There are recognised shortages in most health professions in Australia. This is evidence that previous attempts at health workforce planning have failed. This paper argues that one reason for such failure is the lack of appropriate structures for health workforce planning. It also suggests that Australia needs to move beyond planning for particular professions and that health workforce planning...

Health Workforce Australia (HWA) was established by the Council of Australian Governments through its 2008 National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform, as the national agency to progress health workforce reform and address the challenges of providing a skilled, innovative and flexible health workforce in Australia. The Australian Health Ministers' Conference commissio...

Primary argument The care‐giving responsibilities of a predominantly female workforce and the ageing of the nursing workforce worldwide means some nurses are choosing or need to work as casual employees in order to remain in the workforce. Historically, casuals have been viewed in a negative light particularly in discussions around commitment and continuity‐of‐care. Without a change in attitude...

This article examines issues facing the future health care workforce in Australia in light of factors such as population ageing. It has been argued that population ageing in Australia is affecting the supply of health care professionals as the health workforce ages and at the same time increasing the demand for health care services and the health care workforce.However, the picture is not that ...

This present article is titled E-governance and Cameroon universities management. Universities play a major role in creating successful management that addresses the problems of ambiguity laws, transparency, accountability, integrity, regulations workforce find ways to simplify procedures combat administrative challenges. Personnel has not performed expected standards understanding shifting new...

BACKGROUND Shortage and maldistribution of the health workforce is a major problem in the Thai health system. The expansion of healthcare access to achieve universal health coverage placed additional demand on the health system especially on the health workers in the public sector who are the major providers of health services. At the same time, the reform in hospital payment methods resulted i...

Workforce scheduling problems are typical constraint satisfaction problems in which different constraints must be fulfilled, like needed workforce per day, forbidden sequences of shifts, length of work and days-off blocks etc. There are two main variants of workforce schedules: rotating (or cyclic) workforce schedules and non-cyclic workforce schedules. In a rotating workforce schedule all empl...

O July 29, 2014, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report on the governance and financing of graduate medical education (GME).1 An important incidental finding of the IOM’s study was that the evidence base available to inform future directions for the substance, organization, and financing of GME is quite limited. The limited evidence reflects a systematic lack of research investment...

Aims/Objectives In a climate of workforce transition, enhanced specialisation and role transfer, it is timely to address the impact of workforce flexibility on practitioners in non-specialist roles. This study aimed to use podiatry as a case exemplar (as one of the Allied Health Professions) to explore the possible impact of workforce redesign policies on role boundaries on generalist podiatris...