Health Workforce Planning

Leads: Sarah Simkin & Dax Bourcier

Patients experience the health system through the health workforce, and so the workforce should be a necessary focus of efforts to meet patients' needs. For the health system to respond to the needs of patients amidst emerging challenges, workforce planning is necessary. Planning supports the quintuple aim and is arguably foundational for improving population health, enhancing the patient experience, reducing costs, supporting provider well-being, and advancing health equity.

CHWN researchers have been building capacity for health workforce planning though research, advocacy and knowledge translation.

Infographics

How-To Playbook for Health Workforce Planning (September, 2024)

Toronto Region Primary Care Workforce Planning Toolkit (6 Steps for Planning)

Innovations

A Modern Data Architecture for Health Workforce Planning (Coming soon)

INTEGRATED PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE PLANNING IN TORONTO

CHWN researchers have been collaborating with Ontario Health Toronto to co-develop a health workforce planning toolkit. The toolkit includes a fit-for-purpose planning process, a quantitative model, an interactive dashboard, and tools to support engagement with local health system leaders. The outputs of the toolkit provide a body of evidence around the current (and projected future) states of population health needs and primary care service provision at a neighbourhood level within the City of Toronto to support evidence-based workforce decision-making.

DocForce

An online tool that allows stakeholders to interact with the most relevant public data on Canada's current and projected physician workforce. Docforce's goal is to meet the healthcare needs of all Canadians by providing students, professionals and change agents with the tools they need to make data-driven decisions about workforce resource allocation.

Health Education England: Recipe for Good Health Workforce Planning

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