Shaping the Health Workforce

Shaping the Health Workforce
Why employers need to lead the thinking and decisions in the health labour market

Jean-Pierre de Raad
Policy Branch
Ministry of Health

Date of publication: September 1998

ISBN 0-478-22868-6 (Booklet)
ISBN 0-478-22869-4 (Internet)

Occasional Paper No 1

The occasional papers series is published by the Ministry of Health to foster constructive relationships, collaboration and information sharing
among health sector and central agencies.

The purpose of the occasional papers series is to provide authoritative information, and to foster debate on strategic health policy and health
management issues through well-researched, high quality, user-friendly essays of empirical or theoretical nature. Occasional papers are published
as warranted.

All occasional papers are subjected to in-house quality control processes under the oversight of an Editorial Board and, where appropriate, peer
reviewed by international panels.

This paper calls for health care providers to act on their role as employers by leading the thinking and decisions on the development of their workforce.

Action in this area should be one of their key strategies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care they provide.

Central government agencies can best contribute by facilitating the thinking and communication among employers (and educators and professionalbodies), and by ensuring employers have a good understanding
of the long-term context of the health and disability sector as well as having access to other public good information that assists employers’ decision-making capacity.

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