am Performance by Chandran, Nick Blackwell and Shankar Kasynathan
8.20 am Facilitated discussion of recommendations—with Lesley Fitzpatrick
8.42 am Publication of Media Release from Conference about Reconciliation Week
8.45 am MC: New approaches to demography; technology; health service systems and physical activity
8.55 am Keynote 12: Julian Disney, Director, Social Justice Project, University of NSW; Former Chair, Australian Press Council; Chair, Anti-Poverty Week The big smoke and distorting mirrors
9.15 am Keynote 13: Bronwyn Pike, Community Care Lead, Telstra Health New opportunities through technology
9.35 am Keynote 14: Ian Wronski, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University The future for health workforce in rural Australia
9.55 am Discussion
Note: the revised set of recommendations will be on screen in the Auditorium after this discussion session
10.30 am MORNING TEA AND VIEWING OF POSTERS Presentation by Phil Barwick, North and West Remote health—including draw of NWRH’s exhibitor prize, 13
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Exhibition Halls 1 & 2
10.55 am Chimes
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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015 11.00 am – 12.35 pm CONCURRENT SESSION E
Auditorium Waterfront 1 Waterfront 2 Waterfront 3 Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Neptuna/Mavie
Adina/Vibe Mauna Loa Adina/Vibe
E1 Mental health: the big picture
E2 Big data, big issues
E3 Overcoming workforce shortages
E4 Heart health
E5 Deadly choices
E6 Possibilities of remote practice
E7 Arts and Health
E8 Food deserts or just desserts
E9 Broadband for the bush—for health
E10 Yarning with Shellie
Chair: Judith Gullifer Gordon Stacey Bruce Simmons Lindy Swain Beverly Scott-Visser Martin Laverty Peter Brown Jo McCubbin Ray Heffernan Lauren Gale
Scribe: Jorja Hutton
Ruth McLeod
Emily Mcleod
Khadijah Nadeem
Sophie Alpen Rikki Gee Claire Chandler Thomas Melhuish Leigh Moore
11.00 am Latest news from the Australasian Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health
Jennifer Bowers
The geography of wellbeing across four longitudinal surveys
David Dennis
Occupational and spatial mobility of rural physiotherapists: insights for workforce development
Adrian Schoo
Improving Aboriginal heart health in Western Australia: bringing everyone on the journey
Emma Haynes
Tackling Indigenous smoking in rural and remote Australia: progress and possibilities
Lucas de Toca
Practising ethically as a rural psychologist
Louise Roufeil
Reading the signs: a collaborative theatre piece dealing with the day-to-day difficulties of communication faced by people living with a disability
CemeNT Stars: Tania Lieman, Alex McInnes, Bong Ramilo
What prevents or facilitates fruit/vegetable intake among rural west Australian children?
Stephanie Godrich
The Broadband for the Bush Alliance: unlocking the digital potential of the bush
Apolline Kohen, Ray Heffernan
Yarning session
Shellie Morris
11.25 am Experiences of mental illness and service response in North Queensland and the Northern Territory
A conversation between Alison Fairleigh and Janet Fletcher
Using the ABS Patient Experience Survey to inform on rural health care
Lauren Ford
City to bush: health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Charmaine McGowan
Doctors in remote Queensland: they don’t stay, do they?
Chris Mitchell
Heart Foundation Walking—a series of rural case studies
Kyle Schofield
A settings approach: Healthy @ Work-a model of a health promoting workplace
Kate Robertson
Adapting service delivery to reflect updated smoking cessation guidelines in remote settings
Lis Young, Aimee Riley
Road Safety All Stars—rocking a community message near you
Vanessa Hutchins
Getting the message right: making the social determinants of health matter in the Northern Territory
Breanna Ellis
Trachoma arts based health promotion brings hygiene to life in remote communities
Fiona Lange
Roundtable: discussion on the National Framework for Arts and Health
Maz McGann
Fit4YAMs-2: health-related text messages preferences of overweight rural young adult males
Jannine Bailey
Are retinal cameras essential for remote health clinics?
Luke Arkapaw
Rural connections, possibilities through telepractice
Rachel Brindal
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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015 11.50 am Building an allied
health workforce in mental health
Carol McKinstry
Getting research evidence into rural health policies: What does it take?
Lisa Lavey
Important new empirical evidence to guide rural health workforce retention policies
Deborah Russell
Outcomes following cardiac arrest in remote areas of the Northern Territory
Colin Urquhart
The impact of inter-hospital transfers in acute coronary syndrome, in Perth WA
Rene Forsyth
Stronger eye care systems in Aboriginal primary health care
Anna Morse
Enhancing child health systems in the Northern Territory to improve anaemia outcomes
Heather Ferguson
Roundtable discussion (cont)
Improving nutrition and providing jobs in remote Indigenous communities
Graham Bidstrup, Dimity Pond
Hunter New England clinical telehealth: removing the distance between patient and clinician
Ashley Young
12.15 pm The FIVE project—addressing the stigma of mental health through community arts engagement
Andrea Lewis, David Doyle
Recruiting participants in the 21st century: Australian longitudinal study on women’s health
Deborah Loxton
Forward to Fellowship—a response to Lost in the Labyrinth
Vivienne Duggin
Rheumatic heart disease in Australia—a Dickinsonian disease still prevalent in the Top End
Claire Boardman
Assessment of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in visitors to rural field day events
Margaret Kuhne
#IHMayDay: showcasing Indigenous knowledge and innovation
Lynore Geia
Outback Intern Pharmacist Training Program: a future in rural and remote practice
Selina Taylor
The impact of significant employment changes in a remote NT mining community: the GP’s perspective
Sarah Chalmers
Implementing a healthy food policy at an Indigenous community festival: a case study
Angela Kelly
Nutritionists where there is no nutrition
Richard Sager
Engaging and empowering clinicians to provide a sustainable telehealth service
Lisa Deeth
12.35 pm Session concludes
12.35 pm –
1.15 pm LUNCH Exhibition Halls 1&2
12.35 pm –1.00 pm
Final recommendations roundtable Recommendations Room
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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015 1.15 pm – 4.00 pm
FINAL PLENARY SESSION Auditorium
1.15 pm Performance by African Gospel Singers, Melaleuca Refugee Centre Torture and Trauma Survivors Service of the NT
1.30 pm Auction by Danny Cummins, auctioneer, shearer, wool classer, Taralga, NSW
Stewart Roper photograph
Luke Arkapaw photograph
Miriam Rose painting
1.40 pm Presentation of priority recommendations Lesley Fitzpatrick, Convenor, Recommendations group
2.00 pm Keynote 15: John Paterson, Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory The impact of current funding policies on the provision of Aboriginal primary health care.
2.15 pm Keynote 16: Jacki Schirmer, Senior Research Fellow, University of Canberra Creating healthy rural places
2.35 pm Jen and Joyce’s Feast of Stories, including Evaluation and announcement of winners of the Friends Photo and Poetry Competitions
2.40 pm Stephen Jones, Shadow Assistant Federal Minister for Health Labor’s approach to regional and remote health
2.55 pm Hon Tony Abbott, Prime Minister Closing video message
3.00 pm Keynote 17: Kylie Stothers, Jawoyn woman, mother-daughter-wife, social worker, teacher (CRH, Katherine, NT) Living where I like—and loving where I live
3.15 pm Tim Kelly, Chairperson, National Rural Health Alliance A joint commitment to our future
3.25 pm Charlie King, MC Keep safe, Go well
3.30 pm Video: A world of possibilities
Followed by a farewell from the Kailani Dancers
3.40 pm FAREWELL AFTERNOON TEA Foyer
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POSTERS Poster authors will be available for questions from delegates during the breaks and the Exhibitors’ Evening at 5.45 pm on Tuesday 26 May 2015
Bachelor of Midwifery (Indigenous) Away from Base Enhancement Program
Gail Baker
TeleDentistry for residential aged care facilities in Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service
Carolyn Bourke, Shane Stenhouse
Conversion by immersion: outcomes of short- and long-term rural allied health placements
Leanne Brown
Spreading epilepsy services across Australia going online
Jane Burford
Promoting safety and supporting culturally valued infant care: the Pepi-pod Program
Leanne Craigie
Embracing youth … GPs and PNs the key to driving down STIs
Melissa Cromarty, Nerida Walker
Resilience, compassion satisfaction, and the professional practice environment for rural nurses
Karen Francis
A one-stop assessment to measure key health indicators in rural South Australia
Anna Elias
Men’s health training for rural primary health care nurses
Carol Holden
The Stayin on Track project—supporting young Aboriginal fathers through a user-developed website
David Perkins
AHAs in care coordination—people, places and possibilities
Annalee Gardam, Samantha Coonan
Increasing engagement in exercise physiology-physiotherapy for Indigenous people living in remote communities
Bridie Groenen, Kia Naylor
Health students eager for multidisciplinary teamwork opportunities
Rebecca Irwin
Making after hours primary care sustainable in the Grampians region
Deidre Rennick
Building evidence-based practice capacity: a journal club for nursing and midwifery student
David Lindsay
Three initiatives promoting safety and quality in rural and remote practice
Peter McCormack
A systematic review of the health and wellbeing outcomes of mining communities in high-income countries
Fiona Mactaggart
Descriptive analysis of the delays in management of cancer In rural Australia
Shaad Manchanda
Using simulation in teaching interprofessional team skills to undergraduate rural health students
Rebecca Marley, Tony Smith
Off the beaten track: characteristics of rural Australian families accessing a mental health intervention
Antonio Mendoza Diaz
Student Clinical Placement Accommodation Website Portal—a collaborative stress-free approach for students
Jacqui Michalski
Bonded medical schemes: health student views
National Rural Health Students’ Network
Cogs of possibilities: streamlining individual choices and increasing self-responsibility
Amanda Norton
Remote Allied Health Practice—perspectives from Australia, Canada and the United States of America
Felicity Pidgeon
Preparing for and maintaining competency in a career in rural and remote health
John Setchell
Dial ‘T’ for trepidation: junior doctors early encounters with telehealth in the emergency department
Christopher Stubbe
Rural Transfer Project
Meaghan Trovato
Rural communities experiencing climate change: a systems approach to adaptation
Glenda Verrinder, Lyn Talbot
Bringing breast screening services to the remote Northern Territory
Louise Croft, Noeleen Howe
Traverse the barriers in paediatric emergency care: a model to support rural GPs
Michael Zhang
Social determinants of health: opportunities for youth through education and social support
Nelson Berko
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