Taking care Ahpra

This episode of Ahpra’s Taking Care podcast examines the path overseas health workers must tread when wanting to work in Australia’s health system.
With the final recommendations of a wide-ranging review into Australia’s regulatory settings for international health workers being handed down soon, we look at what solutions are on the table, why they are needed, and what impact they may have in the areas health workers are most wanted.

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Our focus for this episode is the varied experiences of health practitioners who choose to move to Australia to live and work. Host Susan Biggar joins Dr Rekha Mangalore, General Medicine and Infectious Diseases physician, Dr Renee Kelsall, Chief Medical Officer at Bass Coast Health and Helen Townley, National Director, Policy & Accreditation at Ahpra. They discuss complications of changing countries and continuing your career here, the requirements of ensuring a safe and appropriate workforce. This conversation highlights how important it is to hear firsthand from the experience of people navigating the whole process, including their views on how we can improve it.
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Associate Professor Carmen Parter is a proud descendent of the Darumbal and Juru clans of the Birra Gubba Nation of Queensland with South Sea Islander heritage, the Tanna Island of Vanuatu. She has seen it all in her work in Australia’s healthcare system. She has hope that things are improving, and we can make our healthcare system culturally safe.
Now, she holds many roles, including Ahpra Board member, co-Founder and Director at the Learning Centre for Systemic Change and Research, was the inaugural Co-chair of the Indigenous Working Group of the World Federation of Public Health Association, a member of the Lowitja Institute member community, and Fellow of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives.
But, in this conversation we head back to beginning of her career...
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‘One of the most fundamental things is about trying to understand that a harmed person is a fragile person.'
Our first Taking care podcast episode of the year is with international guest Professor Rosalind Searle. Rosalind Searle is a Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Psychology at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. She is inaugural director of the EAWOP the (European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology) Impact Incubator.
Her research has examined trust in healthcare, specifically the matter of professional misconduct. She has examined in detail proven cases of sexual misconduct and abuse to reveal the moral mindsets that accompany these activities.
Speaking with host Susan Biggar, Professor Searle unpacks the areas where trust can be built – and eroded.
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What’s great about our rural and remote healthcare services and the people who work in them? A lot, and the conversation is just getting started with our two guests Faye McMillan, Deputy National Rural Health Commissioner and Richard Colbran, CEO NSW Rural Doctors Network. Host Tash Miles speaks with Faye and Richard about innovations and workarounds unique to rural and remote healthcare, and where there is opportunity for metropolitan health services to learn from what’s happening in rural/remote settings.
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As the guests in this latest episode of Taking care stress, the link between our health and access to safe healthcare and the impacts of climate change are undisputable. But what is the path forward?
Northern Territory specialist physician, Dr Simon Quilty, Melbourne obstetrician and gynaecologist and a member of Doctors for the Environment, Dr Ying Gu, and Canberra local and Professor of Health Equity and Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the Australian National University, Professor Sharon Friel, passionately detail their concerns, observations and what they see as the path forward.
Join for a discussion that includes the current impacts at a personal and community level and the structural changes needed to address the inequities exacerbates by climate change such as housing inequality.
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