The timing of the workforce data available to the Alliance is limited by AHPRA’s annual registration renewal cycle and the subsequent process the Department of Health undertakes to cleanse, impute, produce and release this data. [...] Workforce location The address of each health professional has been geocoded by the Australian government Department of Health and Aged Care using the process described on their website.1 The location of primary practice is the preferred address reported. [...] iii See here for more information: iv In relation to the health workforce data available from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners noted the limitation of this “big data” due to its time lag at the public hearing on 4 November 2021 for the Parliamen. [...] 5 Number of health professionals The workforce data from the Australian government Department of Health and Aged Care deidentifies the number of health profes. [...] Health professionals excluded The Australian government Department of Health and Aged Care is the data custodian for information collected on health practitioners who are professionally registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).2 The RHWMT only presents data for these health professionals.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 2
- Data sources 2
- Table 1: Source of data in each map layer of the RHWMT 2
- Map layers 3
- Methodology 3
- Workforce: Clin FTE and Clin FTE/100,000 population 3
- Comparison to MM1 to generate deficit or surplus 4
- Median age at death 4
- Local Government Areas 4
- Modified Monash Model 4
- Long-term health conditions 5
- Local Government Areas 5
- Modified Monash Model 5
- Caveats 5
- Time lag in data 5
- Workforce location 5
- Number of health professionals 6
- Health professionals excluded 6
- References 7
