Health Workforce Australia
HWA
2010 – August 2014
National health workforce agency, jointly funded through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), that planned the future health workforce, funded clinical training places and ran workforce innovation and reform programs.
How it came into existence
Established in 2010 as a body corporate under the Health Workforce Australia Act 2009, implementing the 2008 COAG National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform. It took over the work of the National Health Workforce Taskforce, an intergovernmental body of health ministers' officials.
Legislation: Health Workforce Australia Act 2009
Changes during its life
- 18 September 2013Moved to the Health portfolio when the Department of Health and Ageing became the Department of Health.
How it ended
Abolished in August 2014 by the Health Workforce Australia (Abolition) Act 2014, following a 2014–15 Budget decision; its health workforce planning, clinical training and reform functions, programmes, assets and records were transferred to the Department of Health.
- Health workforce planning and programs
Main functions
- National health workforce planning and projections
- Clinical training funding for health students
- Health workforce innovation and reform programs
- Expanded scopes of practice and new workforce models
- International recruitment and retention of health professionals
Where it sits
Last in the portfolio of Department of Health.
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Sources
Government records and websites
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