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Primary Health Care Workforce
The Number of Workers
- ATTRACTING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTO PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: STRATEGIES FOR RECRUITMENT
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Stream Six: Thistlethwaite J, Shaw T, Kidd M, Leeder S, Burke C, Corcoran K
Workforce projections suggest a fall in the number of full-time equivalent general
practitioners during the next decade unless more doctors choose general practice as a
career. Australia is already experiencing a shortage of GPs and the crisis in the medical
workforce is even more pronounced in rural and remote areas. This paper explores the factors
that affect career and practice location choice of medical students and junior doctors.
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- REVIEW OF
PRIMARY & COMMUNITY CARE NURSING 1 Page
Stream Six: Keleher H,
Parker R,
Abdulwadud O,
Francis K,
Segal L,
Dalziel K
Health care reform is driven by ageing populations and resulting increasing levels of
chronic and complex illness, reduction in access to general practitioners and workforce
shortages. There is also pressure to improve accessibility of services to underserved
groups and communities. Strengthening the role of primary health care and prevention
to enhance individual and population health outcomes is important to address the rise
in chronic and preventable conditions. Nurses are becoming increasingly central to the
delivery of primary health care in Australia. Nurses working in primary health care can
help address workforce shortages, improve access to health care and contribute to the
management of chronic conditions and illness prevention.
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- IMPROVING PRIMARY HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE RETENTION IN SMALL RURAL AND REMOTE COMMUNITIES – HOW IMPORTANT IS ONGOING EDUCATION & TRAINING? 1 Page
Stream Six: Humphreys J, Wakerman J, Wells R, Kuipers P, Jones J, Entwistle P, Harvey P
This study examines the contribution of continuing professional development (CPD/CPE) to enhancing workplace attractiveness and improving retention of primary health care workers in small rural and remote communities, the best way of providing effective education and training, and the costs and benefits associated with providing education and training.
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Extension funding: Stream 12
In 2008 this team was awarded funding to further develop this research.
Optimising the Workforce
- OPTIMISING SKILL MIX IN THE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE FOR THE CARE OF OLDER AUSTRALIANS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 1 Page
Stream Six: Zwar N, Dennis S,
Griffiths R,
Perkins D,
May J,
Hasan I,
Sibbald B,
Caplan G,
Harris M
Australia has an ageing population resulting in demand for extensive and comprehensive care of chronic disease. This demand has required new thinking about primary health care workforce re-modelling to meet the health care needs of community dwelling older Australians.
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- OPTIMISING THE
PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE: HOW CAN EFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR COMMON
MENTAL DISORDERS BEST BE DELIVERED IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE? 1 Page
Stream Six: Moulding R, Blashki G, Gunn J, Mihalopoulos C, Pirkis J, Naccarella L, Joubert L
The Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care and Better Access policy initiatives have
expanded consumer access to psychological treatments. These programs fund treatments
provided by health professionals including general practitioners (GPs), psychologists,
social workers, occupational therapists and Indigenous health workers.
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Findings/Policy Options (3 pages)
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Extension funding: Stream 12
In 2008 this team was awarded funding to further develop this research.
- THE
CONTRIBUTION OF APPROACHES TO ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE IN OPTIMISING THE PRIMARY CARE
WORKFORCE 1 Page
Stream Six: Dunbar J,
Reddy P,
McAvoy B,
Carter R,
Schoo A,
Colgan S,
Weller D,
Torneus I
Australia is facing long term workforce shortages coupled with a population increasingly
burdened with chronic disease. The National Chronic Disease Strategy recognises the central
role general practice has to play in the prevention, detection and management of chronic
illness.
Implementing the strategy will require considerable change in the way general practice teams
work. Organisational development (OD) is used in businesses to improve how individuals and
organisations perform in achieving organisational objectives.
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- OPTIMISING RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE WORKFORCE: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT**
Hub Research, Jeon, YH
Australia’s ageing population together with the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and multi-morbidity are placing the aged care sector under increasing pressure and impacts directly on those working in residential aged care settings. Strategies targeted at those in leadership and management positions in the residential aged care workforce will contribute to optimising the effectiveness of this workforce in the face of these pressures. This review systematically explores leadership and management development in aged care.
**Note: This report is available on the APHCRI Article Management System only. Users must request a password to access the material. By requesting a password, the user agrees not to disseminate or quote the material without the written consent of the author.
The Place of Generalism
- THE EXPANDING ROLE OF GENERALISTS IN RURAL & REMOTE HEALTH: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 1 Page
Stream Six: Pashen D,
Chater B,
Murray R,
Sheedy V,
White C,
Eriksson L,
De La Rue S,
Du Rietz M
Rural and remote communities have poorer health outcomes and health care access than urban populations. Doctors are in short supply. Generalist practitioners in rural and remote areas apply a broad scope of clinical practice. Despite policy support for generalism and initiatives to sustain skills, trends towards sub-specialisation, diminishing practice scope among General Practitioners and loss of generalist specialists continue.
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- WHAT IS
THE PLACE OF GENERALISM IN THE 2020 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TEAM? 1 Page
Stream Six: Gunn J, Naccarella L, Palmer V, Kokanovic R, Pope C, Lathlean J
Primary health care is a domain of reform and change. To maintain a cost-effective,
equitable and accessible health care system, policy and strategies must address growing
health system complexities. These include workforce shortages, technological advances, an
ageing population, rising rates of chronic disease, increases in co-morbidity and growing
multi-morbidities. A single-disease focussed approach is not sufficient. Should the
generalist be developed to address these multiple issues? What is generalism and its place
within the 2020 primary health care team?
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