Toronto Region Primary Care Workforce Planning Toolkit
Integrated support for workforce decision-making in the Toronto Region and beyond
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Project Description
The Toronto Region Primary Care Workforce Planning Toolkit is a collection of resources to support integrated primary care workforce planning in Toronto. The toolkit is the result of a collaboration between the Health Analytics team at Ontario Health Toronto and researchers from the Canadian Health Workforce Network. The development of the toolkit was informed by extensive consultation with partners, including the City of Toronto, as well as decision-makers, health system leaders, and primary care providers.
The toolkit provides a body of evidence around the current (and projected future) states of population health needs and primary care service provision at a neighbourhood level within the City of Toronto. The goal of the toolkit is to support providers, planners, Ontario Health Teams and other partners, particularly with regard to deployment of primary care workforce and other health system resources.
Toolkit and Dashboard
The Toronto Region Primary Care Workforce Planning Toolkit is a collection of resources to support integrated primary care workforce planning. The approach addresses population needs and workforce capacity at the neighbourhood, sub-region, and whole city levels, as well as challenges specific to Toronto, such as patient mobility, population growth due to development, and physician retirement.
The interactive dashboard synthesizes data from multiple sources and provides a comprehensive overview of the primary care landscape. In six steps, users can explore community characteristics, primary care service requirements and capacity, alignment, and factors at play before putting it all together and identifying the most pertinent issues for their communities.
Our planning approach is built around 158 Toronto neighbourhoods, which reflects additional neighbourhoods added by the City of Toronto in 2022. Note that some data for these newly created neighbourhoods is not yet available, but will be added as it becomes accessible.
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Need Guidance?
Consult the User Guide for step-by-step instructions and help with undertaking analysis and interpretation of the information in the dashboard. The How-To Playbook for Planning offers additional guidance.
Resources
Primer on Health Workforce Planning
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The Primer on Health Workforce Planning gives an overview of the planning process used in Toronto.
How-To Playbook for Planning
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The playbook builds capacity for planning by highlighting leading practices and providing curated resources, tips, and case study examples.
Primer on Physician Workload (Coming Soon!)
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The Primer on Physician Workload gives an overview of the considerations associated with measuring and converting physician workload from primary care visits to FTEs to support workforce planning.
Phase 3 Final Report (Coming Soon!)
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The Final Report summarizes the activities undertaken in Phase 3 of integrated primary care workforce planning in Toronto.
Additional Resources From Other Sources
Engagement and Impact
Engagement is a leading practice in planning. Ontario Health Toronto is working to build capacity for planning through data, tools, and supports tailored to the needs of local Ontario Health Teams.
Our network of planners includes:
OHT perspective on planning:
Engagement with partners is a leading practice in health workforce planning: What health leaders need to know by Zeenat Ladak, Henrietta Akuamoah-Boateng, Cynthia Damba, Rachel Frohlich, Shelly-Ann Hall, Joy Ikeh, Renata Khalikova, Sarah Simkin, Ruth Trainor, Catherine Yu, and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. In press.
Supplemental Materials
Impact of planning:
More Information
Engagement with partners is a leading practice in health workforce planning: What health leaders need to know by Zeenat Ladak, Henrietta Akuamoah-Boateng, Cynthia Damba, Rachel Frohlich, Shelly-Ann Hall, Joy Ikeh, Renata Khalikova, Sarah Simkin, Ruth Trainor, Catherine Yu and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Integrated Primary Health Workforce Planning in the City of Toronto: Inputs, Process, Outputs and Impact ; Team Primary Care Webinar (November 2024)
Implementing leading practices in regional-level primary care workforce planning Lessons learned in Toronto by Sarah Simkin, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, Cynthia Damba, Nathalie Sava, Ting Lim and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Co-developing an integrated primary care workforce planning approach at a regional level overarching framework and guiding principles by Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe and Sarah Simkin
An integrated primary care workforce planning toolkit at the regional level (part 1) qualitative tools compiled for decision-makers in Toronto, Canada by Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, Sarah Simkin and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
An integrated primary care workforce planning toolkit at the regional level (part 2) quantitative tools compiled for decision-makers in Toronto, Canada by Sarah Simkin, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
For more information about health workforce planning, please visit the Canadian Health Workforce Network website: please visit www.hhr-rhs.ca
Archive
You can access previous versions, resources, and supplementary materials in our comprehensive archive. To explore the archived toolkit, please click here.