allied health workforce
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Allied Health WorkforceChief Allied Health AdviserStrategic Control Workforce and Regulation
Allied Health Professions in DHHS
Audiology Dental therapy Dental prosthetics Dental hygiene Dietetics/nutrition Environmental health Medical and health physics Medical imaging Nuclear medicine Radiation therapy Medical librarian Medical science Occupational therapy
Optometry Orthoptics Orthotics and prosthetics Pharmacy Physiotherapy Podiatry Psychology Speech pathology Sonography Social work Counsellor (Chaplaincy)
Allied Health Services
Allied health professionals work in all DHHS service programs
Acute and community healthMental health Oral healthDisability child, youth and family servicesAged care and rehabilitationForensic mental healthAlcohol and drugsCancer screeningPopulation healthTas Ambulance
Allied Heath Service Sites
Allied health professionals work across a range of service sites:
• Acute hospitals• Regional hospitals• Community health centres• Integrated care centres• Multipurpose centres• Outreach services• Client homes• Education facilities• Local councils
Related support roles
• Assistants
Allied health Dental LaboratoryLibraryPharmacy
• Technicians
Laboratory
Pharmacy
Dental
Allied Health Training Programs
• UTAS offers: Medical science
Social work
Psychology
Pharmacy
Environmental health
Medical imaging
• VET offers: Allied health assistant –
generic, profession specific
Aged Care, rehabilitation and community assistant roles
Oral health – assistants, technicians
Pharmacy - assistants and technicians
Prosthetic technicians
Drivers for workforce data
• National and state demographics
• Tas health demographics
• Need for patient centred care at all levels of
health care
• New and emerging roles
• Efficiencies and costs
• Max use of skills in available workforce
Context for workforce mapping
• National: National Health Workforce Strategic Framework 2004 National Health Workforce Innovation and Reform
Strategic Framework for Action 2011 – 2015 The National Rural and Remote Health Workforce
Innovation and Reform Strategy AIHW Allied Health Workforce 2012 (National Health
Workforce Series Number 5) Mental and Primary Health Workforce Reform HWA Workforce Reform Agenda Grattan report
Context for workforce mapping
• TasmaniaCommission on Delivery of Health Services in
Tasmania
Tasmanian Health Workforce Strategy
(CAPABLE)
Making the most of our health workforce
• Full scope of practice – diffs with private and public eg x-ray requests
• Advanced scope• Extended scope – catching up with other states and
internationally • Evidence based practice• Support workforce – supervision and delegation
frameworks; full scope of practice• Clinical redesign projects impact• Health practitioner prescribing pathway
Workforce mapping AHPs in public health system
2003 Last mapped with 2002 data 19 professions, 969 staff over 763.91 FTE
2009 Tasmanian Allied Health & Oral Health
Workforce Study 22 professions, statewide, survey (45%)
2014 DHHS Workforce mapping 28+ professions, around 1450 staff, ?FTE
Methodology
• Establishment list
• Verification of the establishment
National information: ABS Professional associations HWA AIHW AHPRA
Challenges for mapping AHP workforce
• Number of professions and size of this workforce group in DHHS and THOs
• Registered and unregistered professions
• Disaggregation of the workforce – multiple sites and
services
• Titles and identifying AHPs in generic roles eg AH
professional
• Lack of data nationally and state – how to obtain
• Resourcing
Future challenges
• Maintaining small but critical professions –
training pathways, tertiary sector choices
• Overcoming cultural and professional barriers
• Increasing client access to services
• Maintaining safety and quality
• Credentialing for new scopes of practice
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