Appropriately qualified and skilled healthcare professionals are key to building and strengthening resilient health systems that are able to react to and cope with 21st century challenges such as the green and digital transition, workforce shortages, ageing societies, and a raising number of non-communicable diseases, just to mention a few. Healthcare professionals can make the systems achieve the highest attainable standards of health, improve health service coverage, and help make communities more resilient against health system shocks. The health workforce also plays an important role in contributing to the preparedness and response to emergencies, such as governments’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and disasters, in particular through participation in national health emergency management systems, local leadership and the provision of health services.
In 2020, Health First Europe (HFE) along with European Health Management Association (EHMA) joined forces to launch the EU Health Policy Platform (EU HPP) Thematic Network on ‘Profiling and Training the Healthcare Workers of the Future’ to gather insights on the main challenges European healthcare professionals face and promote good practices on how to overcome them.
This event will represent the official occasion to release the new Report of the EU Health Policy Platform Stakeholder Network on ‘Profiling and Training the Healthcare Workers of the Future’, which is based on the exchanges and discussions conducted with the members. The paper presents the current and future skills needs of the health workforce which these Network members identified as essential.
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