Hildigunnur Svavarsdottir & Sigurdur E. Sigurdsson

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Hildigunnur Svavarsdottir & Sigurdur E. Sigurdsson Recruitment and Retention of Remote and Rural Health Care staff: Making it Work ICELAND Business Case REALLY !! WHO WANTS TO MOVE TO THIS PLACE …. IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE???? Why has the project being proposed? There was an opportunity to enhance the cooperation between the hospital and the Akureyri municipality when it comes to recruiting people. Cooperation would work far better then none => 1 + 1 = 3 Providing information about how to work AND live the life in this town What problem/opportunity has been indentified to prompt the project? to organize better important information to newcomers to gain information about the needs of newcomers Background Geography Northern and part of eastern health care area in Iceland but focussing on Akureyri – the capital of the north to start with Population Demographics catchment area 40.000 inhabitants / Akureyri 18.500 inhabitants Health Demographics Life expectancy is 82 years (1 year higher then the region median) Health expenditure per capita is lower then all MIW partner countries Infrastructure and services/amenities Current economic growth ... Target Region/location(s) demographics What is the main aim of the project? The aim is to improve medical (healthcare) staffing and make it sustainable. The implementation takes place through the Seven steps approach including the municipality in the process In what ways is this project specifically contributing to overall aim of RR2:MIW (i.e. improving recruitment and retention in the NPA)? There are signals of better medical staffing in our hospital directly linked with the “application” of this model (one anesthesiologist / 2 surgeons) Aims What are the outputs for the project? Better medical staffing What indicators will you use to determine if outputs have been achieved? The goal is to increase permanent tenures (now 52) by 7 in 2017, by further 3 in 2018 and 2 in 2019. Outputs Recruit and retain business model What are the benefits of the project? The hiring of specialists / cooperation with the municipality / better relationship to the group of doctors who may feel “wanted” How will these be quantified? In the number of specialists hired What are the limitations of the project? Finance / other more exciting opportunities for the doctors Compare the benefit of project compared to ‘doing nothing’. The project has given us more ideas and proven concepts to use in addition to our “traditional” way of recruiting physicians.