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In 2015, a special issue of Health Policy addressed the question ‘where are we going in health workforce governance in Europe?’ [1]. The selected articles stressed the growing attention to the emergent health workforce research in Europe. The special issue presented complex and diverse health workforce reforms and concluded that there was a need for ‘context-sensitive health workforce policies to creatively respond to “local” needs and efficiently use existing tools and expertise’ [1, p. 1515]. In our summary we argued for integrated approaches, which moved ‘the health workforce issues out of the shadow of interest strategies of professional and provider organizations’ [1, p. 1516] and we highlighted the benefits of cross-country comparative research.