““Many European countries will face similar challenges in the health care services, with an aging population and a stable or declining working age population. The Norwegian Directorate of Health is therefore happy to be able to participate in JA HEROES, in order to share experiences and learn from other countries, in order to improve our […]

“What is your personal motivation in HEROES? Our intention is to develop a dynamic forecasting model for healthcare workforce in Estonia.” — Bert Bauer, expert, Estonia

“The capacity of health systems to deliver health services and meet the changing demands of care strongly depends on the availability of workforce with the right skills and flexibility. The HEROES Joint Action is here to improve the health workforce planning capacities of European countries to ensure accessibility, sustainability, and resilience of healthcare services. I […]

“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.“ — […]

“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 […]

“HEROES is the joint action that is strengthening EU Member States capacity to better organise and plan their health workforce to meet future health system challenges. All 19 countries involved in the action are working to create a more resilient and flexible health workforce. At the end of the action, they would be able to rely on solid databases, […]