Welcome to the Health Workforce website

Access to an appropriately skilled and available workforce is vital to the delivery of effective health services in Victoria. The Department of Human Service's involvement with the health workforce includes:

• Employment of staff in a wide range of service delivery, service co-ordination, policy and management roles.
• Service development and funding for health services which rely on the availability of an appropriate workforce.
• Support for a range of workforce initiatives that seek to ensure an adequate supply of appropriately qualified practitioners and match them to areas of need,
• An up-to-date and responsive regulatory framework for health practitioners in order to protect the public,
• Strategies to ensure the future sustainability of the health services workforce.

What's new

Area of Need Forum - On 23 June 2008 the Department of Human Services held a forum to discuss the development and application of the Area of Need policy in Victoria.
Area of Need forum - Discussion paper - 2008 (PDF file 177KB)
Area of Need forum - Forum notes - 2008 (PDF file 116KB)

Planning for growth in the Victorian medical workforce - June 2008 (PDF file 127KB)

Better Skills, Best Care Stage 1 Report - November 2007 (PDF 1.04mb)

Recruitment of international health care professionals to Victoria - strategic directions 2007-10
- Information, fact sheets and applications forms for international medical graduates (IMGs) and allied health professionals (AHPs).

Strengthening Medical Specialist Training Program - 2008
- Information about the program and application forms for 2008 funding.

Medical Scoping Report Update July 2007
- At the COAG meeting in July 2006, Victoria secured substantial increases in the number of undergraduate places in medicine, nursing and allied health.

Region of Choice
- a recruitment and support service for health professionals in regional Victoria

Health Professions Registration Act 2005
- the Act came into operation on 1 July 2007 and repealed the eleven separate health practitioner registration Acts previously in operation. The Act ensures that Victoria continues to be protected by the most efficient and up to date registration system for consumers and professionals alike, and positions Victoria for planned national health workforce reforms.

The Better Skills Best Care (BSBC) resource kit is now online!
- contains information for Health Services on implementing roles piloted through Stage One of BSBC.