Health Workforce Planning

Running head: HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING 1
Health Workforce Training
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Contents
Abbreviations..............................................................................................3
Executive summary.......................................................................................4
Introduction..................................................................................................4
Data representation..................................................................................... .5
Policies on international worker immigration........................................................6

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Development of policies.................................................................................. .8
Sustainability of policies...............................................................................8
Policy changes that the government should consider implementing................... ...........9
Recommendations.......................................................................................10
Conclusion.............................................................................................. 10
References................................................................................................11
List of abbreviations
WHO: World Health Organization
WHA: World Health Assembly
IMG: International medical graduates

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Executive summary
This report focuses on the Australian health workforce immigration has continually
grown despite the fact that there are resident medical practitioners trained in Australia. This
report focuses on Australia’s reliance on international migration for the health workforce, the
current policies put in place to govern this immigration, reasons for this developments and
changes that should be made to by the Australian government to reduce the adverse effects of the
migration. “Working for health and Growth: investing in the health workforce,” it focuses on
transforming the health workforce for sustainable development goals and recommendations to
improve the future workforce plan (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), 2012).
Introduction
Health workforce planning involves studying the lack of workforce planning results to
Imbalances that disable the achievement of objectives by the healthcare systems. Proper planning
should be done to achieve policies that are responsive to the needs and expectations of the state’s
population by making sure planners make effective and systematic methods of obtaining human
resource distribution. Planners should also focus on how these effective distribution systems will
be implemented without affecting the current workforce. A country’s workforce should

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maximize their resident’s potential before outsourcing thus reducing the number of health care
immigrants. Resource. The planning process is complicated since it involves the future that's
filled with uncertainties therefore based on assumptions. Health care planners should ensure to
strike a balance between immigrants supply and the residents supply thus reducing the risk of
oversupply or deficiency.
A data representation of the medical practitioners and midwifery and nursing
professionals by country or region of birth, 2011
Country or region
of birth
Medical
practitioners
Percentage Midwifery and
nursing
professionals
Percentage
South Asia 8,155 11.7% 8,339 3.9%
Sub-Saharan Africa 3,211 4.6% 6,719 2.8%
Central Asia
120 0.2% 98 0.0%
South and Central
America and the
Caribbean
413 0.6% 1,266 0.5%
New Zealand 1,529 2.29% 7,335 3.1%