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Plenary one:
Update on national health
workforce reform agencies
Speaker:
Mark Cormack, Chief Executive Officer Health Workforce Australia
2013 International Health Workforce Collaborative
7 May 2013
Loews Hôtel Le Concorde, Québec City, Canada
• Building a sustainable health
workforce for Australia
• Addressing critical health
workforce priorities: planning,
training and reform
• Bringing together government
and non-government
organisations across the health
and higher education sectors
• Reporting directly to Australia’s
Health Ministers
About Health
Workforce Australia
• Funding programs for
clinical training
• Developing alternative
training methods: simulated
learning environments
• Improving recruitment,
orientation and retention of
international health
professionals
• Developing our Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
health workforce
Building capacity
• Increasing productivity and flexibility of our aged care
workforce
• Implementing new workforce models: expanded scopes of
practice
• Establishing a national
common health competency resource
• Implementing a national
mental health workforce strategy and plan
• Expanding assistant and
support roles
Boosting
productivity
• Addressing workforce
imbalances in rural and
remote areas
• Rural training pathways
rural generalists
• Developing national
workforce strategies for:
― Cancer
― Rural and remote
― Mental health
― Aboriginal health
Improving
distribution
• Planning, modelling,
projections, research
and evaluation
• Health Workforce 2025:
Doctors, Nurses and
Midwives
• National statistical
resource
• Research program
Building the
evidence
Providing
leadership
• Developing national
health leadership training
and capacity building
mechanisms
• Health LEADS Australia:
developing a national
health leadership
framework
• Promoting public debate
about health workforce
issues
Working in
collaboration
• Collaborating and
partnering with
stakeholders
• Integrated regional
clinical training networks
• Standing Advisory
Committees
• International
collaborations
Interface with
government
1. Improved productivity through
workforce innovation and
reform
2. Improved mechanisms for the
provision of efficient training
3. Addressing barriers and
enablers to workforce reform
4. Streamlining clinical training
funding
5. Achieving national self-
sufficiency
hwa.gov.au
@HWAGovAu
Health Workforce Australia
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