Employee turnover rate is a measure of how many employees leave a company in a given period, usually a year. According to the NAB Behavioural Insight Report, the health sector had the second highest rate of turnover in 2023 with 25% or a quarter of the workforce leaving their jobs.  According to the Report there are a number of primary reasons workers are contemplating leaving their jobs including a lack of personal fulfillment, purpose or meaning, lack of career growth, mental health, poor pay and benefits. By age, younger workers (18-29) are much more likely to have changed jobs in recent years, particularly within the last 12 months, compared to older employees (33% vs. 18% in the 30-49 age groups, 13% in the 50-64 groups and 5% among those over 65).  Around 16% of health workers are considering changin jobs in the next few months.  There is no doubt that healthcare has become a more challenging career as chronic shortages of doctors, nurses and health workers increases pressure on those remaining in the sector.  But there has also been a marked increase in concern about the working enviornment for health professionals, particularly in the public hospital system, where allegations of bullying, harassment, intimidation, cover-ups and a loss of focus on patient-centred care have become a persistent feature of the public inquiries and media reporting on the sector.   Turnover not only costs health care organisatons money, it also wastes valuable skills that are difficult to replace and on which many vulnerable Australian rely for their well-being.