Health practitioners
ALTERNATIVE LABELS
Health workers
Medical personnel
Medical practitioners
Health care workers
Health care professionals
Medical professionals
NARROWER TERMS
Report
A new Medicare: strengthening general practice
This report calls for an overhaul of the way general practitioners work and get paid so Australia can turn the tide of chronic disease, keep more people out of hospital, and ensure poorer Australians get the care they need when they need it.
Report
State of the disability sector 2022
National Disability Services' State of the disability sector' report for 2022 is based on responses from 364 disability service providers who took part in this national, annual sector survey. The report reveals a difficult operating environment for most providers. However, there are some glimmers of...
Report
General Practice Crisis Summit: white paper
This document was produced by the RACGP as an overview of the discussion and recommendations put forward at the General Practice Crisis Summit, held in Canberra on 5 October 2022.
Report
Australia’s medical workforce: maldistributed and lately never enough
This paper covers the spread of, and interactions within, the medical workforce in recent decades. It does this in order to illustrate the way in which a bias towards hospital and specialist care has occurred.
Strategy
Being equally well: implementation action plan
The Being Equally Well project aims to create a strong, evidence and consensus-based suite of recommendations for improvements to health services and systems that will enable consistent and more effective physical health care for those who live with serious mental illness.
Position paper
AMA’s plan to improve access to GPs
This document outlines practical and implementable solutions to support GPs to spend more time with their patients, provide more care, and deliver better health outcomes though comprehensive and evidence-based care.
Guide
Australian evidence-based clinical guideline for ADHD: summary of recommendations
The 'Australian evidence-based clinical practice guideline for ADHD' is for the identification, diagnosis and treatment of people with ADHD. This resource has been prepared to assist clinical practitioners with interpreting recommendations contained within the guidelines.
Report
Psychological injury in the New South Wales healthcare and social assistance industry: a retrospective cohort study
This research shows that healthcare and social assistance workers are twice as likely to file a workplace compensation claim for psychological injuries, compared to a similar dataset of workers in all non-healthcare industries, including construction, retail and law-enforcement services.
Fact sheet
Cancer in rural Australia
This fact sheet outlines some key statistics regarding cancer and patient health outcomes in rural and remote areas.
Journal article
Why do we not follow lifesaving rules? Factors affecting nonadherence to COVID-19 prevention guidelines in Indonesia: healthcare professionals' perspectives
This study aimed to understand Indonesian healthcare professionals' (HCPs) perceptions and experiences regarding barriers to both HCP and community adherence to COVID-19 prevention guidelines in their social life. This qualitative study employed in-depth interviewing as its method for primary data collection. Results demonstrated that HCP...
Report
Contemporary community pharmacy practice: white paper
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has launched its first contemporary community pharmacy practice white paper, which highlights three key elements of consideration which form the foundation of a viable and sustainable contemporary community pharmacy practice.
Guide
Ahpra and National Boards regulatory guide
This guide sets out how Ahpra and the National Boards manage notifications about the health, performance and conduct of practitioners under Part 8 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law.
Report
Administration of registration and notifications by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and related entities under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
This inquiry report focuses on ongoing and emerging issues experienced by health practitioners and notifiers with registrations and notifications, what has been done to address these issues by AHPRA, the national boards, and related regulatory bodies, and what more can be done to improve processes...
Briefing paper
Transforming the genomics workforce to sustain high value care
Genomics, where all a person’s genes are examined, as well as the interactions of those genes with each other, is proving a powerful tool for medicine. This report explores some of the challenges currently facing this rapidly evolving sector.
Strategy
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce strategic framework and implementation plan 2021–2031
The target of this plan is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to represent 3.43% of the national health workforce by 2031. This matches the expected percentage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the working population. Governments and the Aboriginal and Torres...
Report
Report on public hearing 10: Education and training of health professionals in relation to people with cognitive disability
This report makes 9 findings and 12 recommendations in relation to the education and training of health professionals across Australia including nurses, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists and speech pathologists.
Journal article
Sustainability of healthcare professionals’ adherence to clinical practice guidelines in primary care
Sustainability of adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) represents an important indicator of the successful implementation in the primary care setting. Aim: To explore the sustainability of primary care providers’ adherence to CPGs after receiving planned guideline implementation strategies, activities, or programmes. Methods: Cochrane Central...
Report
Nursing safe staffing review
This report reviews the implementation, effectiveness and impact of the Care Capacity Demand Management (CCDM) Programme.
Policy report
Tackling the inverse care law
This report reviews attempts to tackle inequities in the supply of general practice services in England over the past 30 years. The report looks at policies on general practice funding, workforce, premises, contracts and commissioning.
Report
State of the disability sector 2021
This report finds that frustration, uncertainty, and confusion are the hallmarks of the sector at this time. There are ongoing workforce issues, concerns over pricing, COVID-19, and a very uncertain policy environment for providers.
Report
Working together for client wellbeing: an outcome of health justice partnership
Health justice partnership brings legal help into healthcare settings and teams to more effectively address intersecting health and legal problems in the lives of shared clients. This paper explores wellbeing as one expressed outcome of health justice partnership.
Guide
National safety and quality primary and community healthcare standards
These standards have been developed for services that deliver health care in a primary and/or community setting. They are person-centred, and describe the processes and structures that are needed to deliver safe and high-quality health care.
Fact sheet
Intellectual disability: person-centred care
This fact sheet provides information to support clinicians to provide better health care for people with intellectual disability. It focuses on person-centred care strategies.
Fact sheet
Intellectual disability: governance
This fact sheet provides information to support better health care for people with intellectual disability. It identifies the clinical governance system essential for person-centred care for people with intellectual disability.
Fact sheet
Intellectual disability: comprehensive care
Focusing on the coordinated delivery of health care that is aligned to a person’s goals of care and healthcare needs, with consideration of the effect of the person’s health issues on their life and wellbeing, this fact sheet provides information to support clinicians to provide...