In the fall, 70 people converged on the west coast of Norway to participate in a meeting about a special GP training for rural medicine. Five GPs came from Iceland, as well as Miles Mach (current chair for Royal College for General Practitioner Scotland and GP in Dingwall). In addition, a representative from Orkney […]
Month: February 2018
Recruit and Retain: Making it Work Workshop – October 24th, 2017
In October 2017, the Norwegian team had an MiW-workshop in Bergen with the three participating municipalities in the project: Meløy, Odda and Årdal. The municipalities were are all satisfied with their results so far. The project has helped them reorganise their GP services, they have improved their communication with the GPs and increased the number […]
MiW-project presented at the Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Dublin
Sigurður Einar Sigurðsson from the Icelandic team presented the “Making It Work” project in November at the Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Dublin. Nearly a hundred people took part in the conversation and report review. Discussion on issues with recruitment and retention was enthusiastic, recognizing the commonality between sparsely populated areas of […]
