Institute of Rural Health

Rural Health Week

The dates of this year's Rural Health Week were from Sunday 18th September to Saturday 24th September 2011.

Rural Health Week is an annual event run for the Institute of Rural Health. Each year we choose a cross-cutting a 'theme' for the week and this year's theme was:

The aim of the week was to raise the profile of rural health issues locally, regionally and nationally. The Institute organises its own events and targets the national press to raise awareness of rural health issues. We try and encourage other agencies and organisations to join in with their own events in their localities.

Next year’s Rural Health Week will be from Sunday 23rd September to Saturday 29th September 2012. The theme for the week will be announced in the New Year.

How can you join in?

Joining the week is very easy and you can get as involved as you like. You could:

• Organise an event
• Launch a new project or strand of work
• Set up an exhibition for your community or a talk for your agency or organisation
• Advertise your event on the Rural Health Week web page
• Target your local press. Write an article or invite them along to your event
• Highlight a 'hot' rural health issue on the Rural Health Week web page
• Run a rural health information day
• Advertise Rural Health Week on your web site
• Simply send a message of support for the week to the web page
• Find out what others are doing from the Rural Health Week Events page

To find out more or to submit details of your activities for Rural Health Week please contact:

Go on - get involved - put rural health on the agenda
- make Rural Health Week a success!