WHO offers a prescription for tackling the health workforce crisis, but will the UK take the medicine?

Governments across Europe must act now to tackle a crisis in the health workforce. That was the message from Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, in a new report launched at the WHO Regional Committee in Tel Aviv in September 2022.1 While we have become used to comparisons of rich countries, in the EU or OECD, this is the first attempt to describe the situation across all of the region’s 53 member states, including those that emerged from the Soviet Union. The report covers the six groups of health and care workers for whom comparable data are available (medical doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, and physiotherapists), but notes the need for data on the other groups in the health workforce. It proposes 10 actions to strengthen health workforces (footnote).Its messages are especially relevant to the UK. October 2022 saw the NHS reach a grim milestone, with seven million people…
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