Future Proofing Health- and Care Systems Safeguarding Health Care Workers in Hospital Settings

The aim of this project is to (re-)build wellbeing and resilience of the healthcare workforce in EU hospitals in the surgical pathway, and to promote onboarding and staying in the workplace through the following specific objectives:

• to identify new factors that influence job resources, resilience and stress in (aspiring) healthcare professionals;
• to empower the hospital workforce (including students) in the surgical pathway by evaluating the (cost-) effectiveness of existing (digital) tools and by further augmenting these tools based on user insights; and by developing guidance on how to improve individual resilience using these tools in optimal combination fitting personal needs (‘personalised prevention’);
• to support healthcare professionals and students in the dynamics of joint interaction in teams, to identify leadership styles and strategies (‘towards a safer and supportive working place’) towards supporting teams;
• to support hospital organisations to understand what factors to consider - and how they are likely to play out - in making decisions for sustaining a healthy, inclusive and diversified workforce;
• and finally, based on our insights, to develop, validate, and valorise a data-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI)- prediction model to be embedded in an online Change Management Platform (CMP), which is able to forecast which interventions under which circumstances contribute towards a more resilient hospital working environment.