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Primary health care is any medical service that is provided outside the four walls of a hospital, including aged care, community health, general practice, custodial, schools and many other primary health care settings. Australia's 98,000+ primary health care nurses play a critical role in disease prevention and control to keep people healthy. They provide proactive care and health promotion to keep Australians well.
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The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) says the Albanese Government’s $4.2 million investment in the National Nursing Clinical Placement Program will help to grow the next generation of primary health care nurses and combat the workforce shortage.
The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) will meet with Members of Parliament in Canberra this week to discuss solutions and help fix a range of workforce issues which have the potential to cause an exodus of nurses from the country’s primary health care sector in the next five years.
At a time of chronic health workforce shortages across Australia, a new survey has revealed that four out of five highly-qualified registered and enrolled primary health care nurses in GP clinics are being forced to undertake a long-list of non-clinical, administrative work, instead of giving people the medical care they need in the community.
The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) welcomes the Albanese Government support payments for student nurses and midwives undertaking clinical placement training as part of their path to finishing their qualifications.