Health committee  I think it would be fair to say that to have a specific report from province to province to province is probably not possible. The reality is we still see situations where patients cannot be discharged home because there aren't people to provide the home care. It brings us back t

Health committee  Yes, unfortunately, time being what it is. There are some tremendous examples. I'll give you one. The Pan-Am Clinic in Winnipeg used to be a private system where orthopedic surgeries, shoulder and knee arthroscopies, etc., used to be done on a private basis. In other words, the

Health committee  Thank you very much. It's a difficult problem. The constitutional squabbling between the federal and provincial governments has been going on for generations. It seems to me we need to ensure that we have a plan and data to determine how many health professionals we will need an

Health committee  Thank you. Absolutely, we do require significantly increased seats in post-secondary education, not just for physicians and nurses, but for the panoply of health providers. There are examples, for example, in my home province of Alberta, where the government identified a certai

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. It gives me great pleasure to be here on behalf of the Canadian Health Professionals Secretariat, or CHPS, as we call it, which is a national advocacy body that represents 70,000 unionized health professionals who deliver essential diagnostic, c

Health committee  Thank you very much. In conclusion, I'll just restate the two main messages. Canada desperately needs an effective strategic plan at the federal level for a supply of health professionals, and our system requires reform.