Later this year, the Centre for Rural Medicine in Storuman, Sweden, will assume responsibility for recruitment of frontline health-care providers and other key positions in the rural part of Västerbotten. This is a joint investment between Västerbotten County Council and the surrounding municipalities, and the foundation for the work will be the “Remote Rural […]
News
Recent news from the project.
New approaches to medical training in Scotland: Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
“To me this was logical. Ninety per cent of healthcare takes place in the community so that’s where 90% of the learning is and where 99.9% of the patients are.” In this recently published article Lewis Mundell describes his experience of being part of the first cohort of medical students in Scotland to undertake a […]
Rethinking Remote: A Community Perspective
Our MiW Scottish Group member Ann Mason and NHS Orkney colleague Dr Charles Siderfin presented their work through poster and presentation at the recent Rethinking Remote conference in Inverness. The presentation “A Community Perspective: The challenges of recruiting health professionals to remote areas and the role a community can play in supporting recruitment.“ was very […]
MiW-project presented at the Grebe Conference “Local Opportunities through Nordic Cooperation”
Heather Urquhart, Researcher, with our Scottish Working Group recently had the opportunity to present our Making it work Project to a range of colleagues and partners at the Grebe Conference “Local Opportunities through Nordic Cooperation” in Thurso, Scotland, on 24th May. Heather was able to share our work with partners and hear about their work […]
Scottish Fellow Contributes in Rural Norway
In May this year, four GP offices in Tromso North Norway, benefitted from the RR MIW network when Scottish Rural GP fellow Hazel Michie arrived from the Isle of Skye, for a two-week stay. In Scotland each year up to a dozen newly qualified GPs are employed by NHS Scotland as Rural GP Fellows. They […]
Nunavut Health Careers Camp
Linked to Canada’s Making it Work project, as part of the Canadian steering committee’s goal to promote health careers among Nunavut youth, the week of February 12-16, 2018, 20 Inuit students from six communities across Nunavut participated in a Health Careers Camp at Nunavut Arctic College (NAC) in Iqaluit. Camp activities took place at Qikiqtani General Hospital and in NAC’s simulation lab and classrooms. […]
Rethinking Remote, Inverness 24th -25th May 2018
The Making it Work: Recruit & Retain team are looking forward to presenting the project and discussing the framework for a sustainable remote and rural workforce at the Rethinking Remote Conference 24th– 25thMay in Inverness. Roger Strasser together with David Heaney , Pam Nicoll and Helen Brandstrop are hosting the Making it work :Recruit and […]
Promoting Rural Careers, Portree, Isle of Skye
NHS Highland Health Board teamed with Portree Job Centre (Skye) to hold a job Fayre in January. Making it Work Scottish team members Claire Savage and Anne Mason, joined staff from NHS Highland’s HR Division to attend the Careers Fayre at Portree Job Centre In on the Isle of Skye. Despite horrendous weather it exceeded […]
International conference on GP training for recruitment and retention
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 […]
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 […]