June - July 2024
Initial feedback from stakeholders indicates a need to address common skills gaps for pathology, which are reiterated across health and social assistance industries.
Skills gaps to address include:
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regional healthcare settings and point of care testing
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support for specialist environments
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development for a range of patient handling
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digital literacy skills
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pre-requisite skills
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professional responsibilities and soft skills.
Project outcomes will better align qualifications to the industry needs and regulatory requirements and will create clear and sustainable career pathways to support existing and future industry growth.
A project Technical
Committee is being established to provide expert advice. Technical Committee members are selected for their relevant expertise in the diverse project aspects.
Project fact sheet
View the Terms of Reference and Project Reference Group members.
August 2024
Information gathering activities will be undertaken to prepare drafts units of competency, qualifications and skill sets for national stakeholder consultations. These include:
- a Technical Committee meeting to source stakeholders to consult on qualifications content, for insight on communication and consultation strategies, and to provide technical knowledge of the skills required to meet the desired vocational outcomes
- 16 one-on-one employer interviews to determine the skills required in their organisations, career pathways for workers and focused changes in their sector in the foreseeable future. These will include employers from small, medium and large employers
- an online functional analysis workshop with industry stakeholders from all Australian jurisdictions to determine skill commonalities and differences. This will assist in determining core and elective components of the draft qualifications
- desktop research used to gather publicly available information on industry standards, working conditions and employer recruitment selection criteria.
November 2024
Consultations were held between Tuesday 5 November and Tuesday 24 December 2024.
We collected your feedback through a number of mechanisms including targeted interviews, public workshops, site visits, surveys, phone calls, and emails.
Targeted interviews, public workshops and site visits were conducted with stakeholders providing valuable perspectives on the qualification review. Face-to-face workshops and site visits were held in Perth (5/11/24), Adelaide (7/11/24), Darwin (12/11/24), Brisbane (15/11/24), Newcastle (25/11/24), Sydney (27/11/24), Albury (28/11/24), Melbourne (3/12/24), Canberra (5/12/24), and Hobart (11/12/24). Stakeholders were also provided with the opportunity to participate in online workshops (12/12/24 and 16/12/24) and to submit feedback via survey. The survey for this project closed on Tuesday 24 December 2024.
We would like to thank all participants who provided their feedback and contributed to the development of the draft training products. Here’s what you told us.
Public Consultation Feedback
The draft training product documentation that was made available through the consultation period is available to download.
Draft Training Product Documentation
February to May 2025
We appreciate your dedication and positive engagement during the consultation period. There were 110 stakeholders who contributed to this project and 462 items of feedback were received via in person and online consultation workshops, site visits, multiple surveys and emails.
Each item of feedback was carefully considered and discussed with the Project Technical Committee before draft training products were updated.
Please view our Consultation Log containing a high-level summary of all feedback, proposed changes and actions taken with justification provided for feedback which was considered but not actioned. 
Consultation log
Draft training products have been submitted to Senior Responsible Officers in each state and territory and to the federal government. They will review the proposed training products to ensure any implementation issues identified during consultation have been resolved in each jurisdiction. 
June to August 2025
Please check back later for further information.