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Let's hope there’s truth in the talk of a funding reprieve for the rural health body Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa NZ (RHAANZ).

The Rural Health Alliance (RHAANZ) seems promised a reprieve, and is now looking at restructuring rather than ‘hibernation’.

New Zealand’s umbrella rural health organisation will move to shut down if it does not receive government funding next week.

Sorting health issues will help improve the safety of rural communities, says Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand chief executive Michelle Thompson. 

Stresses on rural people may have increased due to the cumulative effect of various pressures over the last few years in farming.

Workforce shortages in the rural health sector – now and into the future –are “quite scary”, says Rural Health Alliance (RHAANZ) chief executive Michelle Thompson.

Any initiative that helps train health professionals ready and willing to work in rural communities is good, says Michelle Thompson, chief executive of Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ).

Rural health will be a new feature of this year’s Fieldays.

Rural New Zealanders’ lives are at risk every day because of poor cellphone and internet connectivity and inequitable health services.