Health Workforce Australia 2012-13 Work Plan
Health Workforce Australia 2012-13 Work Plan
Health Workforce Australia 2012-13 Work Plan
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1. BUILDING CAPACITY<br />
1.10 <strong><strong>Work</strong>force</strong> Development<br />
- Program Integration and<br />
Sustainability<br />
Purpose<br />
To map and identify the range of targeted health workforce development<br />
programs funded and implemented across the Commonwealth, State and<br />
Territory Governments and assess their alignment with priority reform directions<br />
identified in the HW 2025 and the National <strong>Health</strong> <strong><strong>Work</strong>force</strong> Innovation &<br />
Reform Strategic Framework for Action 2011-2015.<br />
<strong>Health</strong> workforce development programs have been developed progressively<br />
at the Commonwealth, State and Territory government levels over several years.<br />
The programs have responded to successive issues over several years, in the<br />
absence of an overarching planning framework and national policy framework<br />
for coordinated national action.<br />
All governments have agreed to move to national activity based funding<br />
models for public hospital services, including teaching and training, with<br />
the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) to establish a national<br />
efficient pricing mechanism for such activity by 2018. This will enable greater<br />
transparency and accountability for outputs and outcomes in clinical training.<br />
The modern health workforce is not confined by jurisdictional, sectoral and<br />
national boundaries. Programs targeting its planning and development need<br />
to be considered in this light. With the advent of HW 2025, the National <strong>Health</strong><br />
<strong><strong>Work</strong>force</strong> Innovation & Reform Strategic Framework for Action 2011-2015<br />
and the emergence of activity based funding for aspects of <strong>Australia</strong>’s health<br />
workforce development it is appropriate to consider alignment of current<br />
targeted workforce programs with these key national foundations and their<br />
sustainability into the future.<br />
Key activities<br />
The key activities to be undertaken in <strong>2012</strong>-<strong>13</strong> include:<br />
Mapping the current range of national, state and territory health workforce<br />
development programs<br />
Assessing alignment of effort in these programs against HW 2025, and the<br />
National <strong>Health</strong> <strong><strong>Work</strong>force</strong> Innovation & Reform Strategic Framework for<br />
Action 2011-2015.<br />
Making recommendations to improve the alignment and targeting of programs<br />
against agreed priorities.<br />
1.10 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT - PROGRAM INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINABILITY<br />
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