Logo "Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting"The EU Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting (www.healthworkforce.eu), which was inaugurated in 2013 for a period of three years, provides a central platform for the exchange of data, experience and concepts on workforce planning in the healthcare sector among European member states. Since 2013 the Joint Action Executive Board has until now met six times in different European cities; this time, the 7th meeting was held in Bremen. Professor Rothgang and his team, who represent Germany in the Joint Action, hosted a conference at the House of Sciences and the executive board at SOCIUM.
At the half-day conference, the Bremen project group presented its findings from a feasibility study on workforce planning in the healthcare sector and discussed them in the context of European developments in health care. In their study, the group examined the benefits of a European handbook on good practice standards for planning methods and discussed these with representatives from the medical and care professions, the chamber of pharmacists, midwives, the state health authorities and health insurance funds. Paolo Michelutti, project manager for parallel studies in Italy, Portugal and Romania, gave an account of the work of the Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting. Leon van Berkel from the European Commission gave a keynote talk on current EU schemes in the professional healthcare sector.
On 28th and 29th January a Joint Action Executive Board meeting was held at SOCIUM with work package leaders and representatives of the European Commission.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang
SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy
Mary-Somerville-Straße 3
28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-58557
E-Mail: rothgang@uni-bremen.de
