Recruitment of health workers in rural areas – a must to watch

Recruitment of health workers in rural areas – a must to watch for policy makers and leaders

Recruitment of health workers in rural areas is a global problem. A good beginning to identify problems in recruitment and retention by 7 countries coming together for doing a survey as mentioned below has just started.

There are many more interesting stuff on their website http://www.recruitandretain.eu/ – a must to watch for policy makers and leaders besides survey details as posted below.  

Aims & Objectives
Recruit and Retain is a project which sets out to find solutions to the persistent problem of difficulties in recruiting and retaining high quality people to work in the public sector in the remote rural areas of Northern Europe. The core project will address issues and solutions with respect to health care workers. The Recruit and Retain Strategic Management Group will identify areas within the core project work which are applicable to other public service workers. This will relate to those people working in education, the social services, the fire and emergency services and local government civil servants and will constitute the additional work of the Strategic project.

Within its core service package innovative approaches to

• training
• professional development and skills maintenance
• combating isolation
• securing social and family stability

will be sought, advanced and tested. This will allow a novel long term service provision plan for all public sector workers to be developed in the form of a business model capable of being adapted to differing regional contexts at both a regional and national level.

Survey to commence into recruitment and retention of healthcare workers
A multi-national project, which aims to find solutions to the persistent problem of difficulties in recruiting and retaining high quality healthcare workers for the remote rural areas of Northern Europe, is set to move into a new phase of gathering important information on key issues affecting recruitment and retention.

Further notes: The Recruit and Retain project is resourced through the European Regional Development Fund.

For further information please contact:
Deanne Gilbert
Ext: 2460
deannegilbert@nhs.net

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