“It’s not really a new problem, but the persistence of it and the severity of it is unprecedented,” Dr. Chris Simpson, executive vice-president at Ontario Health, said of the staffing crunch that’s led to service reductions and temporary emergency room closures in recent weeks.
Like many health-care advocates and worker groups, Simpson noted that the staff shortage is particularly acute among nurses, many of whom have been leaving the field due to retirements and burnout after more than two years of a grueling pandemic workload. “I’m pretty optimistic … that by September, we should be looking better from a staffing point of view than we do today,” he said.Article content
Ontario’s health minister on Thursday gave regulatory colleges for nurses and doctors two weeks to develop plans to more quickly register internationally educated professionals. Unions representing hospital workers on Friday shared a list of steps they proposed the government should take to tackle the situation.
“The fact is that we have many people in a position to retire and we can’t really afford them to leave,” said Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. “We have to have this discussion.”
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