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Healing the health workforce: A call to action for EU institutions
Mariano Votta, Director of Active Citizenship Network, is calling on new EU Institutions to tackle the health workforce crisis.
Civil organisations, patients' advocacy groups (PAGs),...
How UK nurses moving to Australia is bleeding the NHS dry
The exodus of UK nurses moving to Australia is becoming increasingly prevalent, accounting for a substantial proportion of nursing staff who have left the...
NHS Emeritus pilot scheme aims to reduce elective care wait times
The NHS is taking proactive measures to address the prolonged waits for elective care by encouraging retired doctors to return to the health service.
The...
The NHS workforce is more diverse than ever
New figures reveal that the NHS workforce is more diverse than ever recorded in history, according to an annual report into race equality across...
One in seven NHS staff are actively trying to leave
A new University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR) report into NHS staff retention finds that more frontline workers are trying to leave now...
Health Europa Quarterly Issue 23
Welcome to Health Europa Quarterly Issue 23, which features fascinating expert insights in the fields of infection control, future pandemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance, women’s health,...
New research group aims to improve patient safety concerns
A new research group, combining professionals from the University of Leeds and Bradford will tackle challenges associated with patient safety.
In a joint venture between...
NHS set to boost GP workforce with thousands of new staff
Thousands more staff will be recruited as part of an expansion of the GP workforce ahead of winter, aiming to free up time to...
Healthcare workers more likely to suffer from burnout during COVID-19
A new study found that healthcare staff working during the COVID-19 pandemic are up to 3.3 times more likely to feel burnout compared to...
Patient Safety Conference: daring to look beyond medical staff fatigue
In light of the Patient Safety Conference taking place in Stockholm in October, Dr. Adriano Friganovic, President of the European Specialist Nurses Organisation (ESNO) and...
The University of Essex launches a project to tackle racism in healthcare
To tackle racism in healthcare, a new project has been launched aimed at confronting the issue of racism in the NHS.
A long-term issue in...
Advancing nurses’ expertise on antimicrobial resistance
Ber Oomen, executive director of the European Specialist Nurses Organisation spoke to Health Europa about the organisation’s AMR, vaccination and infection prevention focus group and...
62% of emergency medicine workers have one symptom of burnout syndrome
A new survey has revealed concerning statistics about the burden of burnout syndrome in emergency medicine workers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a detrimental impact...
UK award substantial funding to safeguard adult social care this winter
The UK government has revealed that it will be providing considerable funding to support the adult social care sector throughout winter, a particularly challenging...
Frontline workers need better mental health support, experts say
Researchers have called for urgent improvements to mental health support for frontline healthcare workers in England.
A team of psychiatrists and psychologists from University College...
Certified, high-quality PPE for healthcare professionals
ASAP Innovations represents the healthcare PPE provider of choice – credible, reliable, and most importantly, certified.
ASAP Innovations is a leading manufacturer of medical PPE...
MoU facilitates health innovation and medical societies collaboration
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is aiming to facilitate the closer collaboration of the health innovation community and medical societies in Europe.
EIT Health...
UK nurse and student training to receive £25m boost
Nurses and healthcare students in the UK are set to benefit from expanded virtual training and the launch of a new national critical care...
The added value of simulation-based training in healthcare
Simulation-based training is an important part of the development and learning process of knowledge and skills. For example, a pilot learns to fly in...
Healthcare workers to help tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Healthcare workers will help a global taskforce that has been established to combat vaccine hesitancy by tackling misinformation.
The project led by the University of...
