Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

19 a. Encourages the EU and member states to better enshrine continuous professional development caused by changing medical and technological landscape in their legislative frameworks and link...

31. Calls for greater support for general practitioners, and primary care staff, public health professionals recognising their role in prevention, disease management...

28. Calls on the Commission to coordinate regular monitoring and forward- looking projections of workforce supply and demand, building on modelling by the Joint Research Centre, OECD reports and...

13 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take measures to minimize brain waste caused by health professionals working in a low- or medium-skilled job positions, for which a...

E. whereas adequate staffing levels are essential to ensure patient safety and protect the occupational health, safety, mental health and well-being of healthcare professionals;

27 a. Recommends for the Commission, Council and member states to ensure sufficient workforce in the healthcare system, demands that the Commission and EPSCO assigns significantly more...

14. Encourages fair labour mobility of HCWF within the EU, facilitated by the Professional Qualifications Directive; considers ethical international recruitment, in line with the WHO Global Code of...

22. Stresses the need for improving human resources for health information systems that provide interoperable and standardised data on the mobility of healthcare professionals, the...

– having regard to SDG 3 of the UN resolution ‘Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ (2015),

15. Calls for the adoption of appropriate measures to implement the Professional Qualifications Directive in order to improve mutual recognition, in particular for general practitioners,...

24. Stresses that digital tools must complement professional judgement, ensuring person-centred and human care;

8 a. Calls for striking a balance between free movement of labour and the risk that medical deserts in EU and neighbouring countries will undermine Universal health coverage on the level of...

F b. whereas, under Article 6 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union the Union shall have competence to carry out actions to support, coordinate or supplement the actions of...

18 a. Calls on source countries to improve the working conditions of their health workers to improve in-country retention and calls destination countries to improve HCWF planning, increase...

12 a. Recommends investing in reliable data and detailed empirical studies on the relationship between remittances, the cost of training healthcare professionals and positive and negative...

25 a. Supports the reorganization of services and patient pathways to optimize the existing health workforce;

32. Insists that reforms respect the principle of subsidiarity and proportionality, while promoting coordination, cooperation and the exchange of good practice at EU level;

5. Calls for the adoption of psychological support programmes to address the high prevalence of depression and anxiety of healthcare workers in the EU and the...

– having regard to Articles 4(2, k), 6(a), 9, 45-48, 53, 153, 165, 166, 168(1) and 168(5) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

F a. whereas, under Article 4 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union shared competence between the Union and the Member States applies in areas of: (b) social policy, for the...

– having regard to the European Commission Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health (2023),

– having regard to the Briefing requested by the SANT committee entitled ‘The Health workforce Crisis in the European Union (September 2025),

8 b. Calls on the Member States to ensure that, in addressing the unequal distribution of the healthcare workforce, (social) right of every healthcare worker in the EU to move to another...

F. whereas digitalisation and upgraded IT infrastructure can support the HCWF, relieve pressure on overstretched systems and improve access in underserved regions;

– having regard to the WHO Europe Resolution on the Framework for action on the health and care workforce in the WHO European Region 2023–2030, (31 October 2023),

8. Recommends that the relevant authorities in the Member States coordinate better to develop integrated regional health strategies, encourages higher efficiency in using instruments like the...

D b. whereas national and pan- European actions to respond to HCWF related problems often remain poorly connected while effective governance and implementation strategies are ill developed or...

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the proper implementation of the OSH Framework Directive7 , considering that one in three nurses and doctors experience mental...

L a. whereas health security concerns are very high among EU citizens, whereas the lack of health workforce is a threat for health security, whereas the Commission has announced the Crisis...

B a. whereas the retirement cohorts in relation to the inflows of new graduates highlight a widening future gap in the group of medical professionals in several countries;