Notes on the data: Health workforce

Health workforce, medical, nursing and dental professionals, 2021

Policy context: Access to a range of health practitioners is important for the population’s health. The data presented here show geographic variations in the number and rate of registered general, hospital and specialist medical practitioners, nurses, and dental practitioners, as extracted from the National Health Workforce Data Set (NHWDS) [1]. The NHWDS consists of de-identified registration and survey data for health practitioners from the fourteen health professions regulated by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS). Data are available by Primary Health Network (PHN), Local Government Area (LGA) and Remoteness Area.

Reference

Available from https://hwd.health.gov.au/datatool/; last accessed 21 December 2020

Geography: Data available by Local Government Area, Primary Health Network and Remoteness Area

Numerator: Numbers for each profession or group of professions

Denominator: Total population

Detail of analysis: Number of medical professionals per 100,000 people

Source: Compiled by PHIDU based on data from the National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS), 2021; and Australian Bureau of Statistics Estimated Resident Population, 30 June 2021.