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30.05 2025
Report: Healthcare workers are leaving the public sector despite higher wages

According to the Foresight Centre’s new short report ‘Healthcare Workers’ Movement between Private and Public Sectors’, in other countries, healthcare workers move to private clinics because of higher salaries, but in Estonia, income earned in the public sector exceeds salaries paid in the private sector. This situation, however, is not sustainable in the long term.

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18.02 2025
Report: There is a growing need to involve labour from abroad in healthcare

A recent short report by the Foresight Centre shows that in the coming years, there will be an increasing need to involve foreign workforce in the Estonian healthcare system. Also, the proportion of healthcare workers who work in the private sector and in multiple jobs keeps growing, which in turn reduces the national healthcare system’s capacity and increases patient waiting times.

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