Those are both great questions.
I would just say that the Canadian Paediatric Society has a wonderful website, called Caring for Kids, which is written for families, at basic levels, and has all sorts of wonderful information. I'm just going to put that plug in that some of that information is out there. We also have to contend with a lot of misinformation and disinformation around vaccines and other things, and that's another huge issue.
To the health human resource issue, it's huge, and the pandemic exacerbated everything. In lots of pediatric departments—and I can just speak for pediatrics across the country—maybe a third of the pediatric health workforce is doing okay; a third is doing so-so, and a third is struggling with well-being and feeling burnt out, often because people don't have enough colleagues and supports to help them and because of the moral distress of knowing they have long wait times and can't do all they want to do for their patients.
The big thing is just planning. Are we going to be in the same position five or 10 years from now? Again, we're flying blind right now. We don't know. How many pediatric neurologists do we need in the next five or 10 years? I can't even answer that—and I was president of the Pediatric Chairs of Canada—because I don't have that data readily at my fingertips to plan. How many should we be producing? Who might be retiring? Who's thinking about that?
This is where I think the federal government, on the advice of the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Nurses Association and others, can have a centre to collate all this information and help us plan, so we don't get burnt on this again.