Assistant Professor, Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB.
Global MBA candidate, University of London, London, UK.
Healthc Policy. 2022 Aug;18(1):17-25. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2022.26909.
The regulation of health professions differs across Canadian provinces and territories, often resulting in an unstandardized approach to licensure and registration. These siloed regulatory frameworks hinder health workforce mobility and virtual care - with implications for patient safety and equitable access to healthcare - and pose a barrier to integrated health workforce planning. The authors report on a Best Brains Exchange policy dialogue held in October 2019 on pan-Canadian registration and licensure (CIHR 2019), highlighting leading practices and presenting a potential path forward through pan-Canadian regulatory mechanisms. Situating these findings within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgency for governments to move on this reform.
加拿大各省份和地区的医疗保健专业人员监管方式存在差异，这往往导致许可和注册的方式不统一。这些孤立的监管框架阻碍了卫生人力的流动和虚拟护理——对患者安全和公平获得医疗保健产生影响——并对综合卫生人力规划构成障碍。作者报告了 2019 年 10 月举行的一次关于全加注册和许可的最佳头脑交流政策对话（CIHR 2019），重点介绍了领先做法，并通过全加监管机制提出了一个潜在的前进道路。将这些发现置于 COVID-19 大流行的背景下，表明各国政府迫切需要对此项改革采取行动。
