October 8-9, 2009

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!

Documents

October 8-9, 2009