An integrative review of the impact of allied health student placements on current staff's knowledge and procedural skills in acute and primary care settings.

Background: Staff shortages limit access to health services. The bidirectional benefits of allied health clinical placements are understood in the domains of student learning, health service delivery, and future workforce development. Still, the benefits to current workforce outcomes remain unknown.

An International Competency Framework for High-Quality Workforce Development in Integrated Care (IC): A Modified Delphi Study Among Global Participants.

Introduction: There have been increasing calls in the literature recommending training in integrated care (IC) for health and social care professionals. Although studies have focused on different stakeholders' perceptions of education and training, there is no consistent definition of the key competencies or approach to implementing these competencies among health and social care providers. This study used a modified Delphi consensus-building method with global panellists with experience in delivering and designing training in IC to ascertain which competencies are important in an international framework guiding workforce development in IC.

Stakeholder perspectives on electronic prescribing in primary care: A scoping review.

Background: Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) provides a convenient, efficient, paperless mechanism for the legal transfer of prescriptions between service users, prescribers, and dispensers. There have been advances in e-prescribing processes and increased uptake of e-prescribing globally, in recent years.

Objective: To explore stakeholder perspectives on e-prescribing in primary care settings.

Workforce Development in Integrated Care: A Scoping Review.

Introduction: Integrated care aims to improve access, quality and continuity of services for ageing populations and people experiencing chronic conditions. However, the health and social care workforce is ill equipped to address complex patient care needs due to working and training in silos. This paper describes the extent and nature of the evidence on workforce development in integrated care to inform future research, policy and practice.

Identifying practical approaches to the normalisation of interprofessional collaboration in rural hospitals: A qualitative study among health professionals.

This qualitative study explores the ideas and experiences of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) among health professionals in rural public hospitals and to propagate its normalization into practice by identifying existing or suggested solutions. The literature focuses largely on the barriers and facilitators to IPC in metropolitan areas and there is room to identify more practical responses for implementing solutions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 healthcare professionals (October 2018-March 2019).

The benefits and challenges of a rural community-based work-ready placement program for allied health students.

Introduction: Rural and remote Australia has a shortage of allied health clinicians. The provision of quality rural placement experiences for allied health students has been a significant strategy to address these health workforce shortages. Service learning rural placements are providing allied health services in small rural towns where previously allied health services were limited or did not exist.

Ruralization of students' horizons: insights into Australian health professional students' rural and remote placements.

Introduction: Health workforce shortages have driven the Australian and other Western governments to invest in engaging more health professional students in rural and remote placements. The aim of this qualitative study was to provide an understanding of the lived experiences of students undertaking placements in various nonmetropolitan locations across Australia. In addition to providing their suggestions to improve rural placements, the study provides insight into factors contributing to positive and negative experiences that influence students' future rural practice intentions.

Integration in a nurse practitioner-led mental health service in rural Australia.

Objective: Integration of mental health services is a prominent Australian mental health policy goal; however, there is little detail in the literature of how integrated mental health services are established or function. This study aimed to describe a nurse practitioner-led primary healthcare rural mental health service and evidence of how the service was integrated with other services and the community.

Design: This pragmatic exploratory study used case study methodology and analysed documents, quantitative data and qualitative data from individual and group semi-structured interviews and a 'stakeholder meeting'.