Saturday, June 4th, 2011
Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) is working with District Health Boards (DHBs), education providers and professional associations to develop four regional postgraduate training hubs (hubs).
These hubs will address the postgraduate education and training needs of clinical staff across the sector from novice to expert, while maintaining a focus on the needs of health providers and the communities they serve.
The aim of the hubs is to ensure that a suitably qualified health workforce is in place to meet regional and national service delivery needs.
These hubs will be virtual bodies – collaborative ventures bringing together the range of organisations involved in planning and delivering clinical training.
The four hubs cover the following 20 DHB regions:
- Northern (Waitemata, Auckland, Counties Manukau, and Northland DHBs)
- Midlands (Waikato, Taranaki, Lakes, Bay of Plenty, and Tairawhiti DHBs)
- Central (Whanganui, MidCentral Health, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Capital and Coast, and Hutt DHBs)
- South Island (West Coast, Southern, Canterbury, South Canterbury, and Nelson Marlborough DHBs).
Each hub will be responsible for a population of approximately one million people. Each region is currently developing or implementing project plans to ensure the hubs will be functioning by July 2011.
The hubs will be responsible for:
- Standardising training/education programmes using educational principles and assessments in collaboration with the various colleges, educational providers and professional associations
- Supporting clinical staff to develop and implement career plans and provision of mentoring services
- Sourcing traditional and non-traditional accredited student placements
- Reducing duplication of resources by consolidating 20 DHB training programmes into four hubs
- Ensuring workforce training aligns with national service delivery needs and regional clinical service plans.
You can view more information, and FAQs, in this document:
- Regional Training Hubs – FAQs (.pdf, 143 kb)
