Topp, Stephanie, Nguyen, Thi Anh Thu, and Elliott, Lana (2025) Beyond silos – health workforce policy needs more strategic approach: research. The Croakey, 10 December 2025.

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Abstract

Workforce challenges are one of the key health policy challenges facing governments and health services around Australia. Our new research suggests there is significant room to improve the development of coherent health workforce policies.

In Queensland alone, our analysis found 275 health workforce policies – governing everything from nurse workloads and industrial awards to medical student placements and allied health careers.

But quantity isn’t everything. The bigger issue is that these policies often operate in silos, with little coordination and no clear mechanism to track whether they’re addressing system-wide challenges.

Item ID:	90109
Item Type:	Article (Commentary)
Copyright Information:	© 2025 The author(s).
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2025 02:37
FoR Codes:	42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4203 Health services and systems > 420311 Health systems @ 100%
SEO Codes:	20 HEALTH > 2002 Evaluation of health and support services > 200205 Health policy evaluation @ 100%
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