Rural England

SHORT SURVEY OF RHCA MEMBERS AND OTHERS

The National Centre for Rural Health and Care (NCRHC) has commissioned Rural England CIC (supported by the Nuffield Trust) to produce an up-to-date version of the Rural Proofing for Health Toolkit.  This will be an online tool to help health and care service providers take account of the needs of their rural populations and to develop appropriate services which are accessible to them.

This short survey (of seven questions) aims to collect information about the challenges and opportunities you face as an organisation delivering services to rural populations i.e. those living in small towns, villages, hamlets and farms.  The information gathered will be used to help decide on the scope and content of the Toolkit: to ensure it is relevant for potential users.

The NCRHC and Rural England CIC would very much like to hear the perspective of your organisation.  Please be assured your personal details will be treated confidentially and we will not publish or share (outside the project team) any information that could identify a person or organisation responding to the survey without first seeking and gaining their consent.  If you have a question about the project it can be sent to info@ruralengland.org

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* 1. What is the name of your organisation?

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* 2. What are likely to be the main Strategies or Plans that your organisation develops over the next few years? (These could be broad partnership plans, plans that affect specific service areas or plans that concern operational issues e.g. staffing, estates, IT, finance.)

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* 3. When your organisation comes to implement the Strategies or Plans you have cited above, what do you consider are likely to be the main challenges it will face delivering them to health and care service users who live in rural areas?

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* 4. Thinking about those rural challenges, are there certain health and care service areas which they seem particularly likely to affect? What are they e.g. acute hospital services, mental health services, adult social care?

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* 5. When your organisation comes to implement the Strategies or Plans you have cited above, what do you consider are likely to be the main opportunities which could assist you in providing health and care services to those users who live in rural areas?

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* 6. Thinking about those rural opportunities, are there certain health and care service areas which they seem particularly likely to affect? What are they e.g. acute hospital services, mental health services, adult social care?

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* 7. Does your organisation have an example of innovation or good practice in the provision of health or care services to rural service users? We are keen to identify examples with some existing evidence of benefits being achieved (from monitoring, review or evaluation).

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* 8. It would be very helpful to have some contact details, if you are willing to provide that.  This will only be used for project purposes, such as following up the information or good practice.

Please submit your answers below by clicking 'Done' and many thanks for your time in responding.

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