Innovative Approaches to Workforce Development in the USA and Canada

Despite their importance to Canada's healthcare system, health workers continue to be given more labor and responsibility. More than ever, we must improve our health workforce preparation and continue to conduct research to support health workers.

The Honourable Ya'ara Saks, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health




and the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Official Languages, announced on behalf of the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, that the federal government will invest over $47 million in new projects to support Canada's health workforce. These projects include:

$22.5 million for the healthcare workforce. Canada should make health workforce data more accessible, as well as share useful insights and new ways of doing things, in order to close substantial gaps and make health workforce planning more practical.
The government has given the Medical Council of Canada $13 million to run and expand the National Registry of Physicians, which will act as a single repository for all streamlined physician data. The government has also allocated about $330,000 to the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada to improve the standards and processes for licensing doctors in Canada. Finally, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its partners have awarded $11.6 million to teams working on approaches for developing and supporting Canada's health workforce.
These programs will help municipalities that are having problems finding doctors by allowing them to roam across Canada. They will also be used to study ideas for improving the health workforce, which will have a positive impact on policy and practice. These projects will also make it easier to gather, use, and share data about Canada's healthcare workforce. This will help governments and healthcare organizations prepare for the country's health workforce.

The Canadian government will continue to work with the provinces, territories, and other essential partners to address health-related concerns. The government's intention to spend more than $200 billion on enhancing Canadians' health care was detailed in the 2023 and 2024 budgets. One of the goals is to help health professionals by retaining them, hiring new ones, and arranging their schedules.

"It's important for people in Canada to get the care they need, when they need it, that everyone works together to support health workers." By focusing on developing and supporting Canada's health-care workforce, our government hopes to offer more Canadians with better access to care when they need it and guarantee that everyone receives the treatment they deserve.

Mark Holland, Canada's Minister of Health




"The people who work in health care in Canada do very hard jobs, often in environments that are complicated and stressful." It is vital that we provide our health workers with the necessary assistance, just as they do for everyone in Canada. New programs are being created to better understand and assist the mental health and well-being of Canadian health care workers. This allows them to continue to provide high-quality care across the country.

The Honourable Ya'ara Saks is Canada's second-in-command for health and mental health, as well as the minister of additions.

"Giving good care means building a strong healthcare workforce." The decisions made today do this by fostering data exchange and workforce planning. We are changing the way we provide care in Canada so that everyone can have better health.

What an honorable person. Randy Boissonnault is Canada's Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Official Languages.

"Changing the system to support a healthy and resilient workforce needs a team effort based on evidence that is tailored to the needs of both workers and health systems." These team grants are a fantastic way to use evidence to aid in this transition, and the hub is the perfect site to ensure that evidence is shared, exchanged, and applied in policy and practice at the appropriate time. We are excited to see how this study will improve our healthcare systems.

Dr. Rick Glazier serves as the Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research.

"More information is required to help analyze the problems that everyone is experiencing so that the planning, development, and support of a strong, healthy workforce can take place across the country." Health Workforce Canada collaborates closely with our partners to provide access to current health workforce statistics, strengthen health workforce data, and promote practical health workforce ideas and solutions.

Deb Gordon is the acting CEO of Health Workforce Canada




"The National Registry of Physicians (NRP) is grateful for the Government of Canada's ongoing support." The NRP is Canada's first database of its kind. It fills a critical information gap by listing all of the doctors licensed to operate independently in Canada, as well as the area(s) in which they work. For Canadian patients, this means that doctors will be free to travel around and provide care where it is most needed.

The CEO of the Medical Council of Canada, Dr. Viren N. Naik, holds a medical degree, an MBA, and an FRCPC.

"The Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada is thankful that Health Canada has helped make it easier for people to get care." The project's goals are to strengthen doctor license standards and processes, harmonize and streamline trainee qualifications, and investigate the Atlantic Registry's successes and potential. This would allow for increased multi-jurisdictional registration and enhanced licensure for international medical graduates and doctors who received training abroad.

Dr. George Carruthers, President and Registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Prince Edward Island, spoke.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, and Michael Smith Health Research BC have all contributed funds to the new study. This is the most money CIHR has ever committed in health workforce research, and the studies supported by this effort are congruent with the major topics described in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Assessment of Health Human Resources, which was commissioned by Health Canada.

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