Neel Gobin (Chair), Esther Zhou (Events Director), Tabish Aleemullah (Policy Officer) and Chris Lemon (Public Relations Officer) had a very productive meeting today with Health Minister, Jillian Skinner.
Andrew Kirk (Minister's Chief of Staff) and Robyn Burley (NSW Health Director of Workforce Planning & Development) were also present.
We discussed the maldistribution of doctors in the NSW workforce that sees a lack of practising doctors in rural/regional networks. NSWMSC proposed a number of alternatives - including increased funding for vocational and pre-vocational training positions, expansion of rural clinical schools, scholarships and improvements to the NSW JMO Recruitment Strategy to tackle the ‘bottleneck’.
Andrew Kirk (Minister's Chief of Staff) and Robyn Burley (NSW Health Director of Workforce Planning & Development) were also present.
We discussed the maldistribution of doctors in the NSW workforce that sees a lack of practising doctors in rural/regional networks. NSWMSC proposed a number of alternatives - including increased funding for vocational and pre-vocational training positions, expansion of rural clinical schools, scholarships and improvements to the NSW JMO Recruitment Strategy to tackle the ‘bottleneck’.