Similarly, the effectiveness of workforce reform is often difficult to capture because of the downstream effects of changing health service processes [ 14].
Such quantitative empirical evidence establishes a better baseline against which to monitor the effectiveness of workforce strategies and guide workforce planning.
Syntheses of evidence about the effectiveness of workforce development interventions to enhance the knowledge and skills of the health and social care support workforce are urgently needed to meet the high-profile challenges to care standards for older people.
In the critical reading above, we outlined some of the reasons that we (and others) contend there may be limits to the effectiveness of the workforce strategy for long-term workforce sustainability.
In the absence of any definitive evidence about the effectiveness of medical workforce retention grants, our findings suggest that existing workforce retention interventions are insufficiently effective to ensure equality of continuity of family physician care for residents of remote and very remote areas.
This includes testing the field of play, timing, scoring technology, venue installation and effectiveness of the workforce.
In short, without supporting one side or the other, you can recognize in your own mind that post-election mistrust may be a lingering problem in your company, affecting the productivity and effectiveness of your workforce.
However, it is destination countries' ability to retain these nurses that will determine the long-term effectiveness of these workforce strategies.
While a small number of scoping reviews in health and social care have focused on aspects of, for example, support workers' roles, tasks and regulation, 17 18 we are not aware of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of support workforce development interventions.
Building the capability and effectiveness of the workforces in these sectors, particularly for Indigenous people, will be critical to achieving the outcomes agreed in these frameworks.
With these challenges in mind, we now go on to speculate about the effectiveness of Australia's workforce initiatives for sustaining the early childhood workforce in the longer term.
