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International Recruitment of Health Workers to the UK: A Report for DFID: Final Report
Whilst the issue of international migration of health workers is sometimes presented as a one-way linear ‘brain drain,’ the dynamics of international mobility, migration and recruitment of health workers are complex.
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From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: How the WTO can make Migration a Win-Win
In recent months, the debate over foreign workers in the UK has become more heated. While the government argues that more foreign workers will raise growth, protectionists insist that foreign workers are robbing British citizens of jobs. A different question is also asked: how can Africa develop if the brightest and best are leaving? The debate runs a serious risk of trivialising what is a complex set of issues. [from author]
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Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Healthcare Professionals
The aim of the code of practice is to promote high standards of practice in the international recruitment and employment of healthcare professionals. [author’s description]
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Planning Human Resources in Health Care: Towards an Economic Approach, An International Comparative Review
To inform the design and implementation of improved workforce planning systems, a review of healthcare systems and interaction between systems of service delivery and approaches to planning human resources was done in five countries: Australia, France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. These represent different welfare state regimes, and a range of health systems dominated by national taxation, local taxation and social insurance. [from executive summary]
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Whose Charity? Africa's Aid to the NHS
Health services in the UK are benefiting from the collapse of health services in some of the poorest countries of the world due to the widespread and increasing migration of health professionals. Children in these countries are unable to obtain the most basic health services and many die as a consequence. Research summarised in this briefing reveals that current UK policy in this area is ineffective in tackling this inequality. Using Ghana as a case study, it sets out a range of practical suggestions for how the UK Government should respond. [From author]
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Migration of Nurses: Trends and Policies
This paper examines the policy context of the rise in the international mobility and migration of nurses. It describes the profile of the migration of nurses and the policy context governing the international recruitment of nurses to five countries: Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Human Resources and the Success of Health Sector Reform
Though reforms in the health sector have recently been common around the world, their success has, for a variety of reasons, been mixed. The paper aims to examine and explain the importance of human resources (HR) to the success or failure of health reforms using case studies from Russia, Zambia and the United Kingdom. [from abstract]
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Skill-Mix and Policy Change in the Health Workforce: Nurses in Advanced Roles.
This report was commissioned by OECD to examine the evidence on role change and delegation from physicians to advanced practice nurses (APN), nurse practitioners and nurses in other advanced roles in the hospital setting and primary care. The report has three components: a literature review, an assessment of country responses to an OECD questionnaire, and two more detailed country case studies, on England and the US. [author’s description]
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