The challenges for our overseas workforce Taking care

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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