Publisher:
Scottish Rural Action
Alternative Published Date
2024
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Type of Resource:
Report
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
4pp
Fast Facts
There is wide diversity of rural inequality across the social and health care spectrum.
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National Centre for Remote and Rural Health and Care (NCRRHC) has a potential role in addressing some of the operational challenges in the delivery of rural health and care, especially around workforce recruitment and development. There is a necessity of rooting the NCRRHC in rural and island communities rather than being an exclusively digital institution with a base in an urban centre. But it will not be in a position to take on a national support role for rural patient advocacy groups, something which is particularly needed given the entrenched institutional root causes of the health inequalities.
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