Health professional mobility and health systems: evidence from 17 European countries

The mobility of health professionals affects the performance of health systems and increasingly so since the European Union (EU) enlargements in 2004 and 2007. This publication presents research on the gaps in knowledge about the numbers trends impacts and policy responses to this dynamic situation in particular in Austria Belgium Estonia Finland France Germany Hungary Italy Lithuania Poland Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Turkey and the United Kingdom. Conducted within the framework of the European Commission s Health PROMeTHEUS project the research posed a set of questions of key inte