Attract skilled workers, retain employees – looking for best practice projects to strengthen the health workforce
09.11.2023 13:37
The Lohfert Prize 2024 is looking for projects that strengthen and develop health workers. The topic of the call is: “Skilled labor shortage as an impulse: strategies for developing and strengthening the health workforce”. Applications for the funding award worth 20,000 euros can be submitted online from now until February 29, 2024.
New to the independent jury of the Lohfert Prize is Sabine Brase, Managing Director of Care - Education - Future at the Ernst von Bergmann Clinic in Potsdam. She follows Joachim Prölß, board member and director of patient and care management at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, who is leaving the jury after five years of successful engagement. The patron is again Dr. Regina Klakow-Franck, former impartial member of the Federal Joint Committee.
In 2024, the Lohfert Prize will continue to honor tried-and-tested concepts that demonstrably contribute to improving quality and patient orientation in healthcare. Professionals, researchers and experts from the health sector are invited to submit innovative ideas and best practices to develop and strengthen the health workforce, improve working conditions and increase the attractiveness of the professional field. The shortage of skilled workers should not be viewed as a problem, but rather as an impetus for positive changes.
New to the jury: Sabine Brase
Sabine Brase comments on her appointment to the Lohfert Prize jury as follows: “I am pleased to be able to represent the perspective of nursing as Joachim Prölß's successor on the Lohfert Prize jury. The Christoph Lohfert Foundation has long promoted the idea of consistently aligning treatment processes to the needs of patients. It's good to see that this idea is gradually becoming established in the industry." Sabine Brase has been Managing Director of Care - Education - Future at the Ernst von Bergmann Potsdam Clinic since April 2023 and previously held various management positions, including at the Oldenburg Clinic. In her opinion, a variety of measures are needed to strengthen the health workforce. “All actors in the health sector are called upon to make health care sustainable. This also includes focusing more closely on the interests of employees. This is the only way to improve the structural and systemic conditions and make the healthcare professions more attractive,” says Sabine Brase. She has long been committed to new management and leadership methods as well as to the academicization of the nursing and therapy professions.
Application criteria and deadline
Participants in health care in German-speaking countries can apply. The application deadline ends on February 29, 2024. Applications are submitted exclusively in German using the application form at www.christophlohfert-stiftung.de assumed. Information and application documents can also be found there. The Christoph Lohfert Foundation will award the Lohfert Prize 2024 on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 as part of the Hamburg Health Industry Congress 2024 (GWK).