Connecting People and Care
Our 2024–25 Annual Report
“Health Workforce Canada was created to help address the twin challenges posed by widespread health workforce shortages and a rising need for healthcare services from a growing and aging population. I am very pleased to share that we have made a good start.”
Deb Gordon, CEO, Health Workforce Canada
Connecting people and care. That was the vision when Health Workforce Canada was created back in November 2023. In the face of significant shortages in our country’s health workforce, and with a growing and aging population requiring more health services, we set out to help enhance health workforce data and planning in order to ensure that health workers will be there for Canadians, when and where they need them.
Health Workforce Canada’s 2024-25 annual report highlights our first full year as an organization. During that year, we got down to work.
Over the course of the year, we engaged with the people and organizations with whom we want to collaborate. These include health system leaders, federal-provincial-territorial governments, employers and regional health authorities, health workers and organizations that represent them, caregivers and patients, members of the education sector, the research community, First Nations, Inuit and Métis organizations, and more.
We then established four priorities, reflecting what we heard from those we have been engaging with about what is needed for success. Those priorities are:
Networks
the Data
Forecasting
what Works
As you will learn from our annual report, we made strong early progress in advancing those priorities.
This work included launching a Canada-wide symposium about how to drive improvements in the health workforce, unveiling interactive one-stop-shop data and information dashboards, and piloting a digital front door that allows users to ask questions and find health workforce-related information online.
Read on to learn more about that work and much more, including some of our plans for the future. This report covers a successful and productive first full year for Health Workforce Canada – a year in which we began connecting people and care.