A landmark bipartisan pledge to invest in Medicare aims to ensure nine in 10 visits to the doctor will be free within the decade, with a bigger boost for rural doctors.
Mental Health
Posted inArmidale, Mental Health
Free support service for parents struggling with perinatal mental health officially opens in Armidale
As the first of its kind in New England, parents can now access GP-referred, free specialist perinatal counselling sessions in Armidale.
Posted inMental Health, NSW Politics
Mental Health patients abandoned as psychiatrists quit
The NSW Government is being accused of abandoning mental health patients by failing to meet pay demands to retain psychiatrists.
Posted inGunnedah, Health, Investigation, Mental Health, Parenting and kids
The mother of all pain points
Maternity care across the region is probably the most affected by widespread staff shortages, with too many New England mums not able to give birth where they live.
Posted inAgriculture, General News, Mental Health
Goondiwindi psychologist goes in search of new age Aussie farmers
Researchers are looking into whether psychology can help improve workplace practices on Australia’s cotton farms, in a bid to better attract and retain workers.
Posted inAwareness Events, Mental Health, Tamworth
Tamworth hosts second annual Green Market for National Headspace day
Tamworth’s Fitzroy Plaza was turned green this week as the community gathers to pause, reflect and connect for National Headspace Day.
Posted inAgriculture, Mental Health, Science and Research
UNE wants to know how to support farmers on the frontline of extreme weather events
Volatile weather around the globe sees Australia experiencing extreme events at an unprecedented rate, and UNE researchers have launched a new survey to find out how it’s affecting farmers.
Posted inAgriculture, Mental Health, New England Today
What does Landcare have to do with your Mental Health?
Meet SNE Landcare’s Elizabeth Rosser, who says that in helping people, we are helping the land… because without the people we can’t do the land care.
Posted inAwareness Events, Mental Health
R U OK? (Any) Day
Today, on their National Day of Action, R U OK? are calling on all Australians to ask R U OK? Any Day because life happens every day. Thousands of community […]