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

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@HWAGovAu

Health Workforce Australia

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