Seeing the Whole Person to Strengthen Rural Care, Workforce and Community Outcomes
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``` ```The Workshop
This 60-minute interactive workshop is built around real-world rural clinical scenarios. In small groups, participants work through structured discussion prompts that challenge them to think beyond the referral: to map what actually exists in their communities, identify unmet needs, and identify one concrete next step.
The workshop reflects a core belief shared by all three facilitators: rural practitioners already hold deep knowledge of their communities. What's needed is shared language, structured approaches, and the confidence to look beyond the referral.
Elderly woman · Regional town · Living alone. The medical plan is sound. But she's getting worse.
Middle-aged man · Farming community · Alcohol dependency. He came in for a script. He needs something else.
Child with autism · Rural school · Family under pressure. No specialist for 200km. Funding not yet in place. A family at breaking point.
Your Facilitators
Physiotherapist, researcher, and founder of unplex and UNPLEXi. Twenty-four years across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK working at the intersection of workforce reform, service redesign, and implementation science. Her needs intelligence platform makes the full picture of a person's health and social care needs visible so that organisations can plan care around the person.
Rural GP and founder of Rural Health Compass, whose work centres on rural health equity and the intersection of health systems and policy. Through her podcast The Rural Road to Health and her work with Rural Seeds, EURIPA and Rural WONCA, she has been a consistent international voice for rural health, creating pathways for colleagues building meaningful rural careers.
Working at the intersection of rural health equity and workforce sustainability in Aotearoa New Zealand. With roots in social work and a doctorate focused on Allied Health recruitment and retention, her time as Director of Allied Health for Te Tai o Poutini West Coast shaped her understanding that rural communities need health professionals who feel valued, connected, and professionally fulfilled.
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