Physiotherapist and researcher Carl Francia joined the Deadly Heart Trek in the quest to raise awareness and prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from developing rheumatic heart disease. 

Packing in your day job and hitting the open road for a life of travel, sunshine and surfing sounds like a dream to many. Clare Austin and David Dimech have taken that one step further and turned their dream into a working holiday and the creation of a successful business model to help clients in rural and remote areas of Australia.

Chronic staff shortages and high turnover within the rural allied health workforce require targeted and discipline-specific support, writes Ellen McMaster.

Fly2 Health Group is an allied health service based in Perth, which regularly flies physiotherapists and other allied health clinicians out to rural and remote towns and communities in Western Australia. We talk here to founder and pilot Kennedy Lay about flying and physiotherapy.

Chronic staff shortages and high turnover within the rural allied health workforce require targeted and discipline-specific support, writes Ellen McMaster.

In this second part of a two-part series on mentoring, we speak with the national chair of the Rural Advisory Committee, Ellen McMaster, about some of the challenges of and opportunities for mentoring in the rural setting. 

A conversation with a physiotherapist in Lismore about what the physio community can do to help people affected by the floods in the Northern Rivers region.

Robert Martinez has been providing services to rural and remote communities in country New South Wales for more than five years. Here, Robert shares the many challenges that remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities—and the practitioners who service them—face.

Acknowledging the challenges faced by health practices and physiotherapy professionals in rural areas is the key to providing useful strategies in confronting the staff retention rates in these communities.