National Health Workforce CollaborationNational Health Workforce Work Program
Jurisdictions in Australia face the challenge of having the workforce to provide equitable, accessible, sustainable, timely, 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 aligns 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 will be the 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 will comprise projects that contribute to addressing these issues at the national level. The work undertaken by the NHWT takes consideration of two key criteria, being that all:
- Activities should ‘add value’ at a national level.
- Projects will contribute to developing a rigorous evidence base that will lead to and promote a shared understanding of the issues.
The elements of developing a rigorous and credible evidence base, building capacity through education and training and driving change through innovation and reform are clearly inter-connected and interdependent. The program areas will have carriage of specific project outcomes and be required to oversee opportunities that strengthen collaboration, linkages and dependencies between these elements over time.
The program responsibilities are:
The strategic intent of each program is presented in the work program with related key project summaries and a process diagram that demonstrates progress over time as aligned with the key projects and/or activities being undertaken.
