SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Build on universities’ existing repositories of COVID knowledge to better understand long COVID. Support and utilise university research capability to do this.
2. Incentivise and promote paid final year health student roles in health services.
3. Bring educators, health services, regulators and the professions together to find ways that paid experience could count towards compulsory placements.
4. Develop a primary health care teaching and training fund, similar to the Teaching Training and Research (TTR) fund that already exists for public hospitals/health services.
5. Remove roadblocks to qualifying as a health worker:
   – Build increased, sustainable health professional student placement capacity through policy support for university-health/care service partnership approaches; and
   – Consider degree-apprenticeship models.
6. Make it easier for current and former health workers to retrain and upskill:
   – Introduce FEE-HELP for micro-credentials.
7. Maintain a long-term outlook:
   – Establish a national health workforce planning body