Operational Guide & Service Criteria  RPHS Aims and Objectives 

More Allied Health Services Program (MAHS) was established in 2001 to help rural communities gain better access to allied health services. MAHS provides allied health services to rural populations living within Rural, Remote, Metropolitan Areas (RRMA 4-7).

Rural Health Professionals Roles & Responsibilities

The aim of RHPS is to: improve the health of people living in rural areas through access to allied healthcare and by improving local linkages, between allied health care and general practice. MAHS aims to increase the number and range of allied health services delivered in rural communities The objectives of MAHS are to:

1. Improve the health care of key groups within a rural community through the provision of efficient and effective allied health services which have been selected on the basis of the identified needs of the community.

2. Provide additional professional allied health services to rural communities in response to the identified needs of the community.

3. Facilitate an integrated approach to health care provision by allied health care professionals and general practitioners working together to meet the care needs of patients, and by the Division linking the MAHS Program with other State/Australian Government funded health initiatives and services.

Allied health professionals will provide clinical services on an individual or group basis (this will be the main work load).

Allied health assessment/intervention will be initiated on receipt of general practitioner referral.

Allied health services should be provided free of charge.

Occasional community primary prevention/health promotion is provided in line with Program objectives and as discussed and agreed with the Division.

Rural Health Providers

Diabetes Educators

Ashma Educator

Dietician

Podiatrist

Speech Pathologist

Aboriginal Health Liaison Officer