Health and Disability Workforce Reports

Health and Disability Workforce Reports
August 2009

The following five reports on the health and disability workforce all broadly agree on the need to:

enable greater leadership for improvements in national and regional co-ordination to reduce the current duplication in workforce activities across the health and disability sector
strengthen health and disability workforce planning that is aligned to service delivery
balance long-term responses to workforce supply issues with the pragmatic tactics used by district health boards to meet their unique short-term workforce needs.

The Medical Training Board, the SMO Commission and the RMO Commission were asked to focus on the medical workforce, although the Medical Training Board report does make provision for the inclusion of other professions within its proposed structure. The Nursing Committee was asked to evaluate the merits of a nursing education and training board. The CTA Review group was asked to look at the wider health and disability workforce.

All five reports recommend a separate national entity to respond to the complexities of health and disability workforce training issues. The RMO Commission report also recommends the establishment of a separate single employer for RMOs.

View the reports below:

Medical Training Board:
Foundations of Excellence: Building Infrastructure for Medical Education and Training
Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Commission:
Treating People Well: Report of the Director-General of Health’s Commission on the Resident Medical Officer Workforce
Senior Medical Officer (SMO) Commission:
Senior Doctors in New Zealand: Securing the future. Report of the Director-General of Health’s Commission on Competitive and Sustainable Terms and Conditions of Employment for Senior Medical and Dental Officers Employed by District Health Boards*
Ministerial Task Group on Postgraduate Training and Education:
A review of how the training of the New Zealand health workforce is planned and funded: a proposal for a reconfiguration of the Clinical Training Agency
Committee on Strategic Oversight for Nursing Education:
A Nursing Education and Training Board for New Zealand

Related information

* The SMO Commission report was released on 3 July 2009.

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