The EU has developed some training programmes for health professionals with the specific aim of improving health services for migrants and ethnic minorities. These programmes have been developed in collaboration by institutions in Spain, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands and have been tested in these countries as well as in Poland, Romania and Slovakia. They […]
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This article ‘Health professional mobility in the European Union: Exploring the equity and efficiency of free movement’ looks at the effects of health professional mobility in terms of efficiency and equity implications at three levels: for the EU, for destination countries and for source countries. The analysis suggests that there is a risk the free
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Following a public consultation, the independent Expert Panel, which gives non-binding advice to the European Commission on matters related to effective ways of investing in health, has adopted a final opinion on “Competition among health care providers – Investigating policy options in the European Union”. The Expert Panel addressed the role of competition among health
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The European Commission has commissioned a study to identify and analyse effective strategies for recruiting and retaining health professionals to serve as inspiration for the development of organisational strategies and human resources policies in Europe. Many EU countries report difficulties both in retaining and recruiting health staff, although reasons vary as to why. For some countries,
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The European Working Time Directive lays down minimum safety and health requirements for the organisation of working time in the EU by, for example, establishing that all workers have the right to a limit to weekly working time of 48 hours. However, it also contains the possibility for Member States to allow for the opting out
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The European Commission has commissioned a study: Recruitment and Retention of the Health Workforce which aims to identify and analyse effective strategies for recruiting and retaining health professionals. The study recognises recruitment and retention of health workers as an immediate and urgent problem which needs to be addressed by policy-makers, healthcare managers and healthcare workers.
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This 2013 European Company Survey by Eurofound: Workplace practices: patterns, performance and well-being, surveyed managers in over 24,000 organisations and in nearly 7,000 of these, employee representatives were also interviewed. It found that establishments that use joint employee-management decision-making on daily tasks, have a moderately structured internal organisation, make a limited investment in human resource management but have
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Pay for performance (P4P) is increasingly used to improve efficiency and service quality in health systems but evidence is limited that it increases value for money, boosts quality of processes in health care, or improves health outcomes. This book uses 12 case studies from P4P programmes in OECD countries to explore the many questions surrounding
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This study has mapped and reviewed the continuous professional development and lifelong learning of doctors, nurses, dentists, midwives and pharmacists in the 28 member countries of the EU and EFTA countries. It describes the policy background to the topic, reviews available literature and illustrates the outcomes of a Europe – wide survey and expert workshop,
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