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Lack of workforce development progress over the past 30 years results in serious workforce shortages. The MTB is disestablished, and the Clinical Training Agency Board is established ‘to unify workforce planning’. Its name is changed to Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) and it is given an expanded role to reflect a national focus. While it succeeds in improving health workforce intelligence, it is not so successful in addressing workforce problems, and fails to create a clear strategy, or provide sector leadership.
HWNZ is restructured to become the Health Workforce Directorate. This is centralised within the Ministry of Health with a Health Workforce Advisory Board established to provide strategic oversight and sector leadership for New Zealand’s health workforce. A year later, the Health and Disability Services Review Interim Report is released and notes the lack of clarity on where responsibility sits and who is accountable for making sure the workforce pipeline is proactively managed over the short and long term.
The final report of the Health and Disability Services Review is published. No changes are recommended for the Health Workforce Advisory Board. The Review considers there has been fragmentation over the years and little progress made despite all the attempts to deal with workforce planning. The report notes the absence of a health and disability workforce plan and recommends that the Ministry of Health lead the development of a plan with a 10-15-year view. The Review believes that strong central leadership will be required.
BUILDING THE WORKFORCE PIPELINE, STOPPING THE DRAIN NOVEMBER 2020
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