The following five reports on the health and disability workforce all broadly agree on the need to:

* enable greater leadership for improvements in national and regional co-ordination to reduce the current duplication in workforce activities across the health and disability sector
* strengthen health and disability workforce planning that is aligned to service delivery
* balance long-term responses to workforce supply issues with the pragmatic tactics used by district health boards to meet their unique short-term workforce needs.

The Medical Training Board, the SMO Commission and the RMO Commission were asked to focus on the medical workforce, although the Medical Training Board report does make provision for the inclusion of other professions within its proposed structure. The Nursing Committee was asked to evaluate the merits of a nursing education and training board. The CTA Review group was asked to look at the wider health and disability workforce.

All five reports recommend a separate national entity to respond to the complexities of health and disability workforce training issues. The RMO Commission report also recommends the establishment of a separate single employer for RMOs.