Canada's federal government allocates $47m for health worker research and counts, focusing on workforce gaps, physician database expansion.

Canada's federal government has announced $47m funding to research and count health workers, including doctors, in the country. $22.5m will go to the Canadian Institute for Health Information to study workforce gaps, and $13m to the Medical Council of Canada to expand a national physician database. This comes after years of calls from doctors and nurses urging for a federal lead on the issue.

July 11, 2024
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