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Introducing Health Workforce Canada’s Strategic Plan 2025 to 2028! 

We are pleased to launch Health Workforce Canada’s first strategic plan, which will guide our collective work from 2025 to 2028. Our plan comes at a time when Canada’s health workforce faces daunting challenges. To build a stronger, healthier workforce for the future, we need data-informed planning, innovative models of care, and strategies to ensure worker […]

People at the centre of our first symposium, and at the centre of health care

On October 30 and 31, 2024 in Montreal, health system leaders, employers, policymakers, health professionals, researchers, caregivers and patients shared ideas for how to support Canada’s health workforce, the people we rely on to deliver health care when we need it. Health Workforce Canada Connects was Health Workforce Canada’s first symposium, and as a new […]

Strategies for improving the retention of newly graduated nurses 

On Friday, September 27, Health Workforce Canada had the opportunity to attend a workshop in Vancouver, that focused on retention solutions for new graduate nurses. This workshop was led by Rob Paquin and his team (the STARS team).  We were fortunate enough to have Rob lead HWC’s first pop-up session on retaining new health care […]

Health workforce dashboards are now updated and even better 

We’re thrilled to advise that our three health workforce data and information dashboards for Canada are now updated and even better.   The modules in these dashboards are currently powered by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Statistics Canada and offer an interactive, consolidated view of some of the pan-Canadian health workforce data available today.  The Workforce in […]

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Statement

Health Workforce Canada is a new organization and our vision is: “Together, planning, building and supporting a strong, healthy workforce to enhance health outcomes for all people in Canada.” Contributing to meeting the needs of Indigenous communities and health workers through our work is fundamentally important. Our work has begun through seeking advice, open listening, […]

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territories of many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. We recognize and celebrate the strength and resilience of Indigenous health workers and we embrace the opportunity to work closely together to advance cultural safety for those who provide care and those we care for.

Health Workforce Canada is a new, independent organization established by an Interim Steering Committee, supported by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), and funded by Health Canada. It has been created in recognition of the need to bring together health workforce experts and those in the health care field to learn from each other and strengthen health workforce data and planning to help ensure health workers are there to provide the care people in Canada need.

We are committed to engaging with a broad spectrum of stakeholders as we chart the path toward new approaches to health workforce planning.

© Health Workforce Canada 2024