HEROES Joint Action
HEROES Joint Action (HEalth woRkfOrce to meet health challEngeS), is dedicated to be a worthy successor of the JA Health Workforce and the SEPEN Joint Tender. These projects have achieved important results in the field of planning and forecasting of health workforce in the recent years. Continuity is indicated in this website as HEROES JA took over healthworkforce.eu serving as a guiding platform of the health workforce field, where results of the previous projects remain also available.
Lisa Baldini
programme and financial manager agenas| italy
“HEROES is probably going to be the core of all European initiatives focusing on health workforce. HEROES is the Joint Action that aims to improve the capacity of EU Member States to better organise and plan their health workforce. The goal, that is being pursued by the 19 participating countries, is to have robust databases, appropriate planning methodologies, effective stakeholder involvement and to further improve skills of health workforce planners. The strength of this Joint Action lies in the exchange of good practices and experiences to produce results that can help all EU Member States to improve their expertise and capabilities, thus creating a European community of experts which has the potential to overcome the challenges on the issue of the health workforce planning.“
Ronald Batenburg
professor | nivel| the netherlands
“This Joint Action creates the opportunity for countries to effectively learn from each other. Not only from good practices but also from countries that share the same healthcare system and health workforce challenges. This principle of ‘country learning clusters’ will improve the cross-fertilisation and country support, which needed more than ever to mitigate the extraordinary pressure on our health workforces today.”
Dora Toth
senior expert| okfő | Hungary
“Optimizing the human workforce in health care is one of the biggest challenges today. I believe that the methodologies and health policies set up in the HEROES project and the knowledge transfer between Member States will help to bring about major system changes for a better healthcare environment with the joint effort in Europe.”
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