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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European social dialogue: Multi-sectoral guidelines to tackle third-party violence and harassment related to work
EPSU, UNI europa, ETUCE, HOSPEEM, CEMR, EFEE, EuroCommerce, CoESS December 2011 - >for the Guidelines in all languages (EN/FR/DE/NL/ES/SV/DK/FI/IT/PT/EL/BG/HU/RO/SK/SL/LT/LV/PO/EST)
EPSU Project "Cross-border mobility and recruitment of health workers" (2011-2012)
Dear Colleagues/Chers Collègues/Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen/Estimados Colegas/Bästa kolleger, Please find below questionnaire on opportunities and challenges related to the cross-border mobility and recruitment of health workforce in Europe addressed to
European health workers must not be the scapegoats of the crisis. Decent work is needed to improve Europe's health
(19 October 2011- Press Communication) The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) held the biggest gathering in 2011 of health workers in Europe to discuss the effects of the