Part 3: Looking Beyond Our Usual Horizons: Listening to All Voices and to Industries Beyond Healthcare
At the WHO meeting Looking to the Future: Modelling and Optimizing the Health and Care Workforce (April 27–30), 250 eager faces filled the room. After several days of working together, we were beginning to coalesce around fresh ways of planning for the health workforce. Then, a young woman raised her hand and introduced herself as […]
Part 2: Health Workforce Planning Through Complexity: Tackling Multiple Problems in Tandem Within Complex Adaptive Systems
Health workforce planning is riddled with challenges. When we gather in large-scale meetings, it’s common to spend hours unpacking the many issues we face. But that wasn’t the approach taken at the WHO’s Looking to the Future: Modelling and Optimizing the Health and Care Workforce (April 27–30) in Copenhagen. Instead, we were invited to begin […]
New Provider Wellness Dashboard Module to better understand work stress, workplace safety, employee satisfaction and more
Canada’s health care workers are the backbone of our health system, and understanding their well-being is integral to planning for a safe and healthy workforce. We’ve created a new dashboard module on Provider Wellness to help improve understanding of both the physical and mental well-being of Canada’s health workforce. There’s information directly from surveys with […]
Part 1: Health Workforce Canada Participates in the WHO’s Looking to the Future: Modelling and Optimizing the Health and Care Workforce
Health Workforce Canada was honoured to join in the World Health Organization (WHO) – European Region three-day event (April 28-30, 2025) focused on health workforce planning and policy. Countries from around the world participated in interactive workshops designed to identify common challenges and innovative solutions with respect to data, modelling and planning with an eye […]
New interactive dashboard data is here to support your health workforce planning
Presenting the next step in our work to strengthen health workforce data and planning in Canada – Primary Health Care and Long-Term Care Continuum modules! These two new interactive modules are now live within our Workforce in View dashboard. Powered by data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Statistics Canada, they bring together available health sector data […]
Study shows urgent need for enhanced health workforce modelling in Canada
The Caring for Canadians: Canada’s Future Health Workforce study released today highlights the urgency to better plan for the country’s health workforce needs with improved data, modelling and scenario-planning. Caring for Canadians, which included participation from Health Workforce Canada, projects an increase in shortages of family physicians, registered nurses and pharmacists over the next 10 […]
CEO Deb Gordon looks at the year ahead for Health Workforce Canada
Deb Gordon, Interim CEO Happy New Year! As I reflect on 2024, I think about the challenges confronting our health care system, the opportunities that lie ahead, and our role in finding meaningful solutions. A significant number of people without access to primary care in their communities, lengthy wait times for services, competing financial pressures, […]
Health Workforce Canada marks its first anniversary!
Thanks to our partners for helping make Health Workforce Canada’s first year a success! Read More
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 […]