The European Evaluation Society (EES) is excited to announce the Evidence and Evaluation Forum, a new initiative designed to strengthen the use of evidence and evaluation in European public policy making.
This Forum will bring together evaluators, researchers, and policy-makers to:
• Identify and share evidence
• Identify knowledge gaps
• Co-create insights to guide better policy-making
First Series:
Dates & timings:
Session # 2: Boosting workforce productivity in the European Health sector
Date: Tuesday 22 July 2025
Time: 10.00 – 11.30 BST
For further details and to book your place, click here.
Evidence for Policy-Making – Addressing the Health Sector Productivity Crisis in Europe
The European Evaluation Society (EES) is partnering with RAND Europe in our first series of the Evidence and Evaluation Forum
This Forum will focus on a critical public policy issue:
Increasing productivity in the health sector in Europe, with particular attention to:
- Evidence for policies for strengthening innovation to drive productivity in the design of health services
- Evidence for policies to boost the productivity of the workforce
The Forum aims to consolidate the evidence already available to policy-makers, identify what gaps need to be filled, and how to apply this knowledge in policy-making. It will highlight existing evidence, especially from evaluations, and also from research. It will inform a publicly available paper intended to assist decision-makers in Europe in policy development. It may also identify specific areas of focus where further evidence and possible evaluations are needed.
The forum reflects the EES commitment to strengthening the use of evidence and amplifying the value of evidence and evaluations in the development and monitoring of European public policy.
The ultimate audience for the Forum is decision-makers, and responsible actors in European institutions, industry, member states, trade unions and patient and public representatives.
Format of the Forum
This is a pilot series entitled, ‘Evidence for Policy-making – addressing the health sector productivity crisis in Europe’. In this series, RAND Europe will prepare a Briefing Note ahead of the sessions, outlining the key challenges and summarising available evidence and sources, which will be shared with participants prior to the session.
This will be followed by two focused online sessions:
- Session # 1: Promoting innovation to strengthen productivity in the European Health sector where we will be joined by Professor Anita Charlesworth, CBE, co-chair of the Health Foundation’s Commission on NHS productivity and acting chair of North-West London NHS Integrated Care Board and Karen Taylor, IPFA, OBE, Director Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions – (already taken place on 15 July)
- Session # 2: Boosting workforce productivity in the European Health sector where we will be joined by Federico Pratellesi, a Policy Analyst in the OECD Health Division and Reinhard Busse, Co-Director and Head of the Berlin hub of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies – on 22 July 2025
The two sessions take a different approach to the question of health system productivity and are intended to be complementary:
- Session 1 on the 15 July focussed on the inter-relationships between innovation and productivity
- Session 2 on the 22 July will focus on the relationships among workforce and productivity
These sessions will uncover powerful insights and will spark ideas for future policy action.
Each session (90 minutes) will feature presentations of evidence from evaluators and researchers, followed by participant discussion. The sessions will be co-chaired by EES and RAND Europe.
Registrants will receive a copy of the Briefing Note prior to the session.
The two sessions will bring together and establish the strength and reliability of existing evidence from evaluations and research. After each session, there will be a Call put out on social media to collect any further evidence.
A final hybrid event (online and in-person in Brussels) will then bring together policy-makers to reflect on the usability and relevance of the evidence presented. Presenters from the earlier sessions will be invited to attend.
For further details about our FREE session # 2 on 22 July and to book your place, click here.