Health Workforce Planning

Running head: HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
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Executive Summary
This report will discuss in detail about the health workforce planning with the ability
to improve the practice the current policy in order to critically analyse and change the
practice of existing health workforce provider. The existing policies are modified to highlight
the current situation of Australia’s health workforce and to overcome the shortages of this
healthcare workforce. The primary aim of this report is established to increase the concern on
international migration in Australia and the reason of these developments by modifying the
current policies in order to address the negative effects of health care workers. Ten different
recommendations are provided in this report to transform the health workforce for the
sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to check if the altered policies are sustainable to
meet the increasing demand of the health workforce.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Reliance of Australia at present on international health worker immigration to meet
workforce supply:.......................................................................................................................4
Australian government policies on international health worker immigration:..........................4
Reasons behind the development within Australia:...................................................................5
Sustainability of the policy:.......................................................................................................5
Implements to reduce the negative effect of migration:.............................................................6
Recommendation........................................................................................................................6
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Australia is undergoing through workforce shortages in various health professions in
spite of the substantial and developing reliance among overseas skilled health workers. The
health workforces provide various services through public and private organizations.
Approximately 1 million people in Australia are employed under health workforce and
welfare services (Wakerman & Humphreys, 2019). The shortage in health and welfare
workforce is experienced more in remote and rural areas with increasing demand of labour in
order to fulfil the expectation of growing community. The primary aim of this report is to
establish the researching data on dependence of Australia for health workforce concerning the
international migration of the healthcare providers (Seal et al., 2019). The benefit of migrated
healthcare workforce in enhancing and improving the health workforce through different
policies are explained in this report. The primary reason for this development was identified
and to verify if the developed policies are efficiently addressing or concerning the negative
effects on the health worker migration.