Doctor Retention in Ireland - What It May Mean for the Global Health Workforce Reform Agenda Comment on "Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle"

Abstract

The study of healthcare personnel migration in Ireland reports that most medical graduates plan to leave the country’s health system. It may be possible to address this challenge by understanding and addressing the reasons why young doctors plan to leave. Future studies should contribute to the retention of early career doctors in highincome countries such as Ireland. This will help reduce the migration of doctors from low- and middle-income countries in order to address the global health workforce crisis and its impact on the attainment of universal health coverage in all health systems.

Driving forces of GPs’ migration in Europe: an exploratory qualitative study

“… 8 Both Humphries et al and Taderera emphasised that understanding the reasons why doctors migrate could eventually contribute to much-needed policy changes in service of more robust retention strategies. 26 , 27 …”

“…McAleese et al stated that developing retention strategies is needed in order to stop the need of some countries to actively recruit doctors (8). Both Humphries et al and Taderera et al underlined the fact that understanding the reasons why doctors migrate could eventually contribute to much needed policy changes in order to create these retention strategies (26,27). Ibrahim et al described some pull factors that could result in better retention of expat doctors in the UAE (28).…”

La atención primaria del futuro: ¿qué puede aprender la atención primaria europea de las innovaciones y retos de la pandemia de COVID-19?

“…Más bien parece que existe un flujo de este a oeste, de sur a norte, y que a su vez los países del norte «importadores» de médicos de familia sufren también la emigración de sus propios médicos. Un ejemplo puede ser Irlanda, país que recibe (y recluta activamente) médicos españoles pero que considera perdida la batalla de la retención de sus propios médicos 27 . Siendo este un país desarrollado, su falta de médicos es un foco de atracción para países con un nivel socioeconómico inferior.…”

Doctor Retention in a COVID-World: An Opportunity to Reconfigure the Health Workforce, or "Plus ça change plus c’est la meme chose"? A Response to the Recent Commentaries

“…4 The initiative is a direct response to Ireland's failure to provide the training needed by most of the doctors that it recruits internationally, as required by the Global Code on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel. 1,12 However, inflow and outflow measures and relocation incentives have limited usefulness when confronted with the simple market forces of supply and demand, due to the growing global shortage of health professionals. 13 Radical restructuring and growth in national and thereby the global health workforce are required.…”

“…4 The initiative is a direct response to Ireland’s failure to provide the training needed by most of the doctors that it recruits internationally, as required by the Global Code on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel. 1 , 12 …”