7NEWS Australia published this video item, entitled “NSW student doctors boost to the health workforce | 7NEWS” – below is their description.
More than a thousand medical students will be given the opportunity of gaining hands-on experience working in hospitals each year in paid positions supporting doctors, under an innovative collaboration between universities and the NSW government.
Premier Dominic Perrottet said the assistant in medicine initiative was initially introduced in 2020 as a temporary workforce surge measure during COVID but it was so successful, it made sense for it to continue.
NSW Health will work with universities over the next 12 months to create a permanent program that can be integrated into curriculums and the health workforce. The NSW government is investing $883 million over the next four years to attract and retain staff in rural and regional NSW by transforming the way health clinicians are incentivised to work in the bush.
In addition, under a joint initiative with Victoria, the NSW government will deliver expanded urgent care services across NSW to relieve the demand on emergency departments.
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