CONSULTATION: Human Resources for Health Network
The RCN was pleased to be able to input into the formulation of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) global strategy on human resources for health in 2015. In our response to this, the RCN made a robust, evidenced case that the global nursing workforce needed stronger attention, and that the development and involvement of robust professional associations/trade unions - such as the RCN - had a vital role to play in delivering this strategy.
We were very pleased that the follow-up draft strategy, which is due to go before the WHO’s Executive Board, contains a much stronger focus on the need for a larger, better educated nursing workforce and a recognition that professional associations and/or trade unions will play a vital role in supporting and driving this plan.
We believe that this latest consultation from the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) – the body which supports WHO in areas related to human resources – sets a positive precedent for setting out how the global strategy is to be delivered once GHWA’s mandate for operation expires in 2016.
For further information please visit the Global Health Workforce Alliance website.
RCN Staff Lead: Christian Beaumont
Page last updated - 16/12/2019
