A new cover story published in HealthManagement.org – The Journal shines a spotlight on the growing importance of digital skills in Europe’s health and care workforce and highlights the concrete contributions of the BeWell project to this agenda. The article “Building a Digitally Competent Workforce in Health and Care: Insights from European Regions” by Diane Whitehouse, EHTEL - Principal eHealth Policy Consultant and Editor-in-Chief, explores how regions across Europe are responding to workforce shortages, digital transformation, and burnout by investing in upskilling and reskilling. BeWell features prominently as a practical, pan-European initiative supporting this shift through structured training, pilots, and stakeholder [...]

As with last year, the purpose of this survey is to highlight achievements in reskilling and upskilling, as well as gather your views on making progress and existing support services. Your participation in this survey will greatly help us ensure our Partnership activities are relevant to your needs and increase the impact our collective efforts can have on the upskilling and reskilling of our sector. If you have already registered to the Pact for Skills database, you will have received a link to complete the survey. It is expected to take between 10 – 20 minutes of your time, and [...]

Two productive days at UN City, Copenhagen, focused on co-creating a stronger future for healthcare. Key takeaways include: - From Data to Action: The WHO/Europe MeND survey highlights high mental health risks; the report is now a vital tool to drive policy change on working hours and contracts. - Context & Control: Workforce dissatisfaction is driven less by hours alone and more by a lack of predictability and autonomy. Success stories in flexible scheduling prove safer systems are possible. - Structural Support: Mental health must move beyond "individual resilience." We need structural occupational prevention and confidential peer support without stigma. [...]

The REST-JD Report is the first comprehensive study by the EJD to analyze working time and job satisfaction of junior doctors. The findings reveal a systemic crisis: junior doctors across Europe consistently work beyond both their contracts and legal safety limits. Frequent overtime, night shifts, and the routine denial of weekly rest or annual leave have created a direct correlation between long hours and professional dissatisfaction. These unsustainable conditions are driving workforce burnout and attrition, further destabilizing already strained healthcare systems. The report issues an urgent call for policy reform and stricter monitoring at local and European levels. Improving these [...]

BREATH is a newly launched project aligned with the Pact for Skills, aiming to build a strong and sustainable Talent Ecosystem in Health Innovation (HI) management in Catalonia, Flanders and Lithuania. The project brings together academic and non-academic organisations to drive institutional change and improve researchers’ career development, mobility and talent retention. BREATH will engage key stakeholders to assess labour market needs, skills gaps and current and emerging career paths in Health Innovation. Based on this analysis, the project will develop the BREATH Experience, offering Early-Career Researchers (ECRs) personalised training and tailored career guidance through enhanced university career services. A [...]

We are delighted to welcome Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as the newest partner in the LSP for the Health Ecosystem! As a pioneering, digital-native, and global university, expert in e-learning, for 30 years, UOC has been offering high-quality, accredited online education, and it aspires to develop people's talent throughout their lives, as well as to conduct research with a transformative vision to generate social impact. Together, we strengthen our shared commitment to building a resilient, skilled, and future-oriented health workforce across Europe! Read more about UOC here.

On 19 November in Brussels, the Health Ecosystem LSP convened in Brussels for its third in-person workshop, kindly hosted by the Northern Ireland Executive Office. The event brought together members of the LSP to discuss the evolving skills needs of Europe’s health and care workforce and explore strategies to strengthen the sector in line with the Pact for Skills. The workshop focused on three key themes: funding pathways and opportunities, practical implementation of funding, and rethinking models for long-term skills development and respective financial support. Across three panels, participants examined a wide range of funding sources—from Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, EU4Health, [...]

The BeWell project has been highlighted in the latest issue of Eurohealth (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2025) in an article by Gemma A. Williams, Michelle Falkenbach, and Matthias Wismar from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The article “Transforming Digital Skills and Competencies in the Health and Care Workforce”  explores the urgent need to upskill and reskill Europe’s health and care professionals to meet the demands of digital transformation. As the European Health Data Space (EHDS) takes shape, the authors highlight that the success of this ambitious framework depends on a workforce equipped with the right digital knowledge, [...]