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AHMC Publications
National Health Workforce Strategic Framework - April 2004 (pdf, 244k)
NHWT publications
The health workforce in Australia and factors influencing current shortages (pdf, 677k)
It is generally accepted that Australia will continue to experience increasing demand for health care workers and at a rate that will challenge Australia’s training and service delivery systems’ without significant change to it’s approach to workforce development. The underlying health service demand drivers include; population growth, ageing of the population, changing nature of the burden of disease and greater focus on health prevention, which taken together with consumer and workforce expectations, combine to result in increasing demand for health care services and for healthcare workforce.
The current and projected shortage in the Australian health workforce are driven by a complex interaction of demographic, socio-cultural, clinical and professional factors that exert influences on both the demand for health workers’ services, and the supply of health workers. These shortages are not uniformly distributed, but vary by health profession, specialty, jurisdiction and geographical location (metropolitan, rural, remote).
As part of developing the health workforce reform package for consideration of and subsequent agreement by COAG in November 2008, the National Health Workforce Taskforce commissioned KPMG to prepare an analysis that outlines the factors influencing current and projected workforce shortage and that considers the implications that these factors may have on workforce development strategies. This document provides a useful background and insight to the problems being faced.
Self Sufficiency and International Medical Graduates - Australia (pdf, 172k)
Workforce innovation and reform: Caring for older people Discussion paper - December 2008 (pdf,684k)
Clinical training - Governance and Organisation Discussion paper (pdf, 424k)
Workforce Innovation and Reform Demonstration Projects national evaluation framework (pdf,156k)
Other Publications
The Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC) undertook a review of its committees in 2005-06 resulting in the disbanding of a number of professions specific workforce committees to enable a more holistic, multidisciplinary approach to consideration of health related policy development and program review activity. This included the cessation of profession-focused committees such as the Australian Medical Workforce Advisory Committee (AMWAC) and the Australian Health Workforce Advisory Committee (AHWAC). The HWPC now coordinates all of AHMAC’s workforce activity.
Reports produced by committees previously under the auspice of AHMAC and reports produced by the National Nursing and Nursing Education Taskforce (N3ET) are available below.
2006
Health workforce impact checklist (pdf file, 80k)
Health workforce planning in emergency departments (pdf file, 264k)
The Australian allied health workforce (pdf file, 435k)
The perioperative workforce in Australia (pdf file, 525k)
2005
A models of care approach to health workforce planning (pdf file, 169k)
AHWOC Annual Report 04-05 (pdf file, 194k)
Career decision making by postgraduate doctors - Key findings (pdf file, 66k)
Career decision making by postgraduate doctors - Main report (pdf file, 3327k)
Career decision making by postgraduate doctors - Statistical appendix (pdf file, 109k)
Career decision making by postgraduate doctors - Summary (pdf file, 185k)
Clinical Training Placements - Analysis of responses (pdf file, 65k)
Demand for health services and the health workforce (pdf file, 571k)
General practice workforce modelling - Technical paper (pdf file, 1354k)
Review of Australian specialist medical colleges (pdf file, 540k)
Technology and health workforce planning (pdf file, 644k)
The general practice workforce in Australia - Summary (pdf file, 245k)
The general practice workforce in Australia (pdf file, 3092k)
2004
Australian nursing workforce - An overview of planning (pdf file, 220k)
National Health Workforce - Strategic Framework (pdf file, 254k)
Nursing workforce planning in Australia (pdf file, 524k)
Public hospital medical workforce in Australia - Appendices (pdf file, 1369k)
Public hospital medical workforce in Australia (pdf file, 614k)
Specialist obstetrics and gynaecology workforces in Australia (pdf file, 2735k)
Survey of doctors in rural and remote locations - OTD Scheme (pdf file, 680k)
Sustainable specialist services - A compendium of requirements (pdf file, 599k)
2003
AHWAC Annual Report 02-03 (pdf file, 155k)
Australian mental health nurse supply - Recruitment and Retention (pdf file, 880k)
Career decision making by doctors in vocational training - Review (pdf file, 191k)
Career decision making by doctors in vocational training - Survey (pdf file, 909k)
Emergency care workforce forum (pdf file, 187k)
Specialist medical workforce planning in Australia (pdf file, 472k)
The specialist emergency medical workforce in Australia (pdf file, 603k)
The specialist pathology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 690k)
2002
Career decision making by doctors in postgraduate years (pdf file, 717k)
The critical care nurse workforce in Australia (pdf file, 2730k)
The midwifery workforce in Australia (pdf file, 4197k)
2001
The cardiothoracic surgery workforce in Australia (pdf file, 450k)
The specialist anaesthesia workforce in Australia (pdf file, 2235k)
The specialist medicine and haematological workforce in Australia (pdf file, 825k)
The specialist radiology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 491k)
2000
Medical workforce training and employment workshop (pdf file, 60k)
The general practice workforce in Australia (pdf file, 539k)
The neurosurgery workforce in Australia (pdf file, 402k)
The specialist gastroenterology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 507k)
The specialist thoracic medicine workforce in Australia (pdf file, 467k)
1999
Temporary resident doctors in Australia (pdf file, 682k)
The consultant paediatric workforce in Australia (pdf file, 702k)
The intensive care workforce in Australia (pdf file, 413k)
The orthopaedic surgery workforce in Australia (pdf file, 254k)
The specialist cardiology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 529k)
The specialist psychiatry workforce in Australia (pdf file, 861k)
1998
Influences on participation in the Australian medical workforce (pdf file, 137k)
Medical workforce supply & demand in Australia - Discussion paper (pdf file, 351k)
New Zealand medical graduates in the Australian medical workforce (pdf file, 247k)
Sustainable specialist services - A compendium of requirements (pdf file, 702k)
The obstetrics and gynaecology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 734k)
The radiation oncology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 388k)
The specialist dermatology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 505k)
1997
The characteristics of medical students entering medical schools (pdf file, 313k)
The ear nose and throat surgery workforce in Australia (pdf file, 379k)
The emergency medicine workforce in Australia (pdf file, 306k)
The general surgery workforce in Australia (pdf file, 394k)
The geriatric medical workforce in Australia (pdf file, 489k)
The rehabilitation medicine workforce in Australia (pdf file, 371k)
1996
Australian medical workforce benchmarks (pdf file, 158k)
Female participation in the Australian medical workforce (pdf file, 200k)
The anaesthetic workforce in Australia (pdf file, 389k)
The medical workforce in rural and remote Australia (pdf file, 332k)
The ophthalmology workforce in Australia (pdf file, 827k)
The orthopaedic surgery workforce in Australia (pdf file, 903k)
