
NHS Education for Scotland Remote and Rural Team hosted a two-day visit and symposium in Aberdeen on the 29th and 30th November 2023. The symposium was hosted in partnership with Norwegian colleagues from the Centre for Rural Medicine and the Norwegian College of GPs and we were joined by around one hundred colleagues from Scotland and Norway.
Norway and Scotland have enjoyed a fruitful working relationship around remote and rural healthcare, education, research, and recruitment over many years. We are keen to strengthen and build on this relationship, sharing knowledge, innovations and resources that support improved health and care service provision for remote and rural communities in both countries.
The symposium provided an opportunity to explore some of the ongoing challenges in providing high quality rural healthcare, discuss programmes of work already underway, and identify solutions that may be taken forward to address more of these challenges now and into the future.
You can view some of the presentations from the symposium below.
Presentation by Anita Laidlaw (CHERI, University of Aberdeen)
Presentation by Dr Anna Terje, University of the highlands and islands, Division of Rural Health & Wellbeing
Presentation by Øystein Hetlevik, Professor and Steinar Hunskår, Professor, Section for General Practice, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
Presentation by Dr Pauline Wilson, Consultant Physician, NHS Shetland, Associate Postgraduate Dean, Rural and Remote Credential
Presentation by Professor Sarah Strasser
Presentation by Professor Sarah-Anne Munoz, Rural Health UHI
Presentation by Erik Prestgaard MD PhD
Presentation by Professor Sarah Strasser
Presentation by Professor Birgit Abelsen, NCRM/UiT
Presentation by Dr Heather Bain – Assistant Head of Department and Mr Roland Preston, Senior Lecturer Advanced Practice
Presentation by Anders Svensson, Norwegian centre for rural medicine- UiT and more
Presentation by Fiona Duff, Senior Advisor, Primary Care Directorate, Scottish Government
Presentation by Trish Gray, Head of Programme Education & Training, Leadership & Good Practice, NES
Presentation by Dr Fiona Graham, Programme Director and Dr Andrew O'Malley, Deputy Programme Director
Presentation by Claire Savage, Senior Project Lead, NES
Presentation by Fiona Duff, Senior Advisor, Primary Care Directorate, Scottish Government
Presentation by Professor Birgit Abelsen, NCRM/UiT
Presentation by Louise Locock and Andrew Maclaren, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen
Presentation by Knut Eirik Eliassen, MD PhD GP, Associate Professor and Project manager of the FRONESIS project