Allied health
Alternative labels
Podiatry
Speech pathology
Allied healthcare
Audiology
Description
Allied health therapies includes evidence-based services provided by university qualified practitioners with specialised expertise in preventing, diagnosing and treating a range of conditions and illnesses and are not part of the medical, dental or nursing professions.
Strategy
Future focused primary health care: Australia’s primary health care 10 year plan 2022-2032
This plan was developed as a high-level response to the recommendations of the Primary Health Reform Steering Group, and an extensive series of consultations. The plan aims to support primary health care providers to embrace continuing advances in technology - in telehealth and virtual care, digital health and in other health care technologies.
Report
Hidden in plain sight: optimising the allied health professions for better, more sustainable integrated care
This report examines the evidence and identifies the critical changes that are key to designing a system with fully integrated allied health services aligned with the objectives of the health and disability system reforms.
Journal article
Australian Aboriginal techniques for memorization: translation into a medical and allied health education setting
It is clear from these studies that students in the medical and allied health professions expect that memorization will play a substantial role in their training, and they are receptive to learning techniques that can improve memory tasks. The students sampled in this work viewed training on this Aboriginal memorization method, in particular, as meaningful...
Report
Exploring participant experiences: a survey on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on NDIS, allied healthcare services and consumer experiences transitioning to telehealth
This report contains the finding of a national survey to investigate the experiences of NDIS participants, or their family members/carers, when accessing allied healthcare supports during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Report
Remote and Rural Indigenous Allied Health: community report
This report proposes approaches for co-design in developing and delivering culturally safe and responsive workforce models and services that are informed by community members, carers, organisations and current service providers.