PHIDU - Health and Welfare Services - Health Workforce (PHN) 2018

This dataset, released in February 2021, contains the statistics for General Medical Practitioners, 2018; Specialist Practitioners (as reported, excluding GPs), 2018; Unknown/Not applicable Medical Practitioners, 2018; Total Medical Practitioners, 2018; Registered Nurses only, 2018; Registered Nurses who are also Midwives, 2018; Total Registered Nurses, 2018; Enrolled Nurses, 2018; Midwives (may also be a Registered Nurse or Enrolled Nurse), 2018; Total Nurses (Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses or Midwives, each person only counted once), 2018; Dentists, 2018; Total Dental Practitioners (includes Dentists, Oral health therapists, Dental hygienists, Dental therapists and Dental prosthetists), 2018.The data is by Primary Health Network (PHN) 2017 geographic boundaries based on the 2016 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).\n\nThere are 31 PHNs set up by the Australian Government. Each network is controlled by a board of medical professionals and advised by a clinical council and community advisory committee. The boundaries of the PHNs closely align with the Local Hospital Networks where possible.\n\nFor more information please see the [data source notes](https://phidu.torrens.edu.au/current/data/sha-aust/notes/phidu_data_sources_notes.pdf) on the data. \n\nSource: Compiled by PHIDU based on data from the National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS), 2018; and ABS Estimated Resident Population, 30 June 2018.\n\n AURIN has spatially enabled the [original data](https://phidu.torrens.edu.au/social-health-atlases/data#social-health-atlas-of-australia-primary-health-networks). Data that was not shown/not applicable/not published/not available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data) was removed.It has been replaced by by Blank cells. For other keys and abbreviations refer to [PHIDU Keys](https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/1ryaKpnBQB6cMCp).