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Health Practitioners’ Forum
NZ Diversity Forum 2008: Capitalising on a Diverse Health Workforce
The Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research hosted a follow up workshop at the Diversity Forum involving District Health Board (DHB), educator and research perspectives. The first half of the workshop focused on initiatives from the three Auckland DHBs to capitalise on overseas registered health professionals and featured educator and researcher perspectives. The second half involved discussion groups to make recommendations to advance the agenda of capitalising on a diverse health workforce.
The presentations from the workshop are available below:
Programme (183 kb) - Roanne Croane (102 kb)
- Ruth DeSouza (1.5 MB)
- Patsy Deverall (1.7 MB)
- Carol Frankson (160 kb)
- Nicola North (133 kb)
- Elizabeth Ryan (126 kb)
- Recommendations (254 kb)
Key Stakeholder Forum: Integrating Immigrant Health Practitioners into the New Zealand Workforce
The Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research hosted a key stakeholder consultation forum on 27 May 2008 to discuss a possible integrated service delivery model for refugee and immigrant health professionals seeking New Zealand registration. The forum involved dialogue between agencies such as the Medical Council, Tertiary Education Commission, Ministry of Health, Department of Labour, District Health Boards, Non Governmental Organisations such as the Auckland Regional Migrant Services Trust, and Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, the Associate Dean International and Director: Faculty International Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Professor Hawthorne has researched global skill migration in relation to health workforce migration for the past 15 years, in particular policy, accreditation and labour market integration issues. Most recently she has been appointed by the OECD to conduct research related to high skill migration across member nations (2007-08), with separate projects analysing the mobility of temporary versus permanent professionals; new strategies for the global portability of qualifications (including for medical and nursing migrants); and international student participation in high skill migration. A European perspective was provided by video link by Ceri Butler from the Department of Primary Care and Population Science, University College London, a key proponent of multi-stakeholder approaches. The forum followed research undertaken by AUT University staff member Charles Mpofu on occupational transition issues of immigrant health practitioners from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB) which was prompted by media stories about immigrant doctors being under-employed in low skilled work in New Zealand while shortages in the medical workforce were also being reported.
This project was developed by Charles with the goal of generating knowledge and expanding the understanding of structural barriers in the employment of NESB immigrant health practitioners in New Zealand. The purpose of his project was to achieve a greater understanding of how NESB immigrant medical practitioners in New Zealand experience and manage hardships in attempting to meet recognition and registration requirements. It was anticipated that the published findings of the study might contribute to improvements in various policies involved and to achieve greater awareness of the difficulties faced by such immigrants. Internationally, in countries with health systems comparable to New Zealand the issue of NESB immigrant health practitioners being under-employed in non-career grades has been researched and tackled by NESB representative groups, labour and health ministries, regulatory boards and local health service employing authorities. In most of these countries especially Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia, governments and local health authorities have acknowledged that initiatives aimed at enabling immigrant health practitioners to meet registration requirements have implications not only for settlement outcomes but for diverse workforce development and meeting workforce shortages.
To view the programme and presentations, click on the links below:
- Programme (264 kb)
- ARMS (137 kb)
- Ceri Butler (143 kb)
- Paul Callister, Juthika Badkar, Robert Didham (85 kb)
- Charles Mpofu (503 kb)
- Jos Peach (95 kb)
- Lesleyanne Hawthorne (300 kb)
- Mark Thorpe (452 kb)
- Nina Siers (773 kb)
- Peter Larmer (111 kb)
- Philip Pigou (266 kb)