The New South Wales and Victorian governments will need to hire medical staff from overseas and keep senior staff in the sector if they wish to meet ambitious new recruitment targets, according to experts who say hiring has never been harder.
The NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, this week pledged $4.5bn to boost the state’s health workforce by more than 10,000 over four years, including the hiring 7,500 doctors, nurses and allied health professionals over the next 12 months. Victoria also pledged in May to produce 7,000 more health staff.
