In Member for Orange Phil Donato's eyes that's often the result of a lack of access to health and support programs in regional areas, particularly in terms of services targeting mental health.

His continued push for support has long-been a feature of his parliamentary addresses and he confirmed he will keep pursuing it and plans to discuss the issue with NSW Minister for Mental Health Bronnie Taylor later this month.

Mr Donato said he's also planning to invite Ms Taylor to Orange's Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, where he and Member for Barwon Roy Butler discussed support challenges with the centre's director, Professor David Perkins last week.

"I'm going to invite her to come and tour this facility because I think it's important she realises what's happening out here, and I'll raise a number of issues that have been identified locally," Mr Donato explained.

"The level of support and access to them in our regional communities is obviously an issue I'll be raising, obviously we've had some suicides in our community recently and we're still reeling for them.

"I'm very passionate about addressing the issues, to ensure we can provide the best support and services to our community.

"I was a bit pusher of the Suicide Register and the government took that board and implemented that but we can always do more, to provide that support and structure, those services, to help people in the community who need it."

Mr Donato and Mr Butler, who also visited Ronald McDonald House the day before, discussed the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health's ongoing research and support of co-ordinated services.

They, and Professor Perkins, all agreed as much of an issue is a lack of relevant support for specific issues in regional and rural communities, along with suggesting more integration of services could be a way forward.

"We're all in this together, there are devastating long-term problems we can't necessarily solve with short-term, clinical problems so we need to put our minds to this to make sure we're supporting people across the state properly," Professor Perkins.

"The centre has been here for 20 years but the problem's not solved, we're working to see what it would take to have a supply of qualified people living who rural areas who are able to address issues.

"And that would be different across different places because big, thriving areas like Orange have different needs to smaller places like Ivanhoe. We need to have solutions that fit particular communities."

"Your postcode shouldn't dictate the level of health you receive, we should all be entitled to the same level of healthcare," Mr Donato agreed.

Mr Butler concurred as well, suggesting 'throwing money at the problem isn't the answer' and reiterating the need for specific, specialised support across the state and his electorate.

"Having people who understand the communities means you can have a much more targeted referral and intervention for better outcomes.''

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