Health Workforce Challenges – How to strike balance between free movement of labour and risks that medical deserts in EU and neighbouring countries will undermine Universal health coverage on the level of member states and European solidarity

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Health Workforce Challenges – How to strike balance between free movement of labour and risks that medical deserts in EU and neighbouring countries will undermine Universal health coverage on the level of member states and European solidarity

European Institute of Health and Sustainable Development

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Date

30 Nov 2022 14:00 to 16:00

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Conference about Health Workforce Challenges

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Event Type

L - Conference, forum

Event Location

Brussels

Event Description

Supported by the grant from the Open Society Foundations

Live event in Brussels EU parliament facilities combined with on-line Teams environment format

Organizers: The European Parliament member Juozas Olekas, European Institute of Health and Sustainable Development (EIHSD), Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS).

Pan-European media network specialised in EU policies Euroactiv – publicity assistance of the conference.

Scope and purpose

Objective of the event. Investment in health workforce is one of the best buys in public health. Main objective of the event is to identify how to balance free movement of workers as a fundamental principle of the European internal market with assurance that equitable accessibility of health services will be provided (medical deserts irrigated) across all European regions including those of workforce source countries and to discuss the policies, strategies and actions that most meaningfully contribute to the solution of the existing health and care workforce related problems on national and European levels.

Background

Format

Two sessions live event in premisses of the European Parliament, combined with on-line Teams environment

Conference Outline

time in total: 120 min.

Time	Subject	Expected speaker
1-st plenary session, moderator Mathias Wismar
14.00 - 14.02	Opening	Juozas Olekas, Member of the European Parliament
14.02 - 14.04	Introduction and presenting speakers	Moderator Mathias Wismar
14.04 - 14.11	International mobility of health care personnel: trends, problems, most promising policies	Giorgio Cometto, Health Workforce Department WHO
14.11 - 14.18	Health and care workforce in Europe: time to act	Tomas Zapata, WHO representative
14.18 - 14.25	Aspects of health personnel policies that require special attention: safety at work, gender equality, status of auxiliary workforce and informal carers	Hopfe, Maren, ILO, Public and Private Services Unit Sectoral Policies Department
14.25 - 14.32	Equitable training, retaining and distribution of health care personnel: civil society perspective	Corrine Hinlopen, Wemos
14.32 - 14.45	Q&A short interventions from participants of the Conference	Panel, moderator
14.45 - 14.50	How to strike balance between freedom of movement and issues of medical “deserts”	Vytenis Andriukaitis
		Moderator
2-nd plenary session, moderator Mariam Zaidi
14.50 - 15.00	Introduction and presenting speakers	Moderator Mariam Zaidi
15.00 - 15.08	Pan - European solutions in training, recruitment and allocation of healthcare workforce as an integral part of a European Health Union	COVI committee chair Kathleen van Brempt, MEP
15.08 - 15.16	Policies with European value added in health personnel management: member state perspective	Christopher Fearne, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of health of Malta, Online
15.16 - 15.24	European institutions and health workforce in the EU: competencies, actions and vision for the future	Nicolas Schmit, the Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights
15.24 - 15.32	Pan-European health policies key for incoming Elections to the European Parliament	Maria João Rodrigues, President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
15.32 - 15.40	Q&A, discussion	Panel, moderator
15.40 -15.45	Closing remarks	Vytenis Andriukaitis, Juozas Olekas
15.45 – 16.00	Coffee break

For additional information or questions on the content, logistics or technical issues pls. address to EIHSD staff: accordingly: Gediminas Cerniauskas (gcerniauskas57@gmail.com); Romas Buivydas (rbuyvidas@sec.lt) Tamar Gabrielashvili-Cerniauskiene (tngabriel@eihsd.eu)

Audience

Audience of the live event is up to 30 people. Audience expected online is up to 200 people.