Hi Dan, interesting question!

My clinical experience has been rurally the distance to travel makes access so much harder. Both for patients to get to appointment or support groups and also for community workers to get to their patients it takes so much longer. Thinking from a leadership perspective smaller hospitals that are spread out makes…Read more

Hi Dan – really interested in your question. I’ve been an ops lead in a rural setting for physio and podiatry, and had great difficulty in implementing innovations (for example Escape Pain, a NICE recommended intervention for osteoarthritis) in a rural setting. I began working with the Health Innovation South West in 2019, but innovations are…Read more

Hi Dan
The National AHP workforce training and education team (WTE) have funded a team led by Sophie Willis at Lincoln Uni to do a piece of work on AHPs and rural and coastal communities. Bev Harden is also doing a Churchill Fellowship on rural and coastal communities If there is interest in the rural and coastal topic happy to see if we can set…Read more