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National Rural Health Conference 24-27 May 2015, Darwin Convention Centre, NT www.ruralhealth.org.au/13nrhc #ruralhealthconf

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

http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/13nrhc/preconference

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National Rural Health Conference 24-27 May 2015, Darwin Convention Centre, NT 2 www.ruralhealth.org.au/13nrhc #ruralhealthconf

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


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


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


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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



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


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


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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



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


12.30 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


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


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


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

th Conference exhibition incentive draw and Friends’ hamper


10.55 am Chimes

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015 11.00 am – 12.35 pm CONCURRENT SESSION E


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

Tom Calma

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 – 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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