Remote Australia poses particular challenges to the provision of health services. Vast distances, extreme climates, hostile environment such as bush fire or flood, sparce populations, little public transport, fractured regional infrastructure, cultural diversity, poverty poor health status, a widening gap I health status.
Out of these incredible challenges have arisen many innovative models of health care. Matching the health service needs, complex individual health needs and the health work force has been a challenge not all sectors have been keen to embrace.
This paper will discuss these issues, highlighting some of the Australian Practitioner responses and experience.