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 […]
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Health Workforce Canada marks its first anniversary!
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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 […]
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, […]
Acting on new insights about family doctor practice will have positive impact on health workforce challenges
Creation of Health Workforce Canada, new data, employer toolkits, policy changes among key actions underway By Health Workforce Canada A report released this week by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) builds on our understanding about factors that may be contributing to the availability of primary care in Canada, and is one of several […]
Health Workforce Canada celebrates vital role of women in strong health workforce
Women play a vital role in Canada’s health workforce. They are physicians and nurses, midwives and personal and other support workers. They are allied health professionals – dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, and part of many other clinical groups. Women, too, are an essential part of the workforce in clinical and corporate support, research and […]
Canada’s health systems over capacity, marked by job vacancies, millions of hours in overtime
System responding with innovations, collaboration through new entity Health Workforce Canada By Health Workforce Canada Across the country, responses to health workforce challenges during and after the pandemic have included innovations in how service is delivered, expanded scopes of practice and a renewed focused on team-based care. New pan-Canadian collaborations have started to move the […]