Online Seminar “United for Resilience in the Health and Care Sectors”

On the 22nd of October 2024, a webinar entitled “United for Resilience in the Health and Care Sectors: Strengthening Support for Formal and Informal Carers and Leaders” brought together key stakeholders from the health and care sectors to address critical workforce resilience issues. This event was organised in collaboration with the EU-funded Support4Resilience, WELL CARE, and APOLLO2028 projects, with support from the Horizon Results Booster (HRB) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health & Food Safety (DG SANTE) and Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL).
The event focused on the sector’s most pressing challenges, including high workload, physical and mental stress, infection risks, job insecurity, rapid technological change, recruitment and retention difficulties, and the heavy demands on informal caregivers—all of which strain the health and care workforce’s sustainability and resilience. Two representatives from the European Commission, Sabrina Montante (DG SANTE) and Jiří Svojše (DG EMPL) provided detailed insights into relevant policy initiatives at the EU level.
The joint webinar underscored innovative contributions from these three projects, funded under the Horizon Europe work programme 2023-2025 aiming to create a sustainable and supportive environment for health and care workers, enhancing their capacity to cope with the demands of their roles and contributing to the overall quality of health care systems.

The detailed report of the event is available here: Support4Resiliencewebinar_report_A4 Final Version

The full webinar recording is available on the HRB’s YouTube channel. Watch the full recording here.