Health Workforce Planning

Integrated Primary Care Workforce Planning in Toronto (June, 2023)

Family Medicine Workforce Trends in Ontario: Context & Policy Implications (CAHSPR - May, 2023)

Health Workforce Data for Planning Purposes in Canada: Current State, Challenges, and Future Directions (CAHSPR - May, 2023)

Mental Health, Leaves of Absence and Return to Work Experiences of Health Professionals in Canada & the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (May, 2023)

Providers of Language-Appropriate Health Care Providers are Scarce: Self-declared language capabilities of the healthcare workforce in Ontario (CHWC - December, 2020)

INTEGRATED PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE PLANNING IN TORONTO

Since 2017, CHWN researchers have been working with Ontario Health Toronto to co-develop an integrated planning process to support evidence-based workforce decision-making for the region. The result of the collaboration is a health workforce planning toolkit that incorporates planning processes, environmental scanning tools, and a quantitative model. 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. The planning process estimates population needs and workforce capacity at the neighbourhood, sub-region, and whole city levels. It addresses challenges specific to Toronto, such as patient mobility, anticipated rapid population growth, and physician retirement.

DOCFORCE

The Docforce Platform is a web-based tool that allows interested parties to interact with the most relevant public data on current and projected physician workforces across Canada. The goal of Docforce is to fulfill the healthcare needs of all Canadians by equipping students, professionals, and change-makers with the right tools to make data-driven decisions on workforce resource allocation.

Integrated Primary Health Workforce Planning in the City of Toronto: Inputs, Process, Outputs & Impact (December, 2021)

Best Practices in Workforce Management by Sarah Simkin (June, 2021)

Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care | Chapter 11: Key Issues in Health Workforce Planning (Edward Elgar Publishing, in press)

Implementing leading practices in regional-level primary care workforce planning: Lessons learned in Toronto (October, 2022)

Modernising physician resource planning: a national interactive web platform for Canadian medical trainees (January, 2022)

Co-developing an integrated primary care workforce planning approach at a regional level: overarching framework and guiding principles (July, 2021)

An integrated primary care workforce planning toolkit at the regional level (part 1): qualitative tools compiled for decision-makers in Toronto, Canada (July, 2021)

An integrated primary care workforce planning toolkit at the regional level (part 2): quantitative tools compiled for decision-makers in Toronto, Canada (July, 2021)

Poor health workforce planning is costly, risky and inequitable (October, 2019)