Junior Doctors and Medical Graduates: Choose to become a GP – applications for 2025 GP training are now open

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.

Our analysis looks at the latest ABS data that estimates employee earnings and hours, pay settings, and public vs private sector wages and distribution – available by industry and occupation category.

The latest ABS statistics: the proportion of Health Care and Social Assistance businesses reporting vacancies continues to trend downward. Job vacancy volumes are still high compared to pre-pandemic years, but the rate of growth is slowing. Strong quarterly gains for total jobs, filled jobs and employees demonstrates continued resilience in the sector despite contractions and rising unemployment in other industries.

The Specialist Training Program (STP) and the Integrated Rural Training Pipeline (IRTP) are Australian government initiatives that fund the training of specialist registrars in settings outside traditional metropolitan teaching hospitals, including regional, rural, remote, and private facilities. The Department of Health and Aged Care and specialist medical colleges are currently accepting applications for new training posts until 4 April 2024. More information here.