Health Workforce Australia is developing a Rural and Remote Health Workforce Innovation and Reform (RRHWIR) Strategy that will provide  national guidance on future needs, reforms and initiatives to improve the health care services in rural and remote communities.

 

The RRHWIR Strategy will be a complementary document to Health Workforce Australia’s National Health Workforce Innovation and Reform Strategic Framework for Action and the National Training Plan. It will seek to:

  • promote better utilisation of existing workforce;
  • support optimal use of skills and workforce adaptability;
  • build workforce capacity for responding and adapting to changing demands in rural and remote communities.

 

A public consultation phase will be conducted throughout September and October 2011 in 19 metropolitan, regional, rural and remote locations. A draft background paper will be available for download from the HWA website from 29 August. Written submissions are required by 28 October 2011.

 

More information is here.