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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.
As demand increases and the system shifts, now is the time for practical, forward-focused conversations on how we strengthen, support and smartly structure our health workforce. The event will address how we tackle Australia’s current healthcare workforce challenges, particularly around the changes needed to create a sustainable workforce for the future.
With a focus on practical solutions, this year’s summit goes beyond diagnosing the problem and zeroes in on strategies delegates can implement in their own organisations. It will explore the innovations, tools, policy shifts and workforce models that are actively improving recruitment, retention, performance and wellbeing across the country.
Join Healthcare Executives across the healthcare landscape, HR Leaders, Allied and Community Health, Policymakers, Educators, Training Organisations, Federal and State Governments, Professional Medical Colleges, Digital Health Providers, and Clinical Managers for two days of hands-on learning, case studies, and challenge-solving workshops — all aimed at building a more resilient, flexible and future-ready workforce.
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
Key Themes & Topics Include:
- Nurse practitioners and allied health professionals – enabling full scope of practice
- Reimagining workforce models in aged care and community care
- Case studies across the healthcare landscape
- Expert panels featuring the Colleges
- Practical strategies to better use the existing workforce across all professions
- Data-driven workforce planning and predictive analytics
- Technology that saves time (not adds to it): automation, AI and practical implementation
- The future of the clinical trials workforce
- Supporting international medical graduates (IMGs) and overseas-trained professionals
- Creating workforce pipelines in outer metro and underserved areas
- Workforce strategies to tackle mental health shortages
- Pharmacy’s role in team-based primary care
- Organisational change for retention and morale
- Innovative onboarding and supervision models
- Real-world case studies from across metro, outer-metro and regional settings
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.
2024 Speakers
Monita Mascitti-Meuter
Inclusion Diversity Equity Lead, St Vincent's Health Australia
A/Prof Rex Prabhu PSM
Executive Medical Director, Swan Hill District Health, Victoria
India-Rose Avery
Workforce Planning and Prioritisation Lead, GPEx
Dr Matthew Fisher
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Society of Anaesthetists
Dr Nicole Higgins
President, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Prof Jennifer Martin
President & Chair, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Dr Zoran Bolevich
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Chris Robertson
Executive Director of Strategy, Policy and Health Workforce, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
Naomi Hebson
Executive Director People & Governance, Children's Health Queensland
Prof Clair Sullivan
Director, Queensland Digital Health Centre
Dr Elizabeth Moore
President, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Dr Martina Mende
Board Member, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; Deputy Chair, RANZCOG Australian O&G Workforce Working Group
Michelle Sanders
Director Lived-Living Expertise, Queensland Mental Health Commission
Sally Moten
Partner, Workplace Relations & Safety, Lander & Rogers
Sascha Baldry
Co-Chair, Community Paramedicine Working Group
A/Prof Vinay Lakra
Divisional Director, Mental Health, Northern Health
Stephanie Clota
Chief Executive Officer, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Dr Marten Howes
Staff Specialist Emergency Physician & Director Clinical Training, Bunbury Hospital, Western Australia Country Health Services – South West
Abiola Akinbiyi
Director, NWMPHN & Board Director, Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria
Kim Hanna
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
Hediyeh Vahdat
Managing Director, Linéaire Projects, Non Executive Director, Karitane, Academic, School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Academic, School of Population Health and Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of NSW, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Royal North Shore Hospital
Luke Elias
Director, Primary Care Impact & Partnerships, Healthy North Coast
Dr Susan Nancarrow
Chief Executive Officer, HealthWork International & Adjunct Professor, Southern Cross University
Dr Jane Douglas
Strategic Lead Workforce & Professional Officer, Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation
Kathryn Baird
Director Skilled Migration Services, Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council
Juliet Aryana
Head of Industry Engagement, AGSM @ UNSW Business School
Emma Peden
Manager Skilled Migration, Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council
Alison Tattersall
Manager Primary Care Workforce, Hunter New England & Central Coast Primary Health Network
Dr Neel Gobin
Regional Director of Medical Services, Hunter New England Local Health District (NSW)
Jon Barrett
Senior Customer Success Architect, Microsoft ANZ
Dr Sarah Michael
Director of Psychological Wellbeing, MDOK Program, Sydney Local Health District
A/Prof Megan Cahill
Associate Professor, National Centre for Health Workforce Studies, Australian National University
2024 Agenda
Pricing
Workshop
POST-CONFERENCE HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
23 October 2024 | 9:00AM – 12:00PM
Venue: Swissotel Sydney
How to train and develop a workforce which meets the needs of diverse communities
- Participants will step through an awareness workshop which focusses on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion concepts (eg: unconscious bias and intersectionality)
- Caring for patients/residents of CaLD background
- Understanding cross-cultural communication styles, as well as strategies to effectively manage and work in a multicultural team environment
Workshop Facilitator: Monita Mascitti-Meuter, Inclusion Diversity Equity Lead, St Vincent’s Health Australia
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:
Danielle Newman
Senior Business Development Manager
E: [email protected]
T: +61 (2) 9080 4318
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
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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.
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General Information & Registration
Customer Service
02 9080 4307
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Speaking Enquiries
Irene Amo
Senior Conference Producer
+61 415038730
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Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
Danielle Newman
Senior Business Development Manager
02 9080 4318
[email protected]
Marketing & Media Enquiries
Libbie Sinclair
Marketing Manager
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