Cutting-edge health research and innovation is to be fostered in the ACT under a new strategic plan for the health workforce to drive research.
Launching ACT Health’s Better together: A strategic plan for research in the ACT health system 2022-2030, Minister for Health, Rachel Stephen-Smith said the eight-year plan would help improve the health and wellbeing of the community.
“The new strategic research plan aims to help the ACT’s dedicated frontline health workforce deliver better outcomes for their patients,” Ms Stephen-Smith said.
“The plan sets out three strategic objectives and 10 accompanying strategic actions that the ACT Government will deliver with our partners across universities, health services and consumers to realise this vision,” she said.
“This includes supporting the ACT’s health system to become a learning health system by investing in our people and showcasing the infrastructure and platforms that facilitate high-value research.”
Ms Stephen-Smith said new fellowships for early and mid-career researchers would be delivered to kickstart the Territory’s progress and invest in healthcare workers across the system.
“By fostering a learning health system, discoveries that advance knowledge and technologies, translate interventions and design system-wide models of care can improve health outcomes for all,” the Minister said.
“Fundamentally, research improves our health, our wellbeing and our quality of life.”
ACT Health’s 28-page Strategic Plan can be accessed at this PS News link.
