Scenario 4.1: Future Healthcare Labour Market Shortages
According to a new Canadian labour market projection report,there are currently labour shortages in a number of occupations,including those in healthcare,particularly doctors and nurses,at both the provincial and national level.These healthcare occupations have employment and wages increasing substantially faster than in other occupations.Unemployment is very low,less than 1% for many healthcare occupations,relative to historical data and to other occupation data.Regional hospitals across Canada have been proactive by implementing strategies and techniques to deal with these shortages.
-Please refer to Scenario 4.1.What are two human resource external supply estimate techniques that the regional hospitals could use?

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Demographic trends and labour market analysis would be the best human resource external supply estimate techniques for the regional hospitals to use in this scenario. Demographic trends can provide insights into the future availability of healthcare professionals, such as the number of people entering the workforce and the expected retirement rates. Labour market analysis can help to identify current and potential supply sources, such as international recruitment, partnerships with educational institutions, and retention strategies. Delphi and extrapolation techniques are more appropriate for forecasting future demand for healthcare services, while transition matrices and replacement summary techniques and indexation and replacement chart techniques are more suited for internal supply estimation.