Building The Workforce To Make Mental Health Care More Available and Equitable

This article from NewsGP refers to a new ABS analysis of patient experiences, which reveals that the number of people who are delaying or avoiding seeing a GP due to cost, has doubled since last year. The article discusses price perceptions, cost-of-living pressures, practice viability in disadvantaged areas, fragmented care and the widening gap between health outcomes and access to services.

This article, from the Sydney Morning Herald, looks at the nationwide shortage of pathologists and how this might be delaying pathology test results for patients. Workforce supply and workload could be improved by increasing the Medicare rebate for pathology services, by increasing funded Pathology training programs, and by adopting new technologies.

In this article we compare different job boards and explore the benefits of niche job boards which cater to the health sector.

This article explores key dates for the 2024 Adult Medicine Divisional Clinical Exam (DCE) and analyses past DCE pass rates and attendence numbers from 2016 – 2023.