A Health Career

SA HealthGill Norrington, Manager, Recruitment StrategyMargaret McCallum, Recruitment Consultant

Careers in Health

> Medical • GPs• Specialists, • Hospital Medical Officers

> Nursing• Enrolled• Registered• Specialist

> Allied Health Professionals

Allied Health Professionals> Allied Health Assistant> Ambulance Paramedic> Art Therapist> Audiologist> Biomedical Engineer> Diagnostic Radiography> Dietitian> Exercise Physiologist> Health Scientist> Hospital Pharmacist> Intensive Care Ambulance

Paramedic> Life Style Coordinator> Medical Diagnostic Radiographer> Medical Imaging> Medical Laboratory Technical

Officer> Medical Physicist> Medical Scientist> Music Therapist> Nuclear Medicine Technologist> Nutritionist

> Occupational Therapist> Optometrist> Orthoptist> Osteopath> Othotics and Prosthetics> Pharmacist> Physiotherapist> Physiotherapy Assistant> Podiatrist> Podiatry Assistant> Prosthestist / Orthotist> Psychologist> Radiation Therapist> Social Worker> Sonographer> Speech Pathologist> Therapy Aide> Ultrasound Radiography

Pathways

> Degree Level> Associate Diploma Level> Certificate Level> Vocational Education Training Program

The graph below shows the age profile of nurses registered by the Nurses Board of South Australia (NBSA) in 2006.

2006 SA AIHW Nursing & Midwifery Labour force Survey.

The following graph shows the increase in the average age of GPs from 2001 to 2005 as reported in the March 2006 Department of Health publication titled 'South Australian Medical Labour Force 2005'.

Demand for health care services is increasing at a time when there is an international shortage of medical and nursing staff. It is increasingly difficult to recruit GPs to work in country areas. While South Australia has succeeded in recruiting health professionals in recent years, we know recruitment will become more difficult in particular specialties, such as obstetrics and intensive care.

Health care challenge – Health workforce

The establishment of a South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute will ensure South Australia's strong position

in health and medical research in the future

Medical Research Institute

The new hospital will incorporate the services of the current Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), and will assume some of the more

complex services from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH). It will transform and improve the face of Adelaide’s West End.

It will have more than 80 000 same day and overnight admissions per year, 800 beds (including 100 same-day), an ambulatory care centre, operating theatre suite, all clinical and non-clinical support

services necessary for the provision of high quality and safe patient care, and an excellent facility for teaching and research.

New Royal Adelaide Hospital