Investing in the Health Workforce: Aligning Strategy, Leadership and the Team


“Thank you for another informative and valuable conference of the Healthcare Workforce – Aligning strategy leadership and the team.  Again you have managed to produce a programme of high energy with a vast array of diverse speakers that were able to cover the theory, the emerging theory on workforce strategy alongside practical examples of leaders in healthcare settings making change happen, improving the experience for staff and care for patients.  I was impressed with the international transferability of the lessons articulated in many of the sessions, we really do have some global issues that are better resolved through learning events such as this one!  Keep them coming!”   

Adel Jones,

Head of Workforce and Organisational Development, Performance and Development Team

South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Torbay Hospital, UK

Session 1 - Investing in the Health Care Workforce. Is Reform and Innovation Enough
  • Peter Carver
    National Health Workforce Reform [download]
  • Etienne Scheepers
    What is Driving Workforce Reform? [download]
  • Debbie Law
    Workforce Innovation Caring for Older People [download]
Session 2 - Innovation, Leadership and Performance
  • Robynne Cooke
    ANUM Boot Camp [download]
  • Nerrida Barton
    Preparing for the future! Hunter New England Health's 'Advancing Leadership' Strategy [download]
Session 3 - Practice Development and Clinical Excellence
  • Rachel Tosh
    Developing Clinical Education Leadership [download]
  • Belynda Abbott
    Striving for Clinical Excellence [download]
Session 3A - Recruitment and Retention
  • Catriona Booker
    How do Registered Nurses Aged 45 years and Over Determine their Workforce Participation? [download]
  • Jason Payne
    Using action learning as one pathway to retention [download]
Session 4 - Supporting the Workforce
  • Dean Raven
    A World of Expertise [download]
  • Julie Rogers
    Transitioning Overseas Qualified Nurses and Midwives into the Australian Healthcare Setting [download]
  • Nerida Russell-Green
    Theatre Foundations Course [download]
Session 4A - Rural and Remote Recruitment and Retention
  • Catherine Deverell
    Making a difference to health workforce recruitment and retention in rural and remote settings? [download]
  • Jodie Quinnell
    Finding and keeping our rural mental health/drug & alcohol workforce [download]
Session 5 - Strategy, Leadership and Communication
  • Adel Jones
    Working beyond boundaries, through turning listening into action [download]
Session 6 - Empowering and Energising the Workforce
  • Jane Stanfield
    A Social Change Epidemic: Building capability from the ground up [download]
  • Katie Tully
    'Better Workplaces' - Continuous improvement to workplace culture within Queensland Health [download]
  • Karen Patterson
    Investing in Time. Leading with Purpose [download]
  • Sheree Paterson
    Enabling Communication Reform [download]
Session 7 - Models, Workloads and Tools
  • Naomi Hebson
    Physician's Assistant Pilot lessons in change management for workforce redesign [download]
  • Cherie Hearn
    Managing Allied Health Workloads - Development of Workload Allocation Tool [download]
  • Tracey Gray
    Urology Workforce Review Project [download]
  • Jodee Allanson
    The development and implementation of a Change Capability Maturity Model and Diagnostic Tool in the Heath Sector [download]