Australian health reforms: enhancing interprofessional practice and competency within the health workforce

Abstract

Underpinned by increasing healthcare complexity and ongoing pressures to control the cost of healthcare, governments are increasingly calling for improved health service delivery models. A public policy paradigm of partnership-based, collaborative interprofessional working is central to revised models of health service delivery. Collaborative activity and service re-design do not occur by chance. They are complex and multi-faceted. Increasingly, calls for collaborative style health service re-design activities are being translated to a need to agree on a clear set of interprofessional competencies and develop a culture of interprofessional practice (IPP) across the sector. This report summarizes the requirements for developing a culture of interprofessional practice within the context of Australian healthcare reforms. It also highlights the role of well-developed interprofessional competency frameworks to support envisaged changes in practice. The report expands the discussion in this area by referring to the work of two other nations with prior developments in interprofessional workplace development and reform.

Examining the intersections between continuing education, interprofessional education and workplace learning

“…Brownie, Thomas, McAllister, and Groves (2014) summarize requirements for developing a culture of interprofessional practice within the context of Australian healthcare reforms and the role of interprofessional competency frameworks. Veerapen and Purkis (2014) examine the collaborative profiles of recently graduated physicians and nurses working at tertiary training hospitals in Canada and the United Kingdom and the role of CIPE.…”

Competencies Model of a Leader In a Healthcare Organization: International Experience of Distributed Leadership Implementation

“…[Sarto, Veronesi, 2016]. В рамках реализации реформ здраво охранения в Австралии отмечена их успеш ность, связанная с обеспечением команд ной работы персонала и формировани ем межпрофессиональных компетенций (IPP -interprofessional practice) [Brownie et al, 2014].…”

Current status of interprofessional competency among healthcare professions in Japan: A cross‐sectional web‐based survey

“…In 2010, WHO presented a framework for action on interprofessional education and collaborative practice to improve the quality of care for patients and their families, 5 and stated the need for competency‐based education in IPC. Since then, interprofessional competency has been addressed in various countries including Japan, 6–9 resulting in a gradual spread of competency‐based education. Despite the acknowledged importance of interprofessional education (IPE), however, variation in evaluation methods makes comparisons and synthesis of results problematic 10,11 .…”