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This article explores the future role of Artificial Intelligence in Australian healthcare. Recent publications by the Medical Journal of Australia highlight barriers and risks to AI integration. While AI applications are used in medical imaging and have the potential to improve services, such as pathology services, a lack of trust continues, especially regarding possible biases in underlying data and uneven government regulation.

Are you interested in Aged Care? Aged care is one of the fastest growing sectors in Australia. With many reforms taking place over the next few years, including the Single Assessment System and The Support at Home program, the Department of Health and Aged Care have published a range of resources to help both employers and job seekers to understand these changes and the workforce development opportunities available.

The Health Workforce Update brings you the latest health and medical job vacancy statistics and labour force insights. The Internet Vacancy Index recorded month-on-month declines in health and medical job ads, with Medical Practitioner job ads falling by 12.33%. However, workforce demand remains robust with whole sector job listings up by 9.6% year-on-year and job ads for Medical Practitioners and some Allied Health Professions over 20% higher than a year earlier.

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.