26/11/2025 - RSN Seminar: Rural Health and Care

You can download the agenda for the day here

The Speaker Presentations can be downloaded below:

Kerry Booth, Chief Executive of the Rural Services Network "Welcome & Introduction to the topic of Rural Health and Care" (Download presentation here)

Rebecca Payne GP, Churchill Fellow, The Churchill Fellowship "You Can Add Tech, But You Can’t Replace People: Lessons from Rural Healthcare in Australia and Alaska" (Download presentation here)

Dr Edward Pemberton, Senior Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice "Housing, work and health inequalities - frontline insights into the social determinants of health" (Download presentation here)

Dr Kreseda Smith, Senior Lecturer, Harper Adams University "Crime and Stress in British Farmers" (Download presentation here)

Dr Hayden Bird, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health "Evaluating Housing and Wellbeing Co-ordinators in housing teams. The East Sussex Wellbeing and Employment Service Evaluation (ESWE)" (Download presentation here)

An AI generated summary of this seminar can be downloaded below:

Speakers and related links:

- Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network

Delivering for All Campaign
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/delivering-for-all

Plan for Change
https://www.gov.uk/missions

Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/10-year-health-plan-for-england-fit-for-the-future

RSN Rural Lens Review of 10 year Health Plan for England
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-lens-review-10-year-health-plan

Delivering for All Survey
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/have-your-say-delivering-for-all-survey

RSN call to unfreeze local housing allowance
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rsn-joins-sector-call-to-unfreeze-local-housing-allowance

RSN evidence given to House of Lords on Social Mobility
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/removing-rural-barriers-could-unlock-major-opportunities

- Rebecca Payne GP, Churchill Fellow,
The Churchill Fellowship
[email protected]

Research by Rebecca Payne on rural health care
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca-Payne-23

Royal Flying Doctors Service
https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/

Bot-ched Advice
https://thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/health-society/bot-ched-advice-disturbing-results-in-ai-study/

BBC article on ground breaking drug dispensing robot
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20d3enqnvo

Resources about the impact of remotely delivered care
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/interdisciplinary-research-in-health-sciences/remote-by-default-2/Remote-by-Default-2-project-resources

- Dr Edward Pemberton, Senior Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice
[email protected]

Fair Society, healthy lives: the Marmot Review
https://www.gov.uk/research-for-development-outputs/fair-society-healthy-lives-the-marmot-review-strategic-review-of-health-inequalities-in-england-post-2010


- Dr Kreseda Smith, Senior Lecturer, Harper Adams University
[email protected]

Rural Resilience Research Group
https://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/research/940/research-centre/rural-resilience-research-group/

ESC European Rural Criminology Working Group
https://esc-eurocrim.org/v2/wg/

A copy of the research flyer can be downloaded here


- Dr Hayden Bird, Post-Doctoral Research Associate Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health
[email protected]

Phirst Evaluations
https://phirst.nihr.ac.uk/

Case Study on East Sussex Wellbeing and Employment ESWE Service
https://www.local.gov.uk/case-studies/addressing-homelessness-through-holistic-care-east-sussex-wellbeing-and-employment

Useful links from the session:

RABI Big Farming Survey Results including results on stress and crime
https://rabi.org.uk/about/big-farming-survey/

National Rural Crime Network
https://nationalruralcrimenetwork.net/

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