Thank you.
We can always use more money, but I think there are other things that can be done within the system to promote efficiencies, and specifically around health human resources. Yes, if we had all the money in the world, we would take it and use it, but there are things we can do.
We can get the data. If you don't measure it, you can't manage it. We need to focus on healthy health care work places, so that we can attract people and keep them in the workplace. We need to really focus on interprofessional education and practice, maximizing current scopes and using health professionals as they should be used, within their full scope of practice, and on some advanced practice roles that are emerging as a result of good innovation.
Primary health care was a fantastic investment of funds from the federal government, $780 million, which created numerous models of how to deliver health care differently. These are all things—again, we don't have time, I know, to go on, but we could—that will promote efficiencies within the system. This is why I said earlier that I'm an optimist. I think there are things we can do.
That being said, the HHR issue is heading to a crisis.