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Canada is grappling with a health-care human-resources crisis. We see it in overcrowded emergency departments, long wait times for surgery, and people unable to find primary care providers. A recent national survey found that more than 6.5 million people in Canada do not have regular access to a family doctor or a nurse practitioner, up from 4.5 million just a few years ago.
Ps in Canada. While 76 per cent are employed, only 58 per cent of them work in health care, and most are not in the field in which they trained. While we face critical nursing shortages, 54 per cent of internationally educated nurses aren’t in nursing. While we expand the scope of practice of pharmacists, 54 per cent of foreign-educated pharmacists aren’t helping Canadians understand the complexities of their medications.
Ps—without connecting to workforce development initiatives or the immigrant communities they serve, overlooking the valuable expertise and lived experience that could be brought into their care environments.
Ps have been integrated to accelerate transformative change in the way primary care practitioners train to work together. These types of collaboration must be built into the foundations of our efforts to support a return to practice for
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