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The 4th Annual National Health Workforce Summit returns in 2025, bringing together leading voices and fresh ideas to solve one of the biggest issues facing Australia’s healthcare system — our workforce. This year for the first time, we will be co-locating a new event – the Healthcare Workplace Safety Conference.
The conference aims to explore innovative solutions and strategies to enhance the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of the healthcare workforce, ensuring that it meets the evolving needs of the workforce. The summit will provide a platform for attendees to engage in thought-provoking discussions, exchange ideas, and establish collaborative networks.
Why Attend?
- Solution-focused panels and keynotes
- Action-oriented case studies and challenge clinics
- Peer learning through interactive roundtable workshops
- Strategic insights from thought leaders, tech experts and frontline professionals
Co-located with:
🛡️ Healthcare Workplace Safety Conference
Expand your learning and collaboration opportunities by accessing sessions that focus on workforce wellbeing, occupational violence, psychosocial risk management, and creating mentally healthy workplaces.
Speakers
Natalie Bekis
Assistant Secretary, Workforce Planning and Strategies Branch, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Dr Shannon Nott
Executive General Manager – Health & Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer, Royal Flying Doctor Service (South Eastern Section)
A/Prof Jared Watts
RANZCOG Vice President Elect and Board Member, Chair of RANZCOG Workforce Working Group
Dilani Bamford
Primary Health Coordinator – Workforce Development, Healthy North Coast
Chris Robertson
Executive Director, Strategy, Policy and Health Workforce, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
Dr Jessica Dean
Intensive Care Specialist, Eastern Health
Dr Neel Gobin MBBS
Regional Director of Medical Services, Hunter New England LHD
Dr Claire Quilliam
Rural Nursing and Allied Health Research Fellow, Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne
A/Prof Alicia Martin
Director of Allied Health and Support Services, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dr Mpilwenhle Mthunzi
General Manager and Director of Nursing, The Royal Children's Hospital
Robyn Peel
Director Education and Learning, Western Health
Donna Burns
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Indigenous Doctor’s Association (AIDA)
Ingrid Sivertsen
Associate Director, Primary Health Programs, Healthy North Coast
Belinda Hibble
Director of Emergency Services, Barwon Health
Cate Cannon
Quality & Safety Manager, Belmont Hospital
Prof Tina Brock
Director Collaborative Practice Centre, University of Melbourne
Aisling Smith
Founder & NeuroInclusion Expert, NeuroEmpowerment Solutions
Donna Gleisner
General Manager, Career Pathways Program, Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)
Leanne Ovington
Nurse Manager Workforce and Planning, Southern NSW Local Health District
Kim Ashwin
Senior Strategist, Australian Medical Council
Jen Desrosiers
Researcher, Australian Medical Council
A/Prof Kudzai Kanhutu
Dean of the College and Interim Executive General Manager, Policy and Advocacy, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Philippa Gately
Senior Manager, Workforce Planning & Prioritisation, Capital Health Network (CHN)
Jasmine Glennan
Senior Manager – Primary Care, WentWest, Western Sydney Primary Health Network (WSPHN)
Dr Kym Jenkins AM
Consultant Psychiatrist, Founding Member and Board Chair HandnHand Peer Support, Past Chair, CPMC, Past President, RANZCP
Dr Meiri Robertson
Director of the Fetal Medicine Unit, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children
Dr Ramya Raman
RACGP Vice-President & Chair, RACGP Western Australia
Maria Dore
Nurse Manager/ADON, , Nursing & Midwifery Workforce Unit - Albury Wodonga Health
Monita Mascitti-Meuter
Inclusion Diversity Equity Lead, St Vincent’s Health Australia
Lisa Collison
General Manager Research & Innovation, Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)
Dr Sharmila Chandran
President-elect, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
A/Prof Kylie Vuong
Associate Professor in General Practice at the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Melbourne
Valerie Ramsperger
Director, Medical Workforce policy and Strategy, Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Jason Micallef
Custom Education Business Development Lead and Program Director, University of Melbourne
Dr Paul Eleftheriou
Principal and Co-Lead of Digital Health, Nous Group
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
Reconnect and re-engage with your industry peers at the National Health Workforce Summit.
There are many opportunities for networking including social events such as the annual networking drinks, refreshment breaks and lunches, making this not just a conference… but an all encompassing industry “experience”.
Event sponsorship or exhibiting will allow your organisation to:
- Build relationships with potential and existing clients
- Generate leads from a high-level, targeted audience
- Close sales in a more personal manner than via phone
- Demonstrate your product in person
- Network with the industry
- Build brand awareness
To see what is on offer please contact:
Lily Doherty
Sponsorship Manager
E: [email protected]
T: +61 (2) 9080 4340
Video Highlight
Insights
What can we do to support the healthcare workforce in rural, regional and remote areas?
While a national shortage of healthcare workers is being felt across Australia, nowhere is doing it tougher than the country’s rural, regional and remote communities.
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Simple fixes to the healthcare workforce crisis
Statistics around the future of Australia’s workforce have sent shock-waves through the already overburdened sector, but there may be some simple strategies to overcome them, according to Dr Joseph Occhino of Queensland Health.
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How to channel more medical graduates into primary healthcare
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How digital health can relieve our healthcare workforce crisis
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Renewed focus on nurse and midwife safety needed during COVID-19, says ANMF President
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The WHO’s COVID-19 Risk Communication Package for Healthcare Facilities
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Providing a safe environment for hospital staff, patients and visitors
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Safety And Security Risks in Hospitals
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Dealing with agitated patients: Balancing staff safety and duty of care to the patient
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Event Code Of Conduct
We want everyone who comes to our events to have a great experience. This code explains our expectations and rules, which includes general good practice behaviour, and how to report anything witnessed or experienced that goes against them. Read our Event Code of Conduct here.
Sustainability
Our Commitment to Sustainability
Our purposeful and informed content incorporates commitments for sustainability within our events. In Australia, we are committed to running our events in an environmentally and socially responsible way. We also want to go further and inspire sustainable development for the industries we serve. Bringing together diverse eco-systems providing a platform for decision makers, industry leaders and entrepreneurs to implement widespread change.
Moving Faster Forward with Informa Connect
Across Informa Connect we are focusing on the short and long-term sustainability impacts we have on customers and colleagues alongside the communities we work in.
We recognise that it’s not just about the way we produce our events and products but recognising that we have a role to play in providing a space to work in partnership together with our markets to inspire the sustainable development of the industries we serve. Explore our work, including our latest sustainability reports and Faster Forward initiatives with the link below.
when & where
18 - 19 Aug 2025
NOVOTEL MELBOURNE ON COLLINS
270 Collins Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000
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contact
Still have a question?
General Information & Registration
Customer Service
02 9080 4307
[email protected]
Speaking Enquiries
Frankie Brewer
GM – Health & Life Sciences
[email protected]
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
Lily Doherty
Sponsorship Manager
02 9080 4340
[email protected]
Marketing & Media Enquiries
Libbie Sinclair
Marketing Manager
[email protected]