Discussion Paper: Clinical placements across Australia: capturing data and understanding demand and capacity
The National Health Workforce Taskforce, established by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), released a Discussion Paper in December 2008 to encourage debate over the need for better clinical placement data.
This Discussion Paper seeks to investigate the current systems across jurisdictions that generate and collect data regarding the demand for clinical placement. It sets out the basic approaches to identifying and enumerating the supply of and demand for clinical placements. It then considers the benefits of a national clinical placement data collection and presents some discussion questions to progress a dialogue about the opportunities for developing ongoing processes of collection.
Consultation on the Discussion Paper comprised written submissions (closed on 10 February 2009), roundtables in Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney during January and February 2009 and a preliminary survey on the management of clinical training data by registered attendees of the roundtables.
Please direct enquiries to taskforce@nhwt.gov.au
Directions Paper: Clinical training - Data management system
Following the release of the Discussion Paper: Clinical placements across Australia: capturing data and understanding demand and capacity, NHWT undertook an extensive consultation process across Australia as to the preferred system to manage the clinical training placement data. The outcome of those consultations is the Directions paper Clinical training – Data management system
Clinical training – Data Management System (pdf, 162k)
Please direct enquiries to taskforce@nhwt.gov.au
