A month of action focused on shaping the workforce of tomorrow, today.
A future-ready organisation is everyone’s responsibility. We can all take small steps to learn and stay curious.
This February, the Future Workforce Unit is providing you with tools and information that will spark curiosity in futures thinking, raise awareness and support planning for the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Futures Cards are a valuable resource for you and your team, helping you to consider how the megatrends anticipated to impact NSW Health to 2040 may play out in your workplace.
A great and easy-to-use tool for all planning activities!
Misinformation and disinformation are among the top-rated risks highlighted by the World Economic Forum in 2025. This Insights Paper will begin to translate what this growing trend means for the NSW Health workforce, as well as offering some tangible solutions for workforce leaders and planners to consider.
The Future Health Podcast features thought-provoking discussions with subject matter experts and thought leaders about current and emerging trends in healthcare and the future of work for the NSW Health workforce and beyond.
Season 8 goes 'Beyond Health' to capture the most transformative ideas from SXSW Sydney 2025. By bringing together experts in neuroscience, AI, strategy, and futures-thinking, we aren't just discussing the future of the hospital - we are exploring the future of our world that will determine our future health and workforce. This is where global innovation meets NSW’s workforce strategy, inspiring a new generation of healthcare leaders to imagine what’s possible.
Futures Musters facilitates a creative space for current and emerging leaders across the NSW health system to think curiously and innovatively about the future of work and the NSW Health workforce. Learn about our health specific megatrends and their impact on the NSW Health Workforce to 2040.
Register for the Futures Muster
As Australia navigates profound demographic, technological, epidemiological, and societal transitions, the health workforce has emerged as one of the most critical determinants of system performance, equity, and sustainability.
This event, hosted by UNSW and supported by NSW Health aims to reflect and discuss emerging and future health system needs across prevention, acute care, chronic disease, and ageing populations and the workforce and skills required to meet these demands.
Register for the Future Health Skills Summit
On the Horizon is a monthly digest of signals and trends that influence the work, workplace and workforce of NSW Health.
The Future Workforce Unit aims to support the health system to ensure a resilient and digitally enabled workforce that can adapt to the changes in the system caused by technology and other disruptions.
By focusing on not just the now, but also the future, NSW Health can ensure that we meet the needs of the community now and into the future.
Subscribe to On the Horizon
Have you heard of the Beyond tomorrow report? It provides comprehensive analysis of transformative trends, detailing their influence on the health sector and workforce in NSW through to 2040.
Catch up on past Futures Musters, with topics including technology and scientific innovation, consumer-led care and population changes.
Check out Future Health Podcast - Season 7 where we shine a spotlight on 'How do we get to the future?' driving progress and redefining the Australian healthcare landscape. Our host, Dr Louise Messara is joined by a line-up of innovators, visionaries, and disruptors who are shaping the future of healthcare.
