EQAVET Sectoral Seminar –
Quality Assurance in the Healthcare
sector in Europe
23-24 May 2011 Stavanger, Norway
Kim Faurschou
Agenda
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Introduction
The Healthcare sector
Healthcare and quality assurance
Four key themes for this seminar
Aims and objectives
A new approach
The table discussions
After the seminar
Kim Faurschou, FACO
Roles
• Critical friend
• Process consultant
• Expert
On-going/recent activities
Work for
• The European Commission (Belgium)
• The EQAVET Secretariat, Ireland
• CEDEFOP (Thessaloniki, Greece)
• European Training Foundation (Torino,
Italy)
• Nordisk Ministerråd
• A number of ministries and
organizations in Denmark, Sweden,
Austria, Lithuania, Slovakia, England,
Scotland, Wales, ……
• Mapping and analysis of ISCED level 4
and 5B post-secondary vocational
education and training in Europe
(Myndigheten för yrkeshögskolan,
Sweden)
• The new quality assessment system.
(Utdanningsdirektoratet, Norway)
• Implementation strategy for ECVET in
England, Wales and Scotland (The
Scottish Credit and Qualifications
Framework Partnership, Scotland)
• Study on quality assurance of
apprenticeship (ENQA-VET, Ireland)
The Healthcare sector
A wide range of types of education and training:
• human health activities (hospital, medical and
dental practice), residential care (residential
nursing, residential care for mental
retardation, health and substance abuse for
elderly and disabled) and social work
activities.
Healthcare sector in Europe - 1
• Many are facing skills shortages
• Employ about 10 % of the total workforce
• Rising health spending against more than 10 %
of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Change in the ways healthcare is delivered
• Dynamic markets: demographic change,
economic conditions, reforms, funding,
earnings and worktime
Healthcare sector in Europe - 2
• Changes in responsibilities and powers
• Merging of smaller hospitals to larger ones
• Growing number of private healtcare
providers
• Political demand for accountability and control
• Out-patient care
• Difficult to recruit and retain people
Healthcare sector and quality
assurance – a balance between
Quantity and Quality
Theory and Practice
Medical staff and Non-medical staff
Work-based training and School-based education
Qualifications supply and Competence demand
Domestic workforce and Migration
Recruitment and Replacement demand
Hospital-based care and Community-based care
Healthcare sector and quality assurance
Key themes for this seminar
1. Models for the training and for quality
assurance and development in the
enterprises, institutions, local and regional
authorities
2. The trainers in the enterprises/institutions
3. Documentation of the quality
4. Managing labour market needs and skills
supply
Aims and Objectives
• To improve and develop quality assurance
systems
• Support to the National Reference Points in
the implementation of the EQAVET
Recommendation
• Build on your experiences in the Healthcare
sector
Aims and Objectives 2
• Reflect on how quality assurance of VET is
addressed and managed within the
Healthcare sector.
• Generalise the outcomes of our discussions
• Generate guidelines that are accessible,
transferable, suitable and relevant
• Extract messages in relation to the use and
implementation of the Reference Framework
A New Approach
• Many new participants, faces and
organisations
• Focus on continuing VET
• A lot of room for discussion and for feed-back
from the participants
• Not heavy focus on papers
• EU arrangement in Norway
The Table discussions
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Give room for your discussions, experiences
To inspire
To be inspired
A number of questions is presented
After the seminar
• A policy paper with
– Overview of the challenges and conditions to
succeed in the Healthcare sector
– Overview of how quality assurance is addressed
and managed in the Healthcare sector
– Guidelines and principles for supporting quality
assurance in education in the Healthcare sector
– Guidelines and principles for the National
Reference Points in implementing the EQAVET
Recommendation involving the sectors