Last week mayors from across regional NSW met for the Country Mayors’ Association of NSW inaugural Rural and Regional Health Forum, joined by health leaders and politicians to discuss the health issues that communities are facing.
While the challenges and letdowns of health services in the bush are well documented, Lachlan Shire Council Mayor John Medcalf said that councils are beginning to take matters into their own hands.
“As mayor, I’ve been more involved in health than I ever have before. We haven’t got much to do with health but we can do a lot of advocating and we are doing just that this year,” Cr Medcalf said.
“We’re thinking about communities and we just need to get another way to entice staff to come out to this part of the world.”…