north east regional extra | March 13 - 19, 2019
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March 13 - 19, 2019
Healthy passion to study abroad
By KYLIE WILSON
WANGARATTA-based Dr Cath Cosgrave is determined to investigate ways that those in the rural health sector can retain staff in the long term. And she’ll be jetting off to Canada this May to help her cause, thanks to a Churchill Fellowship awarded by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. An academic at the Department of Rural Health at Melbourne University in Wangaratta, Dr Cosgrave has long investigated this particular field. “Australians in rural and remote areas have poorer health outcomes than people in metropolitan areas, and severe workforce shortages are a major contributor – particularly when it comes to nurses and allied health workers,” she said. “Retaining experienced and skilled health professionals to work and live in rural areas is a global issue, and it’s a really under-researched issue.” The Goorambat resident said she had been aware of the Churchill Fellowship award for some time, and decided to put her application in after attending an information session in Albury-Wodonga last year and being inspired by past fellows from the North East, including Cathy McGowan (MHR, Indi). Dr Cosgrave said she is looking forward to going to Canada and finding out more about their staff retention strategies from a country with a similar health system and comparable geographical challenges.
◆ RESEARCH: Cath Cosgrave will soon be heading to Canada as part of a Churchill Fellowship to gather further insight into retaining health industry staff in rural areas. PHOTO: Kylie Wilson
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GARDEN HINTS
PET CARE
WINE TALK
TECH & SCIENCE
with MANDI
with CHANCE
with ANITA
with CHRIS
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