Expert Group on European Health Workforce

Brussels

Brussels, 17 March 2016

• Agenda
• Minutes

Presentations

• Recruitment and Retention of Health Professionals in Europe: introduction
  Jeni Bremner
  European Health Management Association
  Marieke Kroezen
  Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

• Case study "Return to Nursing Practice course in Ireland"
  Sandra McCarthy
  Centre for Learning & Development, Tallaght Hospital at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Case study "Attracting Nurses to Practice - the Malta Case"
  Andrew Xuereb
  Ministry for Energy & Health, Malta

• Case study “Social partners-based initiatives to meet the challenges of an ageing workforce, focus on a German experience”
  Mathias Maucher
  European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU)

• Continuous Professional Development & Patient Safety: report and discussion of workshop findings & conclusions, 11 February 2016
  Eszter Kovacs
  Semmelweiss University, Hungary

• Presentation of the European Organisation of Specialist Nurses
  Françoise Charnay-Sonnek
  Secretary General ESNO

• Joint Action Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting : update on activities and follow-up on the sustainability workshop
  Michel van Hoegaerden
  Programme Manager - On behalf Belgian FPS Health, Food Chain Safety & Environment
  Dora Kostadinova
  Medical University Varna, Bulgaria

• Health Programme Work Plan 2016
  Isabelle Dévé
  European Commission, DG Health and Food Safety

• Use of EU Structural and Investment Funds in the Health Sector
  Katarzyna Glowacka-Rochebonne
  European Commission, DG Health and Food Safety

• Report from the OECD
  Gaetan Lafortune
  OECD Health Division

• WHO Global HRH Strategy and UNSG High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth
  Galina Perfilieva
  WHO Regional Office for Europe