Joint Action Closure event  & Plenary Assembly

 

Dear All,

 

On behalf of the Joint Action Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting we would like to thank you for your participation at the Joint Action Closure event with the title “Towards sustainable health workforce for Europe” along with Plenary Assembly and Stakeholder forum that was held in Mons, Belgium on 3rd and 4th May, 2016 and was co-funded by the European Health Programme.

 

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Downunder, you can find the speakers presentations along with the programme of the Closure event, list of attendees and all the practical information related to the event.

 


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PROGRAMME

TUESDAY, 3 MAY

 

 

9:30 – 10:45 – Conference opening & Political speeches

Michel Van Hoegaerden, Joint Action Health Workforce Programme Manager, FPS Public Health, Belgium

Speech of Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

Speech of Christiaan Decoster, FPS Public Health, Belgium

Speech of Mario Mikloši, Ministry of Health, Slovakia

 

10:45 – 12:00 – Joint Action: its rationale, outcome and sustainability vision

Rationale, history and overview of the main outcome of the Joint Action
Zuzana Matlonova, Ministry of Health, Slovakia

 

Joint Action Sustainability and future steps
Prof. Todorka Kostadinova, Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria

 

Questions & Answers session

 

13:00 – 14:15 – Joint Action Stakeholder forum

Zuzana Matlonova, Ministry of Health, Slovakia

Prof. Todorka Kostadinova, Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria

 

14:45 – 17:00  – 2 parallel sessions:

 

 

JOINT ACTION RESULTS ON DATA FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE HEALTH WORKFORCE

JOINT ACTION RESULTS ON PLANNING METHODOLOGIES

 

Data for the current workforce

Zoltan Azsalos, Semmelweis University, Hungary

Dr. Zoltan Cserhati, National Institute for Health Development, Hungary

 

 

 

Panel discussion with Zoltan Azsalos, Dr. Zoltan Cserhati, Matt Edwards, John Fellows, Prof. Lieve Peremans MD, Dr Ronald Batenburg, Pieter-Jan Miermans

Moderator: Matt Edwards, Department of Health, UK

 

Pilot Project in Portugal

Filomena Parra, Central Administration of the Health System, Portugal

 

 

 

Pilot Project in Italy

Annalisa Malgieri, Ministry of Health, Italy

 

 

Panel discussion on lessons learnt and benefits of the experimentations

with Paolo Michelutti, Annalisa Malgieri, Mara Timofe, Heinz Rothgang, Melanie Böckmann, Edmond Girasek, Eszter Kovacs, Filomena Parra, Ana Paula Gouveia

Moderator: Giovanni Leonardi, Ministry of Health, Italy

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY

 

 

09:00 – Building the Knowledge & Sharing Expertise for a Sustainable Health workforce

Andrzej Rys – DG Health and Food safety – European Commission

 

09:15 – Health Workforce Policies in OECD Countries

Gaetan Lafortune, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

 

09:30 – Contribution of the Joint Action to Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health and cross-policy dialogues

Jim Campbell, World Health Organisation

Dialogue supported by a Panel of experts

 

11:15 – UN Secretary General High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth – panel and consultation

Jim Campbell, World Health Organisation

Dialogue supported by a Panel of experts

 

14:00 – Joint Action Management Review

Tina Jacob, FPS Public Health, Belgium

Michel van Hoegaerden, FPS Public Health, Belgium

 

15:15 – Evaluation of the Joint Action

Prof. Johanna Lammintakanen, University of Eastern Finland

Andrew Xuereb, Ministry for Energy and Health, Malta

 

15:45 – Closure speeches

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Velkeniers, UZ Brussels, Planning Commission, Belgium

Michel van Hoegaerden, FPS Public Health, Belgium

 

 

Venue of the meeting:

Mons International Congress Xperience

Avenue Mélina Mercouri 9 – 7000 MONS  

 

Here you can find:

Programme of the Closure event

Practical information