- Approaches to workforce development (including health professional refugees and immigrants) that enable health care organisations to stay flexible across time will significantly enable regional health systems to adapt to developments in medicine and demands on care and prevention that are emerging in future years
- In the shorter term, approaches to employment by health service organisations as an incentive to partners and businesses has the potential to stimulate the development of capable local businesses, strengthening their competitiveness in wider markets and so supporting a positive drive to achieve the goals of the Lisbon Agenda (growth, competition, employment)
- Approaches to employment and workforce development within regions should be linked to and support merging best practice care models e.g. enabling integrated care pathways
- Information on and access to diverse employment models should be made available to regional decision-makers with clear evidence about relevant strengths and weaknesses of the different models
- Workforce development can be done in ways that: help create dynamic local businesses that are competitive in wider markets; boost local employment; widen the skills base; improve workplace & population health; and strengthen social cohesion
