STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVEMENT IN SPAIN

Main aspects:

• In the countries with a decentralized planning system, such as Spain or Italy, the involvement of regional stakeholders is very important;
• The Spanish planning system of specialists involves various stakeholders that enrich the discussions and bring different approaches: central, regional and professional;
• The challenge is to tune up the regional instances, reinforced by the regional autonomy, with the needs and the resources of the Country. The challenge is harder if we think that what is planned as health workforce need for each specific region is then threatened by the health professions mobility between regions;
• In the forecasting model, Spain takes into account both the multi-regional dimension and the inland migration. The results of the projections are then discussed in the Human Resources Commission.