Pan-Canadian Health Human Resource Strategy: 2005-2006 Annual Report

Delivering the Pan-Canadian HHR Strategy

The Strategy is a truly collaborative undertaking. In developing the Strategy, consultations took place with a wide variety of stakeholders including P/Ts, professional/regulatory/evidence based organi­zations, educational institutions, and other federal departments.

The delivery of the Strategy continues this spirit of collaboration. Although the Health Human Resource Strategies Division (HHRSD) of Health Canada leads the overall implementation of the Strategy, responsibility for many aspects of the Strategy lies with the department's Office of Nursing Policy (ONP) and the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB), in close collaboration with the F/P/T Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources.

More specifically, ONP leads the development and implementation of the Healthy Workplace Initiative (HWI - a component of R&R) and, in partnership with Health Human Resource Strategies Division (HHRSD), leads the development and implementa­tion of the IECPCP initiative. FNIHB leads the development and implementation of HHR activities targeted towards First Nations and Inuit populations.

The F/P/T Conference of Deputy Ministers approved the three HHR initiatives/activities for the first five years of the Strategy in December 2003.

This team approach to the development and imple­mentation of Strategy activities has provided an opportunity to leverage on the wide variety of perspectives and expertise both internal and external to Health Canada. Collaboration and part­nership are values, which have, and continue, to define the Strategy.