What If the Four Yorkshiremen Managed Regional Health? Reconfiguring Administration, Management and Leadership in Allied Health beyond the Metropolis

Abstract

This article offers testimony that summons an unspoken and unwritten history of regional Allied Health. Constructed in two sections, this article explores foundational models of Allied Health leadership and then probes the disconnection between these models, strategies, policies and procedures, and the lived experience in regional cities. This research probes the potential of Allied Health services in a regional location, beyond supplementing the agenda of large cities. The aim of this article is to demonstrate what has gone wrong in Allied Health in regional Australia, and then provide tropes and strategies for renewal, particularly after the pandemic.

Keywords

• allied health
• public health
• regional health
• health collaboration
• health leadership