APNA 2025 Workforce Survey Report

Australia's highly skilled and experienced primary health care nurses provide critical care in communities around Australia. We depend on them for quality assurance, research, governance, coordination of care across complex systems, and preventive health and clinical interventions such as immunisation, chronic disease, end-of-life care, and minor procedures. But are we at risk of losing them to burnout? 

The 2025 APNA Workforce Survey Report brings together what we've learned from over 2000 primary health care nurses and midwives. The data is clear: structural challenges are contributing to underutilisation and burnout. It also shows that when nurses can work to their full scope of practice, they're more likely to stay in their roles and less likely to experience burnout. With demand for care growing and workforce shortages set to continue, there's a real opportunity to better support this essential workforce.

Read the full report to learn more.