Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

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;

30 a. Calls on enhancement of pan- European cooperation in medical education, including the setting up a separate Erasmus exchange program for medical schools, which could contribute to skills...

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

10. Supports the development of telemedicine and AI, including the necessary infrastructure and equitable access, as a complementary tool for in- person care, to address healthcare...

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...

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...

D a. whereas monitoring and effective control mechanisms of the internal EU labour market are suboptimal; the voluntary control mechanisms of the WHO Global Code of Practice (WHO, 2010) are...

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

9. Urges the Member States to optimise the use of EU and national funds and to provide packages of financial and non-financial incentives for attracting and retaining...

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...

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...

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,...

20. Calls for a life cycle approach to medical and nursing careers, supporting education and structured progression from initial roles to leadership, calls for greater recognizing role of...

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...

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

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

– 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,

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

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address workforce shortages by (i) improving retention and attraction by improving working conditions and pay, career...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

19. Recommends the introduction at EU and national level of incentives for doctors, nurses, midwifes, dentists, pharmacists, paramedics and other non- medical professionals who complete...

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 the Manifesto for a European Health Union (November 2020),