Health workforce

The effectiveness of current workforce targets to improve the quality of aged care remains unclear

Stephanie L Harrison, Gillian E Caughey, Maria C Inacio

Junior doctors in New South Wales have long decried what they describe as unsafe working conditions and unequal pay. In February, junior doctors went on strike after a leaked email referred to the group as “marshmallows” for questioning working hours. Recently, the NSW government released its report from the Special Commission of Inquiry into Healthcare Funding, which calls for further efficiencies and funding.

Becca Whitehead

Public hospitals in NSW face more industrial action from doctors fed up with low wages and unsafe conditions.

Sally Block

Advice about delaying pregnancy or parental leave may be dismissed as an innocent attempt to help early career doctors achieve their goals, but it constitutes a breach of the Sex Discrimination Act. The fundamental human right to choose when or whether to have a baby is none of our business.

Leanne Rowe

Recently, doctors in training across the country expressed their widespread frustration about the derogatory attitudes of human resources (HR) management in public hospitals.  If intractable workplace abuses of doctors in training are not addressed, some public hospital directors and officers may face significant penalties from regulators for breaches of government-legislated work health and safety standards.

Leanne Rowe

Equity must be embedded in Ahpra’s registration fee systems if it is to achieve its intended aims and promote a safe and flexible health workforce.

Jill Tomlinson

Australia’s peak doctor groups are highly critical of aspects of the Scope of Practice Review.

Sally Block

A program that aims to fast-track international medical graduates into rural Australian placements is facing criticism for lacking detail and safeguards.

Caitlin Wright

Training general practitioners and rural generalists in the same practice over a number of years in rural and remote areas has benefits to the community, health services and supports the retention of doctors in these areas.

Sally Block