"Many Paddocks, One Herd"

The conference provided a forum for the rural and remote allied health workforce, bureaucrats, educators and consumers to:

• Present on innovative local solutions to issues that can be applied to address similar issues nationally and across disciplines
• Have input and influence from the ‘grassroots' into national and state health policy and service delivery.
• Demonstrate rural and remote allied health leadership in workforce and service delivery innovation;
• Promote continuing education and professional development activities essential to support allied health professional practice in rural and remote Australia.
• Promote rural and remote allied health research by professionals who practice in these areas and the presentation of research findings.
• Develop supportive networks.
• Promote good health and wellbeing through the delivery of allied health services to and by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in rural communities

Who attended

Members of the rural and remote allied health and oral health workforce and managers of these services; allied health and oral health students preparing for a future rural health career; workforce planners, developers and funders of health policy and programs relating to rural and remote allied health and oral health services, educators of allied health and oral health professionals and consumers of these services who are interested in the dynamic developments in allied health and oral health services. 

The allied health and oral health workforce includes, but is not limited to: Aboriginal Health Workers, Audiology; Dentistry, Dental Therapists and Hygienists, Nutrition & Dietetics; Medical Radiation Science (Medical Imaging, Therapeutic Radiography, Nuclear Medicine); Occupational Therapy; Optometry; Orthoptics; Orthotics and Prosthetics; Pharmacy; Physiotherapy; Podiatry; Psychology; Social Work, Speech Pathology and Allied Health Assistants.

The 2008 National SARRAH Conference was supported by financial assistance from the:

                      SARRAH would like to thank the sponsors for their support of this event.

“Many paddocks – One Herd”