The crisis in health care staffing is no secret - so don’t try to hide the gruesome data

Statistics Canada data show there are currently 91,900 vacancies in the health sector – the bulk of those are for nurses and PSWs.The latest glaring example is the determined effort by the Ontario government to keep its data on the province’s shortages of physicians, nurses and personal support workersa freedom of information request for Ontario ’s projections for its health worker shortages, which were included in briefing notes for Health Minister Sylvia Jones.

In arguing for secrecy, the government cited section 18 of Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, claiming that releasing the data would be “injurious to the financial interests of the government or the ability of the government to manage the economy.” Are staffing agencies going to use the information to try and extract more money out of the Ontario government? Indeed. But the law of supply and demand means they have done okay without the data, racking up contracts exceeding

And, even if the public release of the numbers were to cause “harm” – the definition of which, in this case, seems to be “pay workers more” – does that justify secrecy? Of course not.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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