New Zealand has significant problems in recruiting, training and retaining adequate numbers of appropriate health and disability services workers. This is most likely to worsen.The planning and funding of the training of the New Zealand health and disability services workforce is iterative, ad hoc and poorly coordinated.
A single agency, which has a whole of health and disability services workforce and a whole of educational continuum responsibility, is needed if New Zealand is to have an affordable and fit-for-purpose health and disability services workforce.
It is recommended that the Clinical Training Agency be substantially reconfigured so that the Agency can plan and either fund or direct the funding of the training of the New Zealand health and disability services workforce.
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