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Europe is facing a staggering shortage of doctors and other healthcare workers. Mun-Keat Looi looks at the extent of the problem and what is being done to tackle it “There is no health without a health workforce,” says Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe for the World Health Organization. But this is exactly what the European Union is facing. In 2022, a WHO report drawing on data from over 50 countries showed the overwhelming extent of the health workforce shortage in the region.1 “We could face a crippling shortage of nearly 1.8 million healthcare workers, and the numbers are climbing,” Kluge told the European Health Forum Gastein in September 2023. “In some countries there are just 2.4 doctors for every 1000 people. That’s not a gap. It’s a gulf.” “A shortage of specialist medical practitioners has been identified in 16 out of the 31 countries we are investigating,” says Irene Mandl, head of information and the EURES European employment service unit at th

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