Will health ministers act on proposals to solve health workforce challenges?
Allowing non-government health care services to play a greater role in the training of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and allied health professionals would go a long way to solving health workforce problems, Catholic Health Australia CEO Martin Laverty told a national summit hosted by New South Wales Health Minister Jillian Skinner to examine the recent medical internship shortage.
Mr Laverty said the shortage of intern places for last year's record number of medical graduates grabbed headlines, and had various health officials scrambling for answers – answers that Catholic facilities can offer.