TaSHI: empowering EU health policies on task shifting, 2021-2024

Duration: Apr 2021 - Mar 2024

Aim

The TaSHI project aims to provide new understanding and up-to-date knowledge on task shifting and the transferability and uptake of good practices in implementation.

Objectives

The specific objectives of TaSHI are:

• to provide a novel understanding and up-to-date knowledge on task shifting and on transferability and uptake of good practices in implementation.
• to apply different methods of analyses in order to provide added value on the concept, notion, and implementation of task shifting at EU level, national level and regional level.
• to perform pilots at five implementation sites to gather evidence and data on the different types of task shifting (e.g. working time re-allocation, re-considered scope of practices in primary care, mental health care, radiology and ophthalmology, benefiting from telemedicine and digital health).
• to aim to facilitate dialogues and knowledge exchanges between the relevant stakeholders.
• to deliver a collection of good practices, useful tools and methods, a guidebook on task shifting supporting the real-life implementation, case studies on the pilots’ experiences, practical training materials and curriculum, and a set of recommendations.

Project partners

The international TasSHI Consortium consists of 7 organisations:

• Semmelweis University, Hungary (leading partner)
• AGENAS, National Agency for Regional Health Services, Italy
• Nivel, Netherlands
• University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
• Ministry of Public Health, Republic of Litouwen
• Ministry of Social Affairs, Estland
• PoliS-Lombardia, Regional Institute for the Support of Lombardy's Policies, Italy

Results

The TASHI project will deliver several reports, (web)publications, articles, fastheets and webtools, reporting on a collection of good practices, learning tools and methods, a guidebook on task shifting supporting the real-life implementation, case studies, practical training materials and curriculum, and recommendations for task shifting. See the international project website: Tashproject.eu