Following the historic adoption of a resolution at the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe in Astana, Kazakhstan, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe has issued a comment in The Lancet outlining the 5 factors causing the current health workforce crisis, together with the 5 actions needed to overcome it. 

Written together with colleagues from WHO/Europe, the article explains how the newly adopted Framework for Action prioritizes the need to retain and recruit health workers to tackle the crisis, outlining policy actions to improve the working conditions of health and care workers to reverse the labour, mental health and gender equality crises. 

The authors remain optimistic that if actions are taken now to transform the European Region’s health workforce, its health systems can become stronger, more resilient and more able to meet the growing and changing needs of patients.

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