Canada needs urgent solutions to address burnout among health-care workers

Canada’s health workforce is being pushed to the breaking point under the accumulated weight of years of resource constraints.

Canada's Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured at the Ottawa Hospital, talking to staff. All levels of government must work together to ensure manageable workloads and safe workplaces, improve compensation and benefits, provide better support for mental health, and protect work-life balance for health-care workers, writes NDP MP Don Davies.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NDP MP DON DAVIES

April 24, 2023

Canada’s health workforce crisis has reached a breaking point. Across the country, staffing shortages are leading to emergency room closures, hospital overcrowding, delayed surgeries and diagnostics, family doctor shortages, and long wait lists for continuing care.

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