study on effective recruitment and retention strategies for health
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Paul Giepmans, Policy Analyst, EHMA
Study on Effective Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Health Workers
Consortium
• European Health Management Association • Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) • Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Portugal) • King’s College London (England) • Royal Tropical Institute (the Netherlands)
Objectives of the study
• To document and analyse the challenges of recruiting and retaining of professionals in the health sector – Creating places where people want to work
– Recruiting young people; retaining the ageing workforce
– Recruiting to underserved areas, and less popular practices
• To review possible future interventions on R&R
• Contributes to the successful implementation of the EU Health Action Plan at country level
Output of the study - 1 report including:
• An overview of recruitment and retention practices in the EU Member States, the EFTA countries and 3 non-EU countries (Brazil, South-Africa and Australia)
• In-depth analysis on how successful practices were implemented and what contextual factors facilitated or hampered their success
• Policy and management recommendations
Timelines
• Start: January 2014 | Delivery: March 2015
• Literature review will be finished during the next weeks
• A protocol for case studies has been prepared and implementation will start in June
• Small group of experts convened last week
• Review of policy & management recommendations February 2015
Literature review (1)
Identification
• Literature: 17,752
• websites: 23,496
• Input informnts
1st screening
• Literature: 3,534
• Websites: 737 Include in case of doubt
2nd screening
• 819 docs in total
Analysis
• 76 docs with a direct, highly relevant link to R&R
Literature review (2)
2nd screening
BVS & PUBMED
Web Total
Primary studies + Review 131 23 154
General descriptions of interventions
71 96
168
Policies and plans 8 21 29 Advocacy + context + international recruitment
312 157
468
Total 522 297 819
Case studies (1)
• Results in lessons for “good practices” and areas for improvement – Recruitment and retention interventions (in-depth analysis) – In their implementation and transferability (how?)
• Provides more insight into interactions between policy and organisational levels
• Provides primary material for recommendations/options
Case studies (2)
• 8 in-depth case studies of R&R interventions • Topics/themes covered coming forward from literature
review • Both ‘source’ and ‘destination’ countries • Case studies are well suited to study complex phenomena
within their natural context • Data collection: desk research & site visits
