Pan-Canadian Health Human Resource Strategy: 2004/2005 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 the Provinces/Territories, professional/regulatory/evidence based organizations, educational institutions, and other federal departments.

The delivery of the Strategy continues in the spirit of collaboration. Although the Health Human Strategies Division (HHRSD) of Health Canada leads the overall implementation of the Strategy, responsibility for many aspects of the Strategy lie 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. 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.

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

The 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.