• Industry leaders invited to
  healthcare workforce summit on August 7, 2023
• Summit to concentrate on future
  proofing WA’s medical and nursing workforce
• Complements complete
  recruitment actions already underway

The Cook Government will maintain a summit focusing
on the medical and nursing workforce by bringing collectively business leaders on
future proofing the State’s frontline well being and psychological well being workforce.

Health and Mental Health Minister
Amber-Jade Sanderson will convene the WA Health Workforce Summit on August 7,
2023 to concentrate on addressing nursing, midwifery and medical workforce challenges.

This will complement complete
recruitment actions already being undertaken by the Department of Health and
the hospitals, amid world workforce shortages.

The summit will probably be adopted by a sequence of
roundtables, focusing in on areas of excessive want, to ship sensible options.

Industry leaders together with peak our bodies,
unions, clinician coaching schools and registration our bodies will probably be invited to
take part within the solutions-driven dialogue, which can concentrate on modern
concepts to proceed to develop WA’s healthcare workforce into the longer term.

Bolstering the State’s well being and psychological
well being workforce to make sure it meets the wants of the group into the longer term
is a key precedence for the Cook Government.

The summit will complement ongoing recruitment actions already
underway, together with the greater than $28 million of recent attraction and retention
initiatives funded via the 2023-24 State Budget.

Comments attributed to Health; Mental Health Minister
Amber-Jade Sanderson:

“We need to
work with stakeholders who all have a lever into the workforce pipeline and the
capability to offer sensible and sustainable options to the challenges we
face immediately.

“Undeniably,
all of us have a collective duty and we need to be sure we’ve got the
correct mix of employees working in a versatile, secure and supportive atmosphere.

“The Cook Government, along with the
Health Department and the Health Service Providers, are already delivering a
complete suite of employees attraction and retention initiatives and have
grown WA’s public sector healthcare workforce FTE by 29 per cent since 2017.

“However, this
summit will invite business leaders to collaborate on further options to proceed
to foster a robust, devoted healthcare workforce and entice younger individuals to
take up a profession in drugs, particularly within the areas.