Data and Planning
A strong evidence base is an essential foundation of good policy. Detailed research can help to inform future policy directions and prompt initiatives to improve the quality and scope of data collections.
Over the coming years, Victorian health services and training providers will begin to encounter substantial increases in the numbers of healthcare students moving through the education system as a result of State and Commonwealth Government workforce development initiatives. Considerable planning will be required to effectively manage such growth and to ensure that adequate clinical placement opportunities exist to accommodate the additional students.
Developing a more extensive understanding of both supply and demand for clinical placements, and a more strategic, statewide approach to its planning, will be crucial to meeting the overall requirement for placements, increasing the diversity of settings in which such placements occur, and supporting activity-based funding models.
Improved data and evidence processes are a key element of the Victorian Government's strategy to improve clinical placement capacity and delivery across the state. This involves undertaking and supporting research to inform future directions in clinical placements and associated training; initiatives to improve the quality and scope of data collections; establishment of joint planning processes and ongoing linkages to budget processes. These data collection activities provide an evidence base from which to plan for future growth in student numbers.
For further information about Victoria's data, planning and research activities to date, see below.
- Overview - Scoping Projects
An overview of scoping projects that map clinical placement activity in Victoria. - Scoping Reports by Discipline
Details of scoping projects across medicine, nursing and allied health professions. Includes final reports.