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overview
The 5th Annual National Health Workforce Summit returns in 2026, 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.
Call for Papers
We encourage you to register your interest to speak, and/or nominate a colleague! Please include the following information:
- Name, job title, organisation
- Presentation title
- Short synopsis or 2-3 bullet points explaining your main discussion points (50 words max.)
- Would you like to join a panel discussion? Please list your topic suggestions
- Would you like to facilitate a workshop? Please suggest workshop topics
To submit and for any queries, please contact:
Irene Amo
Senior Conference & New Product Manager
E: [email protected]
T: +61 2 9080 4321
(Deadline: Friday, 17th April 2026)
2026 Speakers
Dr Manjit Sekhon
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Medical Officer, Gidgee Healing
Cazna Luke
Tumu Whakarae - Chief Executive Officer, Kia Ora Hauora, New Zealand
Luke Donnan
Course Director - Podiatric Medicine, Charles Sturt University
Sam Avitaia
Manager Regional Campuses, University of Wollongong
Chris King
Executive Director Allied Health, Central Adelaide Local Health Network
Emma Vo
Director Allied Health Workforce Reform, Central Adelaide Local Health Network
Dr Alice Hucker
Senior Clinical Psychologist & Educator, The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Isla Woidt
Strategic Lead Workplace Wellbeing Partnerships, Commission on Excellence & Innovation in Health, SA Health
Pricing
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:
David Espitia
Sponsorships and Exhibitions Consultant
+61 2 9080 4311
[email protected]
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
17 - 18 Aug 2026
Crown Promenade Melbourne
8 Whiteman St
Southbank VIC 3006
+61 (03) 9292 8888
contact
Still have a question?
General Information & Registration
Customer Service
02 9080 4307
[email protected]
Speaking Enquiries
Irene Amo
Senior Conference & New Product Manager
+61 2 9080 4321
[email protected]
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
David Espitia
Sponsorships and Exhibitions Consultant
+61 2 9080 4311
[email protected]
Marketing & Media Enquiries
Alys Pryde
Marketing Manager
[email protected]