Company Profile

Company Description:

Health Workforce Queensland are a not for profit, non-Government Rural Workforce Agency (RWA) for primary health workforce in Queensland, focused on making sure remote, rural, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities have access to highly skilled health professionals when and where they need them, now and into the future.

Our Vision is to ensure an optimal health workforce to enhance the health of Queensland communities.

To achieve this Vision, Our Purpose is to create sustainable health workforce solutions that meet the needs of remote, rural, regional and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities challenged by a supply shortage of health professionals.

We engage and collaborate with key remote and rural primary health care stakeholders to inform health policy, enhance development of workforce solutions, participate in community development and practice support; contribute to strategies for sustainable primary care business models; provide grants and scholarship initiatives; facilitate professional development education and training; engage future workforce; organise industry network coordination; and provide intelligence, capture health workforce data and produce evidence to ensure we continuously improve our effectiveness.​​

We continue to grow and develop new capabilities. Subsequently, Health Workforce Queensland functions as the Lead Agency for a number of National consortium contracts for the Rural Workforce Agency Network (RWAN)