For those close to us, you will have witnessed a gentle evolution, over recent years, in how CPMC thinks and talks about its role and its impact in healthcare.
We have always been, and will remain, the voice of Australia’s medical colleges, and in service to them. But now, we’ve also started to more clearly stipulate what strong colleges, and supported specialists, mean for Australia’s healthcare system and in turn every Australian’s capacity to achieve better health outcomes.
This month, we launched a new brand and new website that reveal this strategic shift.
Central to defining who we are is the clarifying idea that: knowledge shared is impact amplified. This reflects our role as the connective tissue between medical colleges themselves, as well as between the colleges and the broader healthcare system.
This also supports us to better define our purpose, and desired impact, as improving health outcomes for Australian communities. Because by strengthening colleges, and enabling them to better equip the workforce with the right skillsets, then Australian communities are the ultimate beneficiaries of better care when and where they need it.
All this is now better demonstrated through our new website, which enables us to more effectively share what we do: in advocacy, with stakeholders, on projects and with partners; as well as providing quick access to the resources we produce for use across the health sector. The site is supported by a new LinkedIn presence.
It also enables us to continue sharing our cornerstone work in bringing our members and the sector together through our quarterly meetings. The most recent, held in Melbourne at the beginning of September, was addressed by the Minister for Health, Disability and Ageing, Mark Butler, and Chair of the House Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Disability, Dr Mike Freelander. It covered the broad range of interests CPMC is currently acting on, spanning the Inquiry into Access to and Affordability of Medical Specialists; Accreditation Standards for Specialist Medical Programs; the National Accreditation Portal project; Specialist Training, Workforce Reform and Access to Affordable Care; Exploring Innovative Models to Streamline and Shorten Training Pathways; and Medical Students and Specialist Training; as well as Cross-College Collaborations in rural and regional care and good college governance. For more, read our meeting Communique.
We invite you to explore our website, build a clearer picture of the work we do and why we do it, and follow-us on LinkedIn. We’ll be posting all our latest news here, at least monthly, and hope to see you back here soon.
