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The Honourable Deb Matthews, Ontario Minister of Health at Breakfast with the Chiefs October 30, 2013

A Shortage of Healthcare Workers Can Cause Potential Problems: The World Health Organization has recently reported that a major obstacle facing health care worldwide is a significant shortage of workers skilled in the health care field. Responses to influenza outbreaks, chronic diseases and other challenges are limited by a massive shortage of staff worldwide.

• Experts predict severe shortage of healthcare providers in 2014
• Critical shortage of health care aides anticipated - Canada.com
• Worker shortage: America's next healthcare epidemic (PDF)
• The Healthcare Worker Shortage Study Guide (PDF)
• Shortage of healthcare workers in developing countries--Africa.
• Task shifting to tackle health worker shortages - World Health Organization (PDF)
• U.S. Healthcare Workforce Shortages (PDF)
• 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health Is Taking Place in Brazil
• Global Shortage of Health Workers Expected to Keep Growing, UN Agency Warns
• Foreign-Educated Health Workers Play Vital Role in US Health System
• "No Health Without A Workforce"
• Most countries in the Americas have sufficient health personnel but face challenges in distribution, migration and training
• Up to 20000 NHS nursing posts remain unfilled, says Royal College ...
• Complex cure for health care system needs
• Providers should look to foreign-educated workforce to address shortages, study says
• In Shortages, Mid-Level Health Workers as Effective as Physicians for Certain Services
• Foreigners stealing our health worker jobs? There is another side to this story
• Immigration could ease caregiver shortage

From the Longwoods Archives

Will operate for food: The implications of physician unemployment- It seems comical, after years of hearing about Canada's physician shortages, that Canada may soon see physicians on the unemployment line.

Not Dead Yet: The Spectre of Nursing Human Resource Shortages - Shortages are beginning to emerge, but they are primarily in areas of specialty practice such as, for example, critical care, the OR and mental health, areas where new graduates are poorly prepared to practise immediately on completion of their basic programs. 

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Transitions

• Margaret C. Beatty to President and Chief Executive Officer, Temiskaming Hospital, New Liskeard, ON
• Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg to Executive Director, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC
• Dr. Paul Rogers of UBC Faculty of Medicine to Board Secretary-General, International Society of Pediatric Oncology, Geneva, CH
• Bernard Crotty to President, Northwest International Healthcare Properties REIT, Toronto, ON
• Teresa Neto to Chief Financial Officer, Northwest International Healthcare Properties REIT, Toronto, ON
• Rich Berner to President, Allscripts International, Chicago, IL
• Mark Hubbell to Managing Director for Canada, Allscripts International, Kelowna, BC
• Karim Vassanji to Medical Information Systems Associate, Janssen, Toronto, ON
• Anne Elsley-Swan to Director Product Strategy, Roche, Mississauga, ON
• Emma Lewzey to Senior Major Gifts Officer, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON
• Zenita Hirji to Interim CFO & VP at Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON
• Lynne Trott to Executive Vice President, SteriPro Canada, Mississauga, ON
• Dr. Mojgan Hodaie to Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, ON
• Dr. Deborah Marshall to Arthur JE Child Chair, Rheumatology Research, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
• Adalsteinn Brown appointed Editor in Chief of the journal HealthcarePapers, Toronto, ON
• Rob MacIsaac to President & CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
• Richard Ernst, President and CEO, Guelph General Hospital will retire May, 2014, Guelph, ON
• Faridoon Gilani to Director Medical Affairs, Halton Healthcare Services, Milton, ON
• Kimberlee Haines to Manager, Integrated Hospitals and Healthcare, Novartis, Dorval, QC
• Uppala Chandrasekera to Vice Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada, Ottawa, ON
• Amy Lau to Advancement Director, Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation, Toronto, ON

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