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The Tasmanian Medical Workforce Project aims to enhance Tasmania's ability to provide effective healthcare services. It focuses on profiling the medical workforce, informing decision-making, and ensuring sustainability. The project involves critical analysis of data sources, literature review, stakeholder consultation, and making recommendations for workforce improvement. Relevant local works include DHHS Health Workforce Strategic Framework and UTAS Medical Graduates Outcomes Research. Key themes being addressed are current workforce, training, future opportunities, quality & safety, and reform. By analyzing medical practitioners' demographics, roles, and distribution, the project seeks to achieve evidence-informed policy and planning for better health outcomes in Tasmania.
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Medical workforce planning dynamics Demand side Supply side Aging workforce Maldistribution Rural shortages Workforce ‘casualisation’ Generational change More graduates • Ageinghealth consumer • Declining fertility rate • Increasing burden of disease • New treatments and technologies (including pharmaceuticals) • Changing models of care • Financial constraints
DHHS Strategic Context Our vision • High quality, safe services for the people of Tasmania when they need them, so they can live well and live longer. Our mission • Improve the health and wellbeing of patients, clients and the Tasmanian community through a sustainable, high quality and safe health and human services system. Project Aim • “To enhance Tasmania’s ability to provide effective, appropriately resourced medical healthcare services to all Tasmanians”
Project Objectives • Profile Tasmania’s medical workforce • composition, distribution and demographic attributes of Tasmania’s medical workforce, including participation trends • Inform efforts to ensure Evidence base to inform decision making and the sustainability of Tasmania’s medical workforce. • Make recommendations by WHEN? • Workforce profile template for DHHS
Scope • Critical analysis of existing and available quantitative and qualitative data sources • Review of relevant literature • Stakeholder consultation • Benchmarking • Recommendations (Dec 2014)
Relevant local work • DHHS Health Workforce Strategic Framework • DHHS Nursing workforce planning project • DHHS Allied Health Practitioner workforce planning project • UTAS Medical graduates outcomes research/ Rural Clinical School graduate research • Medicare locals: GP census reporting
Information Sources • Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) • Medical Board Australia (MBA) • Health Workforce Australia (HWA) • DHHS HR Systems
Consultation process • Invitation extended to key stakeholders both in public and private sector. • Extensive consultation process • Identification of key themes and issues including; • Current Workforce • Training • Future Opportunities • Quality & Safety • Reform
Medical Practitioners: Age range & Gender 2012 *Tasmanian figures have been multiplied by 100 for scaling purposes
Tasmanian Medical Practitioners: Principal role & Gender Source- HWA database enquiry 2012
Tasmanian Health OrganisationsTotal registered medical practitioners Total Medical Workforce: 246 Total Medical Workforce: 537 Total Medical Workforce: 1169
Benchmarking: South Australia Note: Headcount is not adequate as a tool to assess workforce supply.
Average Hours SA 42 Hours Per week Males Females 45 37 Tasmania 41 Hours Per week Males Females 43 38 * Based on self reported information obtained thought the medical workforce survey based on reporting over a 1 week period. Please consider data with caution.
Outputs • A critical analysis of best available data • Comprehensive reporting and profiling on the medical workforce in Tasmania • Benchmarking based on best available information and data • Critical analysis of approaches to workforce modelling • Outcomes and analysis of issues from stakeholder consultations • Recommendations
Outcomes • Strategic medical workforce modelling • Evidence-informed policy and planning • Potential for productivity gains • Medical workforce intelligence • Better understanding of regional issues • Better supported workforce • Better health outcomes
Your ideas? • What are the main considerations affecting future medical workforce? • What ideas could impact positively on medical workforce?