Our country’s healthcare providers are essential to ensuring the efficient, effective and safe delivery of healthcare services to all Canadians. It is critical to protect the health and safety of this incredibly important workforce. Although there has been progress in addressing the physical health and safety of healthcare workers and workplaces, there is an equally important and urgent need to safeguard their psychological health and safety. Simply put, we can no longer afford to think of workplace health and safety from only the physical perspective.
As the co-lead of the Quality Mental Health Care Network (QMHCN) with the Mental Health Care Commission of Canada, HealthCareCAN is developing the Quality Mental Health Care Framework (the Framework), a key initiative by the QMHCN, HealthCareCAN is pleased to provide members with this member-only policy brief outlining our progress in defining quality mental health care and the essential quality dimensions that encompass the provision of quality mental health care.
In response to our members’ pressing need to protecting the health and safety of their workforce, HealthCareCAN has partnered with Howatt HR Consulting to offer an exclusive webinar that will provide members with the tools and resources necessary to help address this growing issue, and engage staff in constructive dialogue to ensure a psychologically healthy, safe and productive workforce.
At the end of June, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health (HESA) presented their report Violence Facing Health Care Workers in Canada to the House of Commons. HealthCareCAN has reviewed HESA’s recommendations to address violence faced by health care workers in hospitals, long-term care facilities and in home care settings.
Michael Garron Hospital is using the Standard to create a mentally healthy workplace, with impressive results:
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Mental Health Now! Advancing the Mental Health of Canadians: The Federal Role
Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health | September 6, 2016
Implementing the National Standard in the Canadian Health Sector: A Cross-Case Analysis
Commissioned by HealthCareCAN and the Mental Health Commission of Canada | April 20, 2016
Sunny Ways” to Levelling the Playing Field for Mental Health: Overcoming the “Canadian Condition”
Bill Tholl speaking notes to the Canadian Psychological Association, Policy Advocacy and Engagement Workshop | January 15, 2016
Toward Levelling the Legislative Playing Field for Mental Health: Amending the Canada Health Act
Canadian Psychiatric Association - Psych-e newsletter | August 11, 2015