Released 20/06/2023 – Joint media launch

The ACT Government is constant to put money into our present and future well being workforce to enhance skilled alternatives and office circumstances, and to extend well being providers for Canberrans.

The 2023-24 Budget will make investments greater than $200 million over the following 4 years to ship extra help for well being staff, extra well being providers and higher resourcing for our well being system.

This contains over $122 million in staffing and resourcing to function the brand new Critical Services Building at Canberra Hospital, which can open in 2024.

We are persevering with to put money into long-term planning for our well being workforce alongside elevated coaching and help, in addition to enhanced profession pathways and a key concentrate on bettering the security and wellbeing of well being staff.

This important funding will proceed to develop our public well being system with greater than 80 extra docs, nurses, allied well being and help staff, that means a further 570 positions have been funded for the reason that 2020-21 Budget.

These investments exceed the extra 400 full time equal well being skilled positions we dedicated to over this time period of presidency and exhibit our ongoing dedication to delivering well being look after our rising neighborhood.

In specific, this Budget contains greater than $28 million over the following 4 years to extend providers and enhance working circumstances for our public well being workforce. These measures embrace:

• $2.2 million over 4 years for well being workforce planning initiatives to assist appeal to and retain the expert staff we’d like as our well being system continues to develop.
• $8.6 million over three years for enhancements to the working surroundings for Junior Medical Officers, together with longer contracts to supply job safety for graduating docs, extra studying positions, elevated pastoral care and improved coaching and improvement coordination.
• $1.25 million over three years for the continuation of the Indigenous Allied Health Australia Health Academy program within the ACT to extend our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander well being workforce, enhance cultural security in our providers, and ship higher instructional outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander highschool college students.
• $3.5 million over 4 years to proceed funding for the substitute and improve of nurse-call programs and duress alarms to help nurse security when offering care.
• $3 million in funding over three years to supply examine help funds for well being skilled college students enterprise an eligible diploma via an ACT college.
• $9.9 million over 4 years to spice up Canberra Hospital cleaners’ pay and set up a challenge crew to develop choices for insourcing providers throughout Canberra Health Services.

These investments in bettering and enhancing our healthcare workforce are vital to capitalise on our report funding in well being infrastructure throughout the Territory.

The ACT Government can be presently negotiating to finalise the following part of mandated minimal nurse/midwife to affected person ratios, which can additional increase the Government’s investments in security and workforce, with a big concentrate on ratios in maternity providers.

These initiatives type a part of the ACT Government’s report investments to ship on our plan for the ACT public well being system and our dedication to a extremely expert and valued workforce supported to ship high quality well being outcomes for our neighborhood.

Quotes attributable to ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr:

The ACT Government is making Canberra is a vacation spot of selection for public healthcare staff.  By investing in our workforce circumstances and our hospital and healthcare amenities we’re supporting working circumstances and environments that can appeal to and retain high-quality docs, nurses and different healthcare staff.

Quotes attributable to Minister for Health, Rachel Stephen-Smith:

Our healthcare staff are the guts and soul of the well being system. We are dedicated to their wellbeing and we all know that a greater supported workforce can ship even higher well being providers for Canberrans.

We are investing in helps throughout the workforce, primarily based on suggestions from the employees themselves – together with our junior docs.

This means investing in additional docs, nurses, allied well being professionals and well being care college students, whereas bettering the wages and circumstances of the cleaners who preserve Canberra Hospital operating.

– Statement ends –

Andrew Barr, MLA | Rachel Stephen-Smith, MLA
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