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Health Workforce Queensland (HWQ) look forward every year to holding our Health Workforce Stakeholder Group (HWSG) Meeting, which met this year on Thursday 11 September.
With this year’s addition of Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and the Australian Institute of Paramedic Practitioners (AIPP) we now have 36 members. This broad representation enables us to fully explore collaborative strategies to access multi-disciplinary primary health care workforces in Queensland's remote and rural communities.
The topic of this year’s meeting was ‘Enablers of the sustainability of primary care in Queensland’s remote and rural communities’, tackling what the group recommended should be included from a macro, meso and micro place-based level to improve viability of the primary care sector where it is at risk.
It is highly energising to work so collaboratively, where all members add value to the solutions proposed and actions to follow up. Table discussions worked through the essential requirements for primary health services such as workforce organisation and supply, funding, governance and leadership, linkages and infrastructure.
Across the board, discussion groups identified grow your own workforce strategies and local health workforce connector roles as critical enablers of sustainable primary health care workforces, amongst other specific strategies at a national, state and local level. Importantly, there was call from the group to explore options for the development of a primary care workforce alliance which could work collectively on the issues raised in the HWSG.
A full summary of the HWSG Meeting will be shared in the next few weeks.
