Media Releases

The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) is set to commence in October 2022, and aims to support residential aged care providers to boost the quantum of care delivered daily to resident to meet a new standard of 200 minutes per resident per day. While this includes a minimum 40 minutes per day with a registered nurse, no such benchmarks have been set for allied health services. Click here to read full media release.

SARRAH calls on all politicians and aspirants to prioritise access to the ‘universal health care’ we pride ourselves on but too many can’t get. Rural communities need GPs, but they also need all the other services that keep them out of hospital, well and independent.   How universal is a health system that delivers worse health outcomes for people in rural and remote Australia year after year? People have different and complex health needs, they deserve a fit-for-purpose multidisciplinary health workforce, skilled in providing team-based care.  This is what we need from Governments, whoever they are. Allied health workforce and service shortages impact people living in rural and remote Australia adversely every day. Addressing them should be an urgent priority.  Health should be among the highest priorities for candidates in the coming Federal election. How much do they know about access to the services people need?  Click here to read full media release.

Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH), the peak body for allied health professionals working in rural and remote Australia, is proud to acknowledge the amazing efforts and contribution our members and their allied health colleagues make in improving the lives of many millions of Australians every year. Please read here the full Press Release. 

 Attract, Connect, Stay is a two-year project funded by the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) and auspiced by Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) - the peak body representing rural and remote allied health professionals.

The Commonwealth Government’s announcement of $9.6 million over three years to improve access to allied health services is a win for regional, rural and remote communities.

SARRAH applauds the announcement today by Minister for Regional Health, the Hon Mark Coulton MP, that the Office of the Rural Health Commissioner is to be extended and the Commissioner will be supported by Deputy Commissioners with expertise in Indigenous health, nursing and allied health. 

On Friday 28 February 2020 the Hon. Mark Coulton MP, Minister for Regional Health, attended the SARRAH Summit to launch the Australian Allied Health Leadership Forum's position statement on Allied Health Rural Generalism.

In the last week Australia’s parliamentarians showed real leadership. They did it by acknowledging the limited success governments had achieved and by recognising that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must be engaged and share authority to overcome Australia’s most enduring inequality.

Reducing stigma around mental health was a welcome focus for the Media Release from Minister for Health, Greg Hunt yesterday.  One in five of us will deal with a mental health issue in any year.