Canadian Partnership for Progress in Health Human Resources Welcome to participants and setting the...

Canadian Partnership for Progress in Health Human Resources

Welcome to participants and setting the context for the partnership

G. William N. Fitzgerald, CM, MD, FRCSCDanielle Fréchette, MPA

October 8-9, 2009


Welcome to all participants – thank you!

•Over 100 leaders and decision-makers within:

• Medicine• Nursing• Many other health professions across the continuum

of care• Health system management• Professional regulation• Education• Research• Government• Policy

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What to we mean by a “Canadian partnership for progress in health human resources”?

• Share ideas, experience and best practices

• Action to effect change• Realize a truly interprofessional and

collaborative health care system to meet the needs of Canadians

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A brief word about the Royal College:

• A national, nonprofit organization established in 1929 by a special Act of Parliament.

• Ensures the highest standards for the training, evaluation and practice of medical and surgical specialists in 61 specialties and subspecialties.

• Dedicated to excellence in specialty medical care, the highest standards in medical education and lifelong learning, and the promotion of sound health policy, including health human resources issues.

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So…

Why are we here… again?

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What has been accomplished thus far?

• Provincial and territorial plans, projects, initiatives

• FPT 10-year Plan to Strengthen Health Care (2004)

• Framework for Collaborative Pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Planning and Action Plan (2005)

• Task Force Two: A physician human resource strategy for Canada (2006)

• Building the Future: An integrated strategy for nursing human resources in Canada (2006)

• And others ( e.g, pharmacy and homecare)

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Despite these efforts, ongoing concerns exist:

stable and adequate health care workforce

opportunities for health professions to interact with planners and other stakeholders to share successes and identify issues

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Action 1: Establish an HHR group or mechanism to focus on HHR issues to ensure all appropriate HHR stakeholders focus and work collaboratively to facilitate continuing dialogue, coordination and cooperation.

…The “Partnership”


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Action 2: Confirm a research agenda and data collection to support HHR planning

…Tomorrow’s break out discussions


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Action 3: Build a HHR knowledge repository to disseminate best practices, share success stories, and optimize supply

…To be unveiled this fall… here’s a glimpse

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•Building on success…

•… Think smaller and act big

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•The focus of this conference:

• Intraprofessional collaboration within medicine:

• Challenges and progress in optimizing collaboration among and between family physicians, other specialists and physician assistants.

• Interprofessional collaboration between medicine and nursing:

• key issues and critical success factors for interprofessional collaboration between medicine and nursing … from policy and theory, and education and practice.

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Goals of this Conference:

• Build on the findings of the November 2008 National Specialty Societies conference to further define the problem-set and pathways to solutions concerning health human resources across the continuum of care.

• Facilitate the dialogue of health providers across the continuum of care, educators, researchers, policy and decision-makers within governments to affect action and change toward HHR solutions.

• Create a trans-disciplinary partnership of stakeholders in Canada concerned with HHR matters.


We need you!

•Please consider completing the Building the Partnership within your conference kits

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Thank you!

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