Allied health: Essential health-care and social services for all Manitobans
You’ll find MAHCP’s 7,000+ members in virtually all health-care settings: on ambulances, in hospitals and ICUs, clinics, labs, community, and long-term care.
Allied health professionals are a diverse group of specialized providers working in emergency response, diagnostics, assessment, treatment and therapies, rehabilitation and recovery, across almost 50 professions and in hundreds of classifications.
- 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?
- Received radiation therapy for cancer or counselling for mental health support?
Allied health professionals want to be there for Manitobans when you need us, as MRI technologists, social workers, physiotherapists and cardiovascular technicians. As midwives, medical laboratory technologists, and spiritual care providers. This is allied health.
We’re calling on government to fix the staffing crisis.
Allied health professionals already struggling to deliver the essential services Manitobans need and deserve because of critical vacancy rates, the increasing demands of more severe patient acuity, and ballooning workloads.
And when our province loses professional/technical and paramedic allied health staff to other opportunities, they are very difficult to replace. We cannot afford to lose anymore specialized health-care staff.
Let’s get Manitoba health-care back on track.
MAHCP is calling for the development of a full health-care human resources strategy for Manitoba, addressing key areas for allied health investment:
- Fund a new competitive contract for allied health. (UPDATE:
- Fund improvements to employee benefits, without passing the financial burden on to employees.
- Commit to the development of an Allied Health Workforce Plan.
- Expand and promote training opportunities for high-demand allied health professions.