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50,000 more frontline health workers

The Rudd Government will invest in up to 50,000 additional health vocational training places, to tackle the current health workforce crisis – one of the single biggest injections of workers into the health system in Australian history.


 

This announcement was made following the Council of Australian Governments(COAG) meeting in

Adelaide
.

 

The training places will target areas of chronic skills shortage, such as dental health, nursing, and Indigenous health.


 

The Rudd Government recognises that addressing the health workforce crisis is critical to delivering better health services and to achieving long-term health reform.


 

Skills

Australia
will be asked to report to COAG in July 2008 on a method for allocating these priority places, following consultation with the COAG Health and Productivity working groups and ministerial councils.  These training places will be online from
1 January 2009.

 


  By providing up to 50,000 additional training places over the next three years for professionals including, enrolled nurses, dental health workers, allied health assistants, ambulance officers, and Aboriginal health workers, this commitment will provide a significant step towards addressing the current health workforce crisis.


 

The Rudd Labor Government will work in partnership with the states and territories to deliver more frontline health workers into our hospitals and community over the coming years, through this and other initiatives.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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