Bringing Them Home
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce
A competent health workforce is integral to the effective and efficient delivery of primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Islander people.
Table of Contents
1. Getting into health. Studying and how to pay for it.
2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Information
3. Indigenous Environmental Health Worker Information
4. Health Service Governance – Information for Board Members
5. Links to other Health Workforce sites
6. Workforce Strategic Framework
7. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce Working Group
8. Contact us
Media releases
- WA hospitals boosted by record number of new nurses and more to come
- Audit of health workforce shortage in rural and regional Australia
Program/Initiatives
- Access to Allied Psychological Services
- Nurse Practitioner Scholarship Scheme
- Rural Pharmacy Workforce Program
- Structural Reform of the RANZCP Fellowship Training Program
- National Rural Health Students' Network
Publications
- 2007 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey – Who Cares for Older Australians? A Picture of the Residential and Community Based Aged Care Workforce – Final Report
- The Australian Pathology Workforce Crisis
- Review of the Training for Rural and Remote Procedural GPs Program
- Medical Training Review Panel: Twelfth Report
- Medical Training Review Panel: Ninth Report
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