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The COVID-19 death toll of health and care workers continues to …

WEBAccording to Amnesty’s presentation, over 4,100 deaths have been identified in 26 European countries. However, this is likely to be a huge underestimate, with under …

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Amnesty International report: health workers face grim death toll

WEBThe voice of 8 million European public service workers. Amnesty International report: health workers face grim death toll. (17 July 2020) A new report from the Amnesty …

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Urgent action needed to retain health and care workers: new WHO …

WEBThe WHO-Europe region adopted a framework for action on the health and care workforce for 2023-2030 at the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Committee in Astana, …

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The Right to health as a fundamental human right needs to be

WEB2 years since adoption of the human right to water – Implement it (6 August 2012) Against the opposition of several European governments and the European Commission the UN …

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Europe’s public health systems: death by a thousand cuts

WEBAs the European voice of health and care professionals, the European Public Service Union (EPSU) calls upon the new Commission to address the public health crisis in its …

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UN Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth

WEBPSI General Secretary Rosa Pavanelli joined co-chairs, the President’s of France and South Africa, François Hollande and Jacob Zuma, as they delivered, on 21 …

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Better working conditions means high quality health care EPSU

WEBEPSU Pan European Health a nd Social Care Conference adopt s declaration for urgent measures to address staff shortages and, to that end, calling for a …

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Europeanisation of health policies and systems: challenges for the

WEBEuropean Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) organises the biggest gathering in 2011 of health workers in Europe to discuss the effects of the crisis on health and …

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Care at work: the ILO's strategy to overcome the care crisis

WEBThe report highlights that further investment in care could create over 300 million jobs by 2035. The past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted what we already knew: …

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EPSU meets Czech Health Presidency of the EU EPSU

WEB(12 July 2022) The Czech Presidency of the EU has a full agenda regarding health and care this autumn. To raise some of the EPSU concerns we met the Deputy Health …

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Coalition to Make Whistleblowing Safe During Covid-19

WEB(12 March 2021) On the 11 March 2021 members of the EPSU Standing Committee on Health and Social Services met for the first time this year to discuss the situation in the …

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Georgia: Health unions fight hospital closures EPSU

WEBThe role of the union can be clearly seen in the long-running campaign to save the Hospital for Burns and Reconstructive Surgery in the capital, Tbilisi. It is the …

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European Health Data Space enters trilogue negotiations EPSU

WEBNegotiations with the Council of the European Union and the European Commission will now begin. The Council recently issued its conclusions on the EHDS, …

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Health Unions discussed lessons learnt so far from the pandemic

WEB(12 May 2021) On May 11 EPSU organised an additional Standing Committee on Health and Social Services. The members of the Committee met to discuss the position …

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Europe’s health and care workers demand action over growing

WEBBrussels, 8 December 2022 - Press release- Health and social care workers demand that EU’s health ministers take urgent action to address the growing crisis of staff shortages …

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‘Health before profits!’ campaign mobilises for World Health Day

WEBOn world health day we say: our health is not for sale! April 7 is World Health Day. Every year, networks of trade unions, citizens' collectives, NGOs and social movements …

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Fighting and challenging privatisation and marketisation of

WEB(5 April 2019) On 1 and 2 April EPSU participated in and contributed to activities in Utrecht and Brussels which were linked to a range of activities of trade unionists and trade …

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ORPEA puts the health of its employees and residents in danger

WEBPress Release ( EN - FR) (Press Release, Brussels, 23 October 2020) While France is experiencing a massive health crisis with 40 000 new Covid-19 cases per day and 165 …

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Re: UN High-Level Panel on Water.

WEBApril 22, 2016 H.E. Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General of the United Nations 405 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017 Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Re: UN High-Level Panel on …

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European Health Action week EPSU

WEBEPSU backs second week of industrial action by UK health workers (21 November 2014) {{EPSU sends solidarity greetings to the hundreds of thousands of health workers …

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Workers in Belgium take action over cost-of-living crisis

WEB25,000 workers marched through Brussels on Friday, 16 December 2022. (16 December 2022) Belgian trade unions took to the streets of Brussels to call for …

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