National Health Workforce Collaboration
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to a significant national health workforce reform package to enable the health workforce to better respond to the evolving care needs of the Australian community, while maintaining the quality and safety of health services. The COAG package included the establishment of the National Health Workforce Taskforce (NHWT) to undertake project-based work and advise and develop workable solutions on workforce innovation and reform.
The National Health Workforce Taskforce (NHWT) is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced party to undertake a significant body of national health workforce research over a three-year period through a National Health Workforce Planning and Research Collaboration (the Collaboration).
The aims of the Collaboration are to:
- Build capacity, expertise and credibility in national health workforce planning and research in the NHWT, its collaborating partner, and health departments.
- Broaden and deepen the skills and expertise available for national health workforce planning and research studies.
- Strengthen the intellectual and methodological rigour of national health workforce planning and broader health workforce research.
- Develop best practice and innovative approaches to health workforce planning and research projects, including supply and demand projections and methodology.
- Produce a body of work that establishes the Collaboration as a recognised authority on health workforce planning, data and research.
- Provide a sound research base to inform policy decisions made by governments in relation to health workforce challenges.
- Meaningfully engage stakeholders and clinicians with respect to understanding the supply of and demand for health professions and other issues facing the health workforce and potential solutions to those issues.
Tenderers will need to demonstrate expertise in labour force modelling and research, particularly how these relate to the health care system, health policy and health workforce issues.
The Collaboration partner will be active in the field of workforce planning and health policy research and able to demonstrate that it has the resources and infrastructure necessary to manage a work program of the proposed nature and size to deliver high-quality research for the duration of the Collaboration.
Submissions are now closed and are being considered.
