Primary Health Care Nursing Insights

Each year, APNA hosts a series of webinars looking at the results of our annual Workforce Survey and exploring the current and future state of Australia's primary health care nursing workforce.

2026 

Webinar One - Stress, burnout and how we can better support primary health care nurses. 

Join us for a look at the result of the 2025 APNA Workforce Survey, what we learned about stress and burnout, and what we can do to improve the health and well-being of our primary health care nursing workforce.

Panellists:

• Dr Kirsten Moore, Research and Evaluation Manager, APNA
• Lisa Collison, Chief Primary Health Care Nursing Officer, APNA
• Perdita Dickson. Senior Manager, Strategic Operational Health and Social Assistance, WorkSafe Victoria
• Dr Alannah Cooper, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Murdoch University.

Resources

• Webinar slide deck 
• SafeWork Australia - use the find your regulator tool to find the regulator in your state or territory.

2025

Webinar one - Activities and utilisation

We discuss the results of the 2024 APNA Workforce Survey and look at how we can better utilise the primary health care nursing workforce.

Panellists:

• Adjunct Professor (Practice) Alison J McMillan PSM, Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer for the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
• Dr Paresh Dawda, Director and Principal, Prestantia Health and Next Practice Deakin
• Luke Elias, Director, Primary Health Programs and Partnerships, Healthy North Coast 
• Lisa Collison, General Manager, Research and Innovation, APNA

Webinar two - Demand, supply and retention

Panellists:

• Samantha Lavender from the Commonwealth Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Division
• Andy van der Rijt, Service Delivery Manager at Health Workforce Queensland