Today, The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Physical Activity, and Taleeb Noormohamed, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, visited BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute to announce $750,000 in support for its project, A New Provincial Training Hub: Building capacity for clinicians who care for children and youth with eating disorders. This project will improve clinician well-being, expand system capacity and ensure the availability of quality, evidence-based care for children and youth with pediatric eating disorders.

This project is part of the $11.6 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its partners to support 15 research teams and one Evidence Support and Knowledge Mobilization Hub. These teams and hub are investigating ways to strengthen and support Canada’s health workforce and alleviate the health workforce challenges that threaten the provision of timely, equitable, accessible and quality health care.

By supporting health care workers, we’re supporting a stronger healthcare system. Government of Canada investments will inform retention and recruitment practices, support the mobility of physicians across Canada to help communities facing shortages, and investigate solutions to strengthen the health workforce. Information practices will also be improved to support health employers and governments in the planning of the health workforce across the country.

The Government of Canada will address health workforce challenges 
alongside provinces and territories and other key partners. Budgets 2023 and 2024 outlined the government’s plan to invest close to $200 billion to improve health care for Canadians, which includes supporting the health workforce through retention, recruitment and planning.