This report is a three-year review of the Voluntary Bonding Scheme for medical, nursing and midwifery graduates, run by Health Workforce New Zealand.
The Scheme, which started in 2009, is a practical initiative designed to move graduates into the communities and specialties that need them most and retain essential health workforces in New Zealand.
Key Results
Conclusions include:- open the Scheme to doctors who complete their GP vocational training in hard-to-staff areas
- improve the methodology used to determine hard-to-staff areas and specialties
- an updated database to reduce the administrative burden of the Scheme.