What is it about?
What are the interventions that Allied health professionals working in regional cancer care do? How is it different to a generalist clinician and what are the learning pathways and opportunities to develop a cancer ready workforce?
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Why is it important?
Workforce shortages in regional remote areas demand an adaptable workforce. This paper highlights the discipline specific skills base required in a regional cancer care setting, allowing managers to identify skills that are transferrable from other settings, and succession plan specialist skills.
Perspectives
This paper highlights the importance of contextualisation of known interventions in a new setting. This might be considered in models of care development as a key enabler of a connected agile workforce.
Martine Waters
Queensland Health Consortium
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This page is a summary of: Understanding workforce needs of allied health staff in regional cancer care centres: Informing recruitment and succession planning, Australian Journal of Rural Health, October 2022, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ajr.12925.
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