Clinics on NSW-Victorian border seek medical practice assistants amid staff shortages

This RACGP News article explores a new report for the government's Special Commission of Inquiry into Healthcare Funding. The report is co-authored by the NSW Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant, and it makes important observations regarding the current funding model - including its lack of funding for preventative health care strategies, and its inefficient support of innovative service delivery and the development of new models of care, especially out-of-hospital models of care.

In this analysis, we calculate the Full-time Equivalent (FTE) of AHPRA registration numbers for each professional category and compare the ratio and rate of FTE AHPRA Registered professionals per head of population in Australia.

In this report we take a look at the latest registration data from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and compare quarterly figures over the past five years, from 2018 to 2023.

This article looks at the growing trend of registered Nurses and Midwives shifting to agency work over permanent roles. It highlights the benefits of agency work for individual workers while noting negative consequences such as pay disparity between employees and the reduced ability of organisations to compete for workers.