University Clinical Placement Survey
National Health Workforce CollaborationNational Health Workforce Work Program
Jurisdictions in Australia face the challenge of having the workforce provide equitable, accessible, sustainable, timely and safe health care. The issues experienced at a national level include workforce shortages, maldistribution, managing changing models of care and maintaining a culture of effective governance and continuous improvement.
The NHWT work program was established to align with the National Health Workforce Strategic Framework which is designed to guide national health workforce policy and planning and Australia’s investment in its health workforce.
Underpinning the above priorities was a consideration for the particular workforce requirements of groups with special needs, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with mental illnesses, people with disabilities and those requiring aged care.
The NHWT work program comprised projects that contributed to addressing these issues at the national level. The work undertaken by the NHWT took consideration of two key criteria, being that all:
- Activities should ‘add value’ at a national level.
- Projects would contribute to developing a rigorous evidence base that would lead to and promote a shared understanding of the issues.
The program responsibilities were:
The strategic intent of each program was presented in the work program with related key project summaries and a process diagram that demonstrated progress over time as aligned with the key projects and/or activities being undertaken.
