ACN Policy Summit 2025
Reforming Healthcare Policy for the Future Nursing Workforce
Old Parliament House, Canberra, Friday, 14 March 2025
The leader of the Federal Government’s groundbreaking Unleashing the Potential of the Health Workforce – Scope of Practice review, Professor Mark Cormack, will address nursing leaders, health policy experts, and industry stakeholders at the eighth annual ACN Policy Summit in Canberra on Friday, 14 March.
Professor Cormack will be joined by an elite panel of health policy experts: Emeritus Professor Stephen Duckett AM, Professor Sabina Knight AM FACN, Karen Booth, and Adjunct Professor Karrie Long MACN.
With the theme, ‘Reforming Healthcare Policy for the Future Nursing Workforce’, the Summit will focus on critical challenges in Australia’s healthcare system and how nurses and nursing can provide many of the solutions.
- Keynote Speaker: Professor Mark Cormack, National Centre for Health Workforce Studies, ANU
- Panel Participants:
- Emeritus Professor Stephen Duckett AM, Health Economist and Board Director
- Professor Sabina Knight AM FACN, Director, James Cook University Central Queensland Centre for Rural and Remote Health
- Karen Booth, Chief Clinical Adviser, Australian Digital Health Agency
- Adjunct Professor Karrie Long MACN, Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, Safer Care Victoria
- ACN Leadership:
- Adjunct Professor David Plunkett FACN, President
- Adjunct Professor Kathryn Zeitz FACN, Chief Executive Officer
As Australia faces evolving healthcare challenges, the nursing profession plays a pivotal role in delivering quality patient care and driving system transformation.
The ACN Policy Summit will address key recommendations from the Scope of Practice Review, including establishing a Primary Care Workforce Development Program, and introducing new payment models to enable multidisciplinary healthcare delivery.
ACN Policy Summit 2025:
Date: Friday, 14 March, 2025
Time: 8:45am – 5:00pm
Location: Old Parliament House, Canberra
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