Health Workforce Planning

Running head: HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
Health Workforce Planning
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Executive Summary
This report provides information, data, and statistics on the level of reliance of Australia
on international migration for the health workforce, the reasons for this developments and
whether the current policies adequately address the adverse effects of health worker migration.
The significant findings and recommendations on the same include:
- Shortages in specific capacities of nursing and medicine in Australia remain and are
anticipated to increase owing to an international deficiency of health workers.
- In the current era, as confirmed by the OECD, Australia has established an unusual
reliance on migrant healthcare workforce.
- Current Australian government policies on international health worker migration
include; privatization of Australia’s trained migration platform, deletion of a three-
year admissibility scale, and medical migrants are presently admitted on a short-term
rather than a long-term foundation.
- Current policies are sustainable since Australia has exploited proficiency exploitation
and curtailed excess.
- To reduce the adverse effects of health worker migration, Australia should; capitalize
on safe working environments, increase salary and enticements, and decentralize task
management.
- Australia’s reliance on international health workforce remains strong.
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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
How dependent is Australia presently on Transnational Medical Employee Immigration to meet
labor force hoard..............................................................................................................................3
Current Australian Government Policies on International Health Worker Migration....................4
Historical reasons for these developments in Australia...................................................................8
Sustainability of the Current Policies..............................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Transnational immigrants perform an imperative duty within the healthcare personnel of
developed nations such as Australia. Presently, migrant terminus states have depended on
overseas-native and overseas-skilled specialists to take up stations athwart the expertise range, as
of household health assistants and aides to dentists, pharmacists, caregivers, doctors, and health
experts (Iredale, 2015). Shortages in specific capacities of nursing and medicine remain and are
anticipated to increase owing to an international deficiency of health workers. Placing history to
the front would aid legislators to recognize the importance of Australia’s constant reliance on
overseas health workers and the necessity consequently both to advance fairness and prospect for
such health workers and to assimilate this element of health workforce scheduling into national
immigration strategy.
How dependent is Australia presently on Transnational Medical Employee Immigration to
meet labor force hoard
Ten years ago, the Australian medical personnel comprised 82 895 enumerated
physicians, likened to 57 553 in 1999 of whom 90% were working in the health staff, practically
all as doctors (a quotient of 3 for each 1000 of the populace, average for OECD states).
Generally, 25 707 physicians were working as prime attention physicians (an increase of a
quarter in the preceding era), with an additional 24 290 experts (+48%), 9154 experts in
preparation (+106%) and 7677 infirmary amateurs (+72%). In 2011–2012, Australia’s medical
personnel also comprised 326 669 enumerated nurses and midwives (8% increase from 2007,