Health and Social Services, Social Services
Health and Social Services (HSS) is a large and diverse sector that encompasses a wide range of services.
The Social Services aspect includes activities which are mainly to do with Long Term Care (LTC), Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), community health services, care homes for older and disabled people and social work. In addition, we work in establishing and providing support for European Works Councils in private, not for profit and public care homes. EPSU Social Services Sector represents care workers across Europe, including health care assistants, workers in all types of care homes, child care workers and social workers . 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 and Samantha Howe is the Policy Assistant for Social Services. The President of the EPSU Standing Committee for Health and Social Services is Kirsi Sillanpää of 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 also get their contact details here. -
Action Day against the commercialisation and privatisation of health services: "Our health is not for sale!"
Brussels, 7 February/10 March 2014 On 7 February 2014, at a [European Action Day->http://www.gezondheid-solidariteit.be/node/265?language=fr] held at Brussels, organisations supporting the “European Network against the Commercialisation and Privatisation of Health, Social
40th meeting of the Standing Committee on Health and Social Services
23 January 2014, Luxembourg Jean Monnet Building, Room JMO M1, Plateau du Kirchberg, Luxembourg (confirmed by EC Services LUX on 29 November 2013) PRACTICAL DETAILS AND REIMBURSEMENT MODALITIES Colleagues representing
Financial & Economic Crisis and Austerity Measures - Impacts on Health Care Systems, the Health Workforce and Patients
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39th meeting of the Standing Committee on Health and Social Services
15 October 2013, Luxembourg INTERPRETATION Interpretation has been confirmed by the EC Services for English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Swedish (active) and Dutch, Greek and Italian (passive). {{PRACTICAL DETAILS