Our Vision and Goals

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Objectives

. Build necessary planning infrastructure to assess health needs and identify workforce supply and productivity measures;

. Enhance workforce information and data systems to support a needs-based planning process for the province;

. Determine the appropriate mix of health care providers to deliver care across practice settings and sectors.

. Enhance the capacity of district health authorities to engage in collaborative HHR planning and evaluation;

. Collaborate with researchers to ensure the best available evidence informs HHR planning and evaluation initiatives.

Objectives

. Educate the health workforce to work in inter-professional teams and prepare health providers to work in unique service environments;

. Identify educational requirements to prepare health providers to meet identified needs.

. Strengthen partnerships among Department of Health, Department of Education, District Health Authorities, educational institutions, employers, unions and professional associations;

. Work with educational institutions to ensure educational curricula prepares trainees to work in a variety of work settings and practice environments;

. Work with employers, professional association and unions to ensure health care providers are able to deliver services to their full scope of practice.

Objectives

. Increase the capacity of Nova Scotia's health system to recruit and retain health care providers;

. Increase the capacity of employers to address health and safety issues to reduce work-related violence, illness, injury, disability and absenteeism.