50,000 New Health Jobs
Type: Union News Subject: Student Info
1 May 2008
After more than a decade of under-investment in our health system, the Rudd Government is beginning to address problems with the planned introduction of up to 50,000 new vocational training places.
In what has been described as the single biggest injection of workers into the Australian health system in history, the Federal Government will target areas of chronic skills shortage such as nursing, dental health and Indigenous health.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Health Minister Nicola Roxon announced the plan at what was a largely health-dominated Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Adelaide.
'The Rudd Government recognises that addressing the health workforce crisis is critical to delivering better health services and to achieving long-term health reform,' the ministers said.
'[We are] investing in the health and education systems that are required to build a modern Australia that can meet the challenges of the future.'
The training places, to be created over the next three years, will roll out from January 2009. They will include enrolled nurses, dental health workers, allied health assistants, ambulance officers, and Aboriginal health workers.
State and Territory health ministers along with council health and productivity working groups have committed to work with Skills Australia to implement the training places.
Skills Australia will be asked to report to COAG in July 2008 on a method for allocating these priority places.
The vocational training places are part of the Rudd Government's commitment to provide 450,000 new vocational education and training places to address skill shortages in the economy.
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