Health Workforce Planning

Running Head: HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
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1HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
Executive summary
The Australian healthcare system requires the migrant medical workers due to huge shortage of
medical practitioners within the country. In this regard, the profession of the migrant health
workers is associated with the immigration policy of the Australian government. Based on this
perception, this report aims to understand the justification and relevance behind incorporating
overseas medical professionals into medical facilities in Australia. Besides this, the background
of the practice and the sustainability of the Australian government is also discussed in the report
in order to understand the efficacy of such policy making. Finally, some recommendations are
mentioned that will facilitate more efficiency in the healthcare policy framework of the
Australian government.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Australia on international health worker immigration.................................................................3
Government policies....................................................................................................................4
Historical development................................................................................................................6
Sustainability of the current policies...........................................................................................6
Recommendations............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

3HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
Introduction
Acute shortage in the healthcare workforce creates a severe threat to the global healthcare
initiatives. As per the WHO report the growing healthcare issues elevates the number of health
workers where 2.4 million physician, nurses and midwives are needed across the world. One of
the major reason behind this uneven distribution of health workers is due to the infrastructure,
economy and effective institutions. In this regard, in many countries the domestic workforce
supply is not enough to the deal with the required number of health workers. As a result of that
depending on the health worker immigration is considered to be an important factor for the
counties. In fact, it is essential to follow the international regulations and procuring better
national policy so that the immigrant social workers feel no difference to practice in abroad. In
fact, it is also beneficial for them to focus on the medical practices also.
In this context, this report will formulate an in-depth discussion over the practice of
health worker immigration practice in Australia. Moreover, the historical development and the
government policies are also incorporated in the study with an analysis on the sustainability of
the current policies.
Discussion
Australia on international health worker immigration
The Australian Healthcare Sector is highly vulnerably specifically in the outer
metropolitan and rural sectors. There are three key factors that are creating effective means to
incorporate more healthcare workers in order to cope with the growing need of the medical
practitioners. Firstly, it can be stated that the significant increase in the domestic medical