Recruit and Retain
Recruitment and
Retention of Health
Care Providers in
Remote Rural
Areas
Recruitment and
Retention of Health
Care Providers and
Public Service
Sector Workers in
Remote Rural
Areas
Objective
Recruit and Retain is a
project which sets out
to find solutions to the
persistent problem of
difficulties in recruiting
and retaining high
quality front line health
care providers for the
remote rural areas of
Northern Europe
Recruit and Retain is a
project which sets out
to find solutions to the
persistent problem of
difficulties in recruiting
and retaining high
quality people to work
in the public sector in
the remote rural areas
of Northern Europe
Partners
NHS Western Isles
Stornoway, Scotland
Agency for Health Protection
Nuuk, Greenland
FSA Akureyri Hospital
Akureyri, Iceland
Helse Finnmark Health Trust
Finnmark, Norway
County of Västerbotten
Umeå, Sweden
Partners
NHS Western Isles
Stornoway, Scotland
Agency for Health Protection
Nuuk, Greenland
FSA Akureyri Hospital
Akureyri, Iceland
Helse Finnmark Health Trust
Finnmark, Norway
County of Västerbotten
Umeå, Sweden
University of Aberdeen, Centre for Rural Health
Inverness, Scotland
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Sudbury, Canada
Cooperation and Working Together (CAWT)
Ireland and Northern Ireland
Finance
Main Project
Total Project Budget
Strategic Project
Total Project Budget
€ 1,752,691
€ 2,997,271
ERDF Intervention Rate
for EU Members 40:60
ERDF Intervention Rate
for EU Members 25:75
To Pursue its Objective Recruit and
Retain will obtain information on:
– why health care workers are reluctant to consider working in a
remote rural area
– why health care workers are pleased to be working in a remote
rural area
– what health care workers require to start working in a remote
rural area
– what health care workers require to continue working in a
remote rural area
– why health care workers leave a position in a remote rural area
Products and Services
advertise and promote the opportunities for health care workers in remote
rural areas and emphasise positive aspects of working in this challenging
environment
develop ways to reduce professional isolation by traditional and innovative
methods
include a holistic perspective which incorporates “buddying” for new
recruits and long term professional mentoring for established employees
generate urban rural partnerships, links with universities, professional
training bodies and service providers to underpin the remote rural health
care service
find ways to support spouses, social networks, housing, child care and
schooling
encourage the development of systems which enable local remote rural
populations and local authorities to support their health care service
workers
Outcomes
The products and services described will be developed,
tested, validated and implemented with health care
workers, areas of applicability to the public service sector
will be identified by the Strategic Management Group.
Business plans for private/public organisations to deliver a
service package for the recruitment and retention of health
care workers and public service sector workers will be
developed.
Methods of Working
Work Packages
1.
Administration – NHS Western Isles
2.
Questionnaire and Data analysis – Iceland
3.
Professional solutions
a)
b)
4.
Social, domestic and environmental solutions
a)
b)
5.
Sweden
Highland
Greenland
Ireland
a) Business plan (health care) – Scotland
b)
Business plan (public service sector) – Strategic Management
Group + NHS Western Isles
Methods of Working
•
Workshops
–
–
–
–
–
•
Scotland Autumn 2013
Iceland Spring 2012
Greenland Autumn 2012
Norway Spring 2013
Sweden Autumn 2013
Mini workshop
–
Canada January 2014
•
Strategic Management Group
•
Videoconferences
•
e-mail contact
Strategic Management Group
Partner
Person
E-mail
1
NHS Western Isles,
Scotland
Andrew Sim andrew.sim@nhs.net
2
Agency for Health and
Prevention, Greenland
3
FSA Akureyri Hospital,
Iceland
Jon Helgi
Bjornsson
jonhelgi@heilthing.is
4
Helse Finnmark Health
Trust, Norway
Andreas
Hellesø
andreas.helleso@ffk.no
5
County Council of
Vasterbotten, Sweden
Roland
Gustafsson
roland.gustafsson@storuman.se
6
Centre for Rural Health,
Inverness, Scotland
David
Heaney
d.heaney@abdn.ac.uk
7
Northern Ontario School
of Medicine, Canada
Roger
Strasser
strasser@nosm.ca
8
Cooperation & Working
Together, Ireland
Linda
linda.saunderson@westerntrust.hscni.net
Saunderson
Strategic Management Group
• Strategic Management Group Representatives
– Will meet at least twice a year at workshops
• Strategic Management Coordinator
– Reports to Recruit and Retain Steering Committee
• Strategic Management Remit
– Monitor the core work of Recruit and Retain
– Indentify areas of synergy
– Take products and services to the public service for evaluation
and piloting
– Produce a business plan for public service sector workers
Final Conference
The Way Forward for
Recruiting and Retaining
Health Care Workers in
Remote Rural Areas
Sweden
Autumn 2013
Solutions to the Problems
of Public Service Worker
Recruitment and
Retention in Remote
Rural Areas
Venue to be decided
Spring 2014