The Australia Institute

On the need for additional health care workers, Mark Butler says:

We added 17,000 new doctors to the system in the last two years. The biggest number in over a decade. But we need more. This year we’re training more junior doctors to become GPs than we have ever done in Australia. But we need more. So we’re making it easier to recruit doctors from GPs in particular, from jurisdictions we’re very confident in, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, where we know their training regimes are pretty much exactly the same as ours. We need more doctors. It’s not just affordability, as important as it is, we need a better supply of doctors and nurses and midwives and so many other allied health professionals.