On Friday 23 June Nyngan was host to the launch of the National Rural Health Alliance’s Independent Report on health spending for rural Australians.
The Report provides startling new evidence of rural health shortfall, with each person in rural NSW missing out on close to $850 a year of healthcare access totalling a hefty $6.5 billion a year.
A sombre read by any standards, the report looks at all ages and geographical positionings, along with Indigenous, disability, aged and children subgroups and the affects the lack of cohesive health care is having on these communities.
The latest data, revealed in an independent Nous Group report commissioned by the National Rural Health Alliance (the Alliance), reflects the urgency for a National Rural Health Strategy to bring all rural health initiatives under one umbrella…