This Research Front focuses on the allied health workforce. It features a selection of articles that contribute to the evidence base to inform decision-making regarding allied health workforce policy, practices and research.

Last Updated: 15 Jun 2015

AH14071Strengthening the allied health workforce: policy, practice and research issues and opportunities

Lucio Naccarella

pp. 241-243

AH14194Allied health: untapped potential in the Australian health system

Kathleen Philip

pp. 244-247

AH14210Allied health: leaders in health care reform

Donna Markham

pp. 248-248

AH14141The Queensland Health Ministerial Taskforce on health practitioners’ expanded scope of practice: consultation findings

Gretchen Young, Julie Hulcombe, Andrea Hurwood and Susan Nancarrow

pp. 249-254

AH14213Future of specialised roles in allied health practice: who is responsible?

Elizabeth H. Skinner, Kimberley J. Haines, Kate Hayes, Daniel Seller, Jessica C. Toohey, Julie C. Reeve, Clare Holdsworth and Terry P. Haines

pp. 255-259

AH14253Advanced allied health assistants: an emerging workforce

Claire Pearce and Leanne Pagett

pp. 260-263

AH14211Building allied health workforce capacity: a strategic approach to workforce innovation

Lisa Somerville, Annette Davis, Andrea L. Elliott, Desiree Terrill, Nicole Austin and Kathleen Philip

pp. 264-270

AH14208Advanced musculoskeletal physiotherapy clinical education framework supporting an emerging new workforce

Paula Harding, Jonathan Prescott, James Sayer and Andrea Pearce

pp. 271-282

AH14207Patient experience of expanded-scope-of-practice musculoskeletal physiotherapy in the emergency department: a qualitative study

Paula Harding, Jonathan Prescott, Lenore Block, Anne Marie O'Flynn and Angela T. Burge

pp. 283-289

AH14198Factors that affect job satisfaction and intention to leave of allied health professionals in a metropolitan hospital

Natalie A. Wilson

pp. 290-294

AH14161Mapping allied health evidence-based practice: providing a basis for organisational realignment

Jenny Ziviani, Shelley A. Wilkinson, Fiona Hinchliffe and Rachel Feeney

pp. 295-302

AH14209Research capacity and culture of the Victorian public health allied health workforce is influenced by key research support staff and location

Cylie Williams, Koki Miyazaki, Donna Borkowski, Carol McKinstry, Matthew Cotchet and Terry Haines

pp. 303-311

AH14212Embedding research culture and productivity in hospital physiotherapy departments: challenges and opportunities

Elizabeth H. Skinner, Cylie M. Williams and Terry P. Haines

pp. 312-314