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Pandemic exposing critical gaps in health workforce planning

Burnout was far too common in the healthcare workforce before the pandemic. COVID-19 has made it much worse. Poor health workforce planning is to blame.

Minister of Labour Filomena Tassi, pictured on the Hill Nov. 26, 2019, should work to ensure the burnout health-care workers are experiencing ends along with the pandemic, writes Dr. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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