The Enhanced Health Workforce Minimum Data Standard for Planning Project

What do we need to know about health workers so we can better plan for how they can meet the health care needs of the public?

In brief, we need consistent information on a range of health workers in Canada. What our team of researchers and knowledge users have created is a standard list of questions to ask of all health workers so that we have this consistent data for better planning. This standard list of questions includes asking about health workers' background, like their gender and date of birth. Other questions include information about their training and how they practice. Having more complete and consistent information from a standard set of questions across different health worker groups across jurisdictions will greatly enable us to better plan for the health workforce we need, now and into the future.