Children’s Healthcare Australasia (CHA) and the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) are joining forces to host a national Conference on quality healthcare for children and young people living in rural, regional and remote communities across Australia.

This unique Conference will showcase innovations, models, programs and activities that enhance the health and wellbeing of infants, children and young people in rural and remote Australia.

The two-day event, will offer learning and networking opportunities to a wide cross-section of public and private sector healthcare providers, consumers, policy makers and researchers involved with the health and wellbeing of children in rural

and remote areas.

The call for abstracts is now open and submitting an abstract is the first step to take in order to be on the program

The Alice Springs Conference will focus on:

• placing children and their families at the centre of care
• keeping rural and remote kids healthy
• enhancing the patient journey from primary through secondary to tertiary care – and back again
• improving access to the right care, in the right place, at the right time
• building the capacity of rural, regional and remote health workforce teams to care for children locally
• improving healthcare outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people
• caring for kids from rural and remote areas who have chronic and/or complex health needs
• providing emergency care to rural and remote kids
• mental health care for children in rural and remote communities
• care of rural and remote children and adolescents with traumatic physical or mental injury

Abstracts should be submitted online via the Conference website at

www.countrykids.org.au where you will be redirected to the abstract submission portal.

Authors who are not able to submit their abstract online are asked to contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Questions about the abstract process may be directed to Kellie Sydlarczuk by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

or by phone on 02 6285 4660.

Abstracts welcome from students, researchers, professionals, volunteers and parents. Abstracts can be submitted in English or Spanish.

The deadline for abstracts submission is 26 October 2015.

All abstracts to be submitted online via the ICPCN Conference website.

Thematic Areas

• Pain and symptom management, including non-pharmacological therapies
• Psychosocial aspects of care including grief and bereavement
• Spiritual care in clinical practice
• Ethics
• Education for children's palliative care
• Perinatal palliative care
• CPC and Non Communicable Diseases
• Transition from children's to adult palliative care services
• Family and volunteers' perspectives
• Organisation of services, including the role of schools and other organisations

Find out more and submit your abstract:

http://icpcn.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=490be22c3a1dd51b0085092f8&id=cff3ced006&e=2b457e3361

Special issue editors Professor Roger Stancliffe (University of Sydney), Professor Sue Read (Keele University) and Dr Michele Wiese (University of Sydney) are seeking papers on all aspects of the experience of dying and death by people with intellectual disabilities.

Topics may include, but are not limited to end-of-life planning, participation in rituals and remembrance, palliative care, disclosure of a terminal condition, interventions to enhance understanding and/or experiences, bereavement, organ donation, and bequeathing.

Papers can address the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities, family members, disabilities service staff or others involved in the end of life of a person with intellectual disabilities.

The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2016. It is currently expected that the special issue will be published during 2017.

Papers should be submitted via the online JARID Manuscript Central site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jarid and flagged as an End of Life special issue submission.

At the same time, you must email Roger Stancliffe This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to notify him that you have made a submission.

Enquiries about the suitability of proposed submissions or other matters should be sent to Roger Stancliffe at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.