Health and Social Services
Health and Social Services (HSS) is a large and diverse sector that encompasses a wide range of services including hospitals, child care, community health services, social work and care homes for older and disabled people. EPSU represents health and social services workers across Europe, including nurses, health care assistants, midwives, doctors, elderly and child care workers, social workers, laboratory staff, hospital cleaners and medical secretaries. We organise in public, non-for-profit and private services.
EPSU is the recognised European social partner organisation for workers in the hospital and health care sector throughout the European Union.
Adam Rogalewski is the EPSU Policy Officer for the sector. The President of the EPSU Standing Committee for Health and Social Services is Kirsi Sillanpää, Tehy, Finland, and the Vice-Presidents are Yolanda Gil of CC.OO (Spain), Dietmar Erdmeier of Ver.di (Germany) and Razvan Gae of Sanitas (Romania). You can get their contact details here.
Find out who is your national EPSU representative for health and services below.
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EPSU- HOSPEEM code of conduct and follow up on Ethical Cross-Border Recruitment and Retention in the Hospital Sector
signed 7 April 2008 [see social dialogue section->art3715] {N.B.: The document has been made available in 12 languages (as of October 2011): EN, FR, DE, ES, RU, SV, BG, CZ
Second stage of the consultation of the social partners on protecting European healthcare workers from blood-borne infections due to needle stick injuries
{{ {{{REPLY European Federation of Public Services Unions (EPSU) Second stage of the consultation of the social partners on protecting European healthcare workers from blood-borne infections due to needle stick
EPSU Comments on the European Commission (EC) Proposal for a Directive on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare
Adopted by the EPSU Executive Committee on 26 November 2008 Introduction On the 2nd of July the EC published its proposal for a Directive on cross-border healthcare. This text was
Declaration of the Executive Committee of the EPSU on the draft directive on the application of patients' rights in cross border healthcare
Adopted by the Executive Committee 21 April 2009, Brussels See the declaration in our section : Health Care for All - EPSU campaign on cross-border healthcare directive