Post on 03-Jan-2020
Recent changes
• Creation of a Chief Allied Health Advisor role
•Naming of the Workforce Innovation and Allied Health team
• Ex-Allied Health practitioner Minister of Health
Patients as objects
Patient-centred care
Wellness focus
There’s a lot happening!
• Focus on allied health early graduate programs
• Allied Health assistant implementation program
• Allied Health Assistant forum
• Roll out of Advanced Physiotherapy roles
• Regional allied health mentoring program
• Medical radiations and imaging technology workforce strategy
The department counts a lot of professions in allied health…
Art therapy
Audiology
Chiropracty
Dietetics
Exercise physiology
Medical laboratory science
Medical physics
Music therapy
Nuclear medicine
Nutrition
Occupational therapy
Optometry
Oral Health (not dentistry)
Orthotics and prosthetics
Orthoptics
Osteopathy
Pharmacy
Physiotherapy
Play therapy
Podiatry
Psychology
Social work
Sonography
Speech therapy
Radiation therapy
Radiography
Diversity of allied health
The challenge is balancing the strength of being a group known as “allied health” with an understanding of the diversity of professions within the group
Therapy group
Art therapy
Chiropracty
Dietetics
Exercise physiology
Music therapy
Nutrition
Occupational therapy
Oral Health (not dentistry)
Osteopathy
Orthotics and prosthetics
Physiotherapy
Play therapy
Podiatry
Psychology
Social work
Sonography
Speech therapy
Science group
Audiology
Medical laboratory science
Medical physics
Nuclear medicine
Optometry
Orthoptics
Pharmacy
Radiation therapy
Radiography
Growing our leaders and connecting with the department
• Ministerial Advisory Committee for Allied Health
• Education Advisory Group (therapy)
• Education Advisory Group (science)
• Allied Health Directors Strategic Discussion Group
• Allied Health Science Senior Clinicians Group
More new developments…
• Allied health research conference
• Weekend allied health services research
• Professional practice governance and competency frameworks
• Input into key departmental initiatives – Victorian Quality Framework, Sustainable Hospitals Initiative
• Renewed focus on data