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Speaker 1: Another chapter in the convoluted, highly confusing world of medical jobs.

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Speaker 1: From next month, applications for certain roles from certain countries

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Speaker 1: will be fast tracked the targets twenty days. Australia's just

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Speaker 1: implemented a similar policy last week. Royal New Zealand College

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Speaker 1: of GP's president Samantha mertens with a Samantha morning to you,

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Speaker 1: good morning.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Are we playing basic? Well, thank you. We're basically playing

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Speaker 1: catch up with Australia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the conversations about this have gone on synchronously,

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Speaker 2: so we knew that they were doing the same sort

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Speaker 2: of thing that we also were doing. And we do

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Speaker 2: work sort of hand in hand.

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Speaker 1: It's not ketchup, right, are we actually do we have

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Speaker 1: any jobs? It's just last time I looked, there was

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Speaker 1: about a thousand nurses that turned up in the country

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Speaker 1: and they couldn't find a job. It seems to be

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Speaker 1: a convoluted mess.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and complex is exactly what health is. I think

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Speaker 2: we do have jobs in certain areas, and so in

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Speaker 2: general practice there are plenty of roles available. In psychiatry,

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Speaker 2: there are in some of the antivics, there's plenty of

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Speaker 2: jobs available. So it's just a matter of being able

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Speaker 2: to have someone who's coming not wait for months on

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Speaker 2: end to get your registration.

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Speaker 1: So it's in a hospital, I need an anesthetist. There's

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Speaker 1: one in Australia and Sydney wants to move. So in

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Speaker 1: other words, what we're tidying up here is the joining

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Speaker 1: of the dots and the paperwork, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: get that done more efficiently. So there is a job,

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Speaker 1: there is a person. We're just doing better administration.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is a much better administration.

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Speaker 1: How is it possible that we're sitting here in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four having this conversation. We didn't do this about

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Speaker 1: I don't know one hundred years ago.

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Speaker 2: I think the thing about medicine is we want people

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Speaker 2: to come in to our services that are safe, and

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Speaker 2: we have slowly got better and better systems at looking

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Speaker 2: at each other's clinicians and saying, yes, this is what

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Speaker 2: safety looks like for a commission clinician. We can have

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Speaker 2: it on paper, but it doesn't mean that that person's

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Speaker 2: not a rogue. And so the joined ukness of the

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Speaker 2: Medical Council's globally has started to happen. So it helps

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Speaker 2: a lot for us to know exactly what other jurisdictions

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Speaker 2: are doing, so that we know what we're getting when

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Speaker 2: they come in.

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Speaker 1: Are we attractive?

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Speaker 2: We're going to take this because we're a great country

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Speaker 2: and we are a little way away but much better

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Speaker 2: than some political environments that other people live in, and

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Speaker 2: so there are a lot of people who do want

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Speaker 2: to come. And we have forty one percent of our

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Speaker 2: medical professions overseas graduates, so we do attract a lot

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Speaker 2: good high THANCD.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good but positive. I almost had a health and

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Speaker 1: positive conversation there with you, Samantha, So that worked out well,

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Speaker 1: Samantha Merton, Royal College of GPS, because I am worried

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Speaker 1: about the health system, the work. It doesn't seem to

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