Resignations undermine efforts to recruit tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and midwives needed to relieve stress on the overburdened health system and staff new hospitals.
Victoria’s health workers have been resigning at the rate of more than 200 a week, potentially undermining state government efforts to recruit the tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and midwives needed to relieve stress on the overburdened system and staff new hospitals.shows a record 10,685 healthcare workers resigned from Victoria’s public health system in 2020-21 – 19 per cent more than the 9007 who quit the year before.
That means staff turnover from resignations represented the equivalent of about 8 per cent of the total workforce in 2020-21, up from about 7.3 per cent the previous year. Victorian Healthcare Association deputy chief executive Juan Paolo Legaspi said the wave of resignations had occurred at the worst possible moment for public health services.“We fear it may have continued in 2022,” he said. “We just don’t have the data yet to see that.“We are in the middle of a global shortage of healthcare workers affecting every state and territory in Australia. There has never been more competition for qualified health professionals.
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