National Health Workforce Summit 2026
Solutions for a Sustainable Workforce
17 – 18 August 2026 | Crown Promenade Melbourne
The 5th Annual National Health Workforce Summit returns in 2026, bringing together leading voices and fresh ideas to solve one of the biggest issues facing Australia’s healthcare system — our workforce. This year for the first time, we will be co-locating a new event – the Healthcare Workplace Safety Conference.
The conference aims to explore innovative solutions and strategies to enhance the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of the healthcare workforce, ensuring that it meets the evolving needs of the workforce. The summit will provide a platform for attendees to engage in thought-provoking discussions, exchange ideas, and establish collaborative networks.
Why Attend?
- Solution-focused panels and keynotes
- Action-oriented case studies and challenge clinics
- Peer learning through interactive roundtable workshops
- Strategic insights from thought leaders, tech experts and frontline professionals
Co-located with the Healthcare Workplace Safety Conference
Expand your learning and collaboration opportunities by accessing sessions that focus on workforce wellbeing, occupational violence, psychosocial risk management, and creating mentally healthy workplaces.
2026 SPEAKERS
LATEST INTERVIEWS + NEWS
What can we do to support the healthcare workforce in rural, regional and remote areas?
While a national shortage of healthcare workers is being felt across Australia, nowhere is doing it tougher than the country’s rural, regional and remote communities.
Simple fixes to the healthcare workforce crisis
Statistics around the future of Australia’s workforce have sent shock-waves through the already overburdened sector, but there may be some simple strategies to overcome them, according to Dr Joseph Occhino of Queensland Health.
How to channel more medical graduates into primary healthcare
How digital health can relieve our healthcare workforce crisis
Renewed focus on nurse and midwife safety needed during COVID-19, says ANMF President
The WHO’s COVID-19 Risk Communication Package for Healthcare Facilities
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WHEN & WHERE
17 - 18 Aug 2026
Crown Promenade Melbourne
8 Whiteman St
Southbank VIC 3006
+61 (03) 9292 8888