Webinars: Promising Practices That Support Retention of the Health Care Workforce in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities
Learn more about emerging practices that help support and retain the primary care workforce in northern, rural and remote communities.
- Topics
- Health workforce
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis priorities
- Cultural Safety
- Audience
Point of care provider
Quality or safety improvement lead
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There is a pressing need to support the health care workforce in order to strengthen and restore high-quality, safe health care for everyone in Canada. Providers who work in northern, rural and remote communities have unique challenges and associated support needs, related to factors such as fewer onsite team members; geographic remoteness and associated weather and travel challenges; access to fewer providers, specialists and facilities, and to less equipment; a broader scope of practice compared with their urban counterparts; and a patient population that is — on average — more complex compared with patient populations in urban centres.
In Spring 2023, HEC and the Canadian Institute for Health Information hosted a two-part webinar series to support this work.
The webinars discussed:
Promising practices that other communities have implemented to increase the retention of their healthcare workforce.
Key success factors to embed community, staff and Indigenous partnerships into retention approaches.
Practices that promote improved work–life balance and wellness, which contribute to retention of the healthcare workforce.
Strategies that healthcare leaders are using to engage staff to develop solutions geared at retaining people in the healthcare workforce.
Promising Practices That Support Retention of the Health Care Workforce in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities (Part One)
This webinar is part one of a two-part series, presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Promising Practices That Support Retention of the Health Care Workforce in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities (Part Two)
This webinar is part two of a two-part series, presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
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Northern and Indigenous Health
Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) supports the advancement of First Nations, Inuit and Métis priorities and culturally safe and equitable care in three program areas: Truth and Reconciliation, First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Northern health system partnerships, and addressing systemic racism and supporting cultural safety.