The action plan builds on the pan-Canadian health human resource strategy, which was established in 2003. One of the most successful aspects of that strategy has been ongoing collaboration that occurs through an FPT process and includes stakeholder engagement. Collaborative efforts are being used to share and centralize data, identify barriers, and share best practices among participants. Obviously, the planning is to work to help ensure an adequate supply and an appropriate mix of health care professionals. It builds on work, on health labour relations and information on health sector labour relations collected in the health cross-jurisdictional labour relations database, and on work on interdisciplinary or interprofessional education and investments in post-secondary education. This includes federal funding through the interprofessional education for collaborative patient-centred practice initiative. This is to ensure that nurses can work with doctors, physiotherapists can work with nurses, that all of the different health care professionals can work well together.
On April 17th, 2008. See this statement in context.