The workers found working the highest proportion of overtime were paramedics, respiratory therapists and salaried physicians.
Canadian health care workers put in more overtime hours last year than at any time in the last decade, a likely result of the increased burdens put upon them by the pandemic, according to new data.
Those kinds of numbers are no surprise to those who watch the health care sector. Indeed, they emphasize what was already known pre-COVID — that a crisis has been looming, and that the pandemic has exacerbated and accelerated the situation. In another study, published this month in the journal Canadian Family Physician, 17 per cent of doctors surveyed in Toronto in 2021 were planning on closing their practices within the next five years.
“That’s why one of our major asks of the federal government is to create an agency of experts to make sure that employers and government have the appropriate data and timely data.”
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