A strong focus on multidisciplinary teams, and innovative and targeted CPD events were among the key takeaways from the Annual National Health Workforce Summit, for SWSPHN’s Primary Care Workforce Manager Bianca Walsh (pictured).
The summit, held in Melbourne on 18 and 19 August, brought together representatives from PHNs, hospital and health services, frontline clinicians, managers, regulators and insurers, to share ideas and solutions to challenges facing our healthcare workforce.
It included: solution-focused panels and keynote speakers, action-oriented case studies, peer learning through interactive roundtable workshops, and strategic insights from thought leaders, tech experts and frontline professionals.
Bianca said the summit explored general workforce considerations such as burnout, flexibility in work hours, ways to facilitate staff retention and navigating health literacy in the age of AI. She said digital health upskilling, skills-based CPD planning, and leadership and progression pathways were also areas of interest.
“The summit was an excellent opportunity to stay up-to-date on workforce trends, exchange ideas with other PHNs and healthcare professionals more broadly, and take away valuable insights which we’ll be able to apply to our work supporting the primary care workforce in South Western Sydney.”