RAHC celebrates 1000th health professional placement in a remote NT Indigenous community
The Remote Area Health Corps (RAHC) has now filled over 1,000 short-term health professional placements into remote Indigenous communities across the Northern Territory (NT) since beginning operations less than 3 years ago.
RAHC was established to recruit urban-based health professionals, including general practitioners, registered nurses, midwives, dental and allied health professionals to provide primary health care on short-term paid assignments in remote Indigenous health centres in the NT. RAHC health professionals have been providing significant support to the hard working permanent staff in the remote health centres as well as expanding the health workforce in remote Indigenous communities throughout the NT.
RAHC has today celebrated this important milestone with RAHC health professionals, stakeholders and staff gathering at a morning tea in Darwin and also via video link with our team and supporters in Alice Springs.
The Hon Warren Snowdon MP, Member for Lingiari and Minister for Indigenous Health says, “I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to the entire RAHC team for reaching the 1000th placement milestone.”
“As the Member for Lingiari, it is wonderful that these 1000 health provider placements have been for the benefit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote Northern Territory communities. Since beginning operations in 2008, RAHC has helped ensure remote Aboriginal communities have access to doctors, nurses and allied health providers.”
RAHC supports health professionals throughout their placements, beginning with high quality pre-deployment cultural and clinical orientation programs, through to the in-situ support RAHC staff provide to each health professional while they are in a remote community.
RAHC has also launched a free online Oral Health training module to better prepare dental health professionals providing care in remote Indigenous communities.
The new Oral Health module, part of the ‘RAHC Introduction to Remote Health Practice (Online) Program’, is the newest addition to the suite of online clinical modules that are freely available to the public via www.rahc.com.au The modules cover a wide range of clinical areas designed especially for health professionals working in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.
The Department of Health (DoH) Oral Health Services have collaborated with RAHC to develop the Oral Health module.
