Health workforce

Addressing issues of workforce is a crucial and ongoing requirement to building an equitable, safe and high quality mental health care system.  Issues affecting the Australian workforce include practitioner shortages and maldistribution, in addition to issues of flexibility and innovation.

Submissions and reports

• Review of standards for internship in the national registration and accreditation scheme (December 2012)
• Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Explanatory Notes for Psychiatry Items (October 2012)
• Review of accreditation arrangements for the medical profession (September 2012)
• Evaluation of the MHNIP – ATAPS Clinical Governance Framework (September 2012)
• National clinicians network discussion paper (September 2012)
• Review of the Health Services (Conciliation and Review) Act (1987) (August 2012)
• NSQHS Standards draft resources for consultation (August 2012)
• Submission into Inquiry into Workforce Participation by People with Mental Illness (November 2011)
• Response to the Victorian Govt Mental Health Workforce Development Strategy (October 2011)
• Response to National Health Workforce Innovations and Reform Strategic Framework for Action (May 2011)
• Registration, Accreditation and Support Processes for Overseas Trained Doctors (February 2011)
• Commonwealth audit of the health workforce shortage in rural and regional Australia (February 2008)
• Senate Inquiry into the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for Doctors and Other Health Workers including the response to the Exposure Draft of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 2009 (July 2009)
• Workforce survey 2008- internal RANZCP report (August 2010)
• Survey of the psychiatry workforce in Australia and New Zealand (August 2010)

Policy

• Psychiatrists as team members
• The Roles and Relationships of Psychiatrists
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health workers

For more information contact policy@ranzcp.org