More of us means better care for you.
Allied health professionals are highly specialized members of your health-care team. We want to be there for you when you need us, and we will always do our best to answer your important health-care questions.
But there isn’t enough of us to get you the answers you need.
We’re struggling to deliver the essential services Manitobans deserve because we’re understaffed, burning out, and working with an expired contract – again.
Allied health professionals are an essential part of the solution to our province’s health-care crisis. So we have a question for the Manitoba government: why are you putting health-care at risk?
Who is allied health?
“Diagnostic information is critical to physicians’ work. More than 80% of the information your doctor needs to make a possible diagnosis and design a treatment plan will come from allied health.”
– Jason linklater, mahcp president
We’re MRI technologists, social workers, physiotherapists and cardiovascular technicians. We’re midwives, medical laboratory technologists and spiritual care providers. We’re a diverse group of essential health-care specialists working across 45 professions in hundreds of disciplines.
- Need an X-ray for a suspected fracture, or a cast to heal a broken bone?
- Been given a requisition for blood work?
- Referred for physiotherapy or occupational therapy after surgery?
- Receiving radiation therapy for cancer?
- Seeking mental health support?
You’ll find MAHCP’s 7,000+ members in virtually all types of health-care settings, including in hospitals and ICUs, clinics, labs, community and long-term care.
Share your patient perspective.
If you’ve experienced a health challenge or crisis recently in Manitoba’s health-care system, you know it takes patience and perseverance to go through it and heal. Allied health professionals are part of your story.
Share your patient perspective and help us advocate for important health-care system investments.
Did you experience significant delays in accessing diagnostics or treatment? A cancellation? Or, maybe you want to share positive feedback about an allied health professional who went above and beyond, calming your nerves before a stressful test or supporting you through a difficult diagnosis. Together, we can push for better health-care for all Manitobans.
Our recommendations
Let’s get health-care back on track. We’re calling on Manitoba’s government and health-care employers to fix the staffing crisis, by filling position vacancies promptly, providing competitive wages, and building positive workplace culture.
It’s time to address retention and recruitment challenges, once and for all.
When Manitoba loses professional/technical and paramedic allied health staff to other opportunities, they are difficult to replace. MAHCP is calling for the development of a full health-care human resources strategy, and three key areas for allied health investment:
- Critical retention & recruitment initiatives.
- Improvements to health-care employee benefits to boost Manitoba‘s competitiveness as a health-care employer.
- Expanded training for high-demand allied health professions, including more accessible opportunities and incentives for rural and Northern Manitobans.