Perspectives Brief - Perspectives Brief - no: 32 24 July 2024 - South Australia oral health workforce

Council of Australian 2008 Governments agreed on The HWA’s goal was to be provide more effective, National Partnership streamlined and integrated clinical training Agreement on Hospital arrangements to support workforce reform initiatives, and Health Workforce to support health workforce research and planning and Reform and the Health to further new workforce models and reforms Workforce Australia. [...] 0-2 years old South Australia oral health workforce projections barriers 9 Perspective brief no: 32 Policy Issue Figure 1: Inflows and outflows of SA oral health workforce In 2022, SA Dental attempted to determine In addition, quantifying both dental assistants the inflow and outflow of potential oral health and technicians have only been possible in the workforce and modelled and predicted future. [...] Immediate Problem Solving It is important to ensure these data collection The most pressing concern facing the SA and systems are able to be used across sectors and national oral health sector is the distribution of governments, allowing for integration of clinicians to regional, rural and remote regions education data, employment records and even and to the public sector. [...] significant in the Monash Modified Model (Australian Government, Department of This can be achieved by funding, mandating Health and Aged Care, 2021) Level 6 and 7 and incentivising collaboration of public and shown in the data extracted from Ahpra private sectors and education sectors to share displaying the distribution of oral health data and insights. [...] development efforts to regional, rural and remote areas and to the oral health sector, Crucially, this ensures the workforce, both benchmarked against work done for other clinical and administrative has the knowledge health sector workforce such as medicine and and understanding of the importance of nursing: workforce data records.