The Pharmacy Guild of Australia: New Career Paths Report and Workforce Survey Results

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.

In this PS News article, the call for long-term structural investment into preventative health initiatives continues. The Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) and The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) have called on the government to prioritise health equity and prevention, as part of its national health reform agenda. Strengthening rural GP services, multidisciplinary care, social prescribing, outreach programs and clear ‘pipelines’ of funding, are some of the recommendations.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ News GP runs a weekly poll to gauge GP perspectives on various topics of interest. In this article, we provide a summary of poll results for last year - exploring what mattered to general practice in 2023, and the challenges that are set to continue in 2024 and beyond.

Read our report which summarises key information and statistics from the latest Medical Training Survey (MTS), which helps to measure the current demographics, workload, training quality, professional satisfaction, and future intentions of Doctors in Training in Australia. We look at current trends by comparing the latest MTS results to the last 5 years.