National Medical Workforce Strategy consultation webinar

Hosted Dr Susan Wearne, Principal Medical Advisor on the Strategy on 5 March 2020 from 6pm - 7pm (AEDT).

This is the second webinar in this consultation process, a recording of the first can be viewed here.

A National Medical Workforce Strategy is being developed to:

•Guide medical workforce planning activities at all levels of government,

•Match the supply of GPs, non GP specialists and consultant physicians to the predicted medical service needs of the community.

•Identify achievable, practical actions to build a sustainable, highly-trained medical workforce.

Consultation included forums and interviews in each state and territory with a cross-section of key medical professional organisations, doctors and State Health representatives.

It focused on testing, refining and detailing the potential solutions to the priority medical workforce issues that have been identified. A summary of the workforce issues and potential solutions is provided here and the full documents are available in the related documents section of this page.

If you have any questions about this webinar email healthworkforcestrategy@health.gov.au.