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Name optometrists on the HPSS Award
2025/04/07 OA & Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
"Using the supply forecast for exit rates of 2%, 5.1% and 10%, there are surpluses of optometrists in 2025, 2030 and 2035." [see Appendix 4]
*Based on service utilisation (current observed use) modelling*
Alternatively: "...there is a projected undersupply of optometrists to meet population needs...A baseline of 9,010 optometrists to meet population need is identified for 2025 increasing to 11,149 optometrists in 2040." [see Table 4]
*Based on population needs-based modelling; note 2025 optom supply is ≈7.2k*
This needs-based model estimates the workforce for optimal coverage of population need (including unmet/latent need). It is therefore assumption-heavy and unconstrained by real-world factors such as affordability, access, and uptake, i.e., current observed use of services.
Accordingly, the implied ‘undersupply’ is best treated as a theoretical upper bound and should not be interpreted in isolation.
Working conditions of employee optometrists in Australia
2026/03/25 Cheung, R. & Trinh, M. et al.Call to end systemic optometry workforce challenges preliminary results [part 2/2]
2025/05/20 Trinh, M. et al.Australian optometry workforce survey preliminary results [part 1/2]
2025/02/14 Anstice, N. et al.Optometrists who leave the profession in Australia 2011 to 2019
2025 Duffy, J.F. et al., Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 108(2), pp. 202–2The mental health and wellbeing survey of Australian optometrists
2021 Bentley, S.A. et al., Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 41(4), pp. 798–807
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Optometrist workplace delegates, formally trained and protected to represent you
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