ENC's First General Assembly Meeting of the Year is going to take place in Rome, the 17th of this coming July, at the kind invitation of our Italian member, FNOPI. The statutory meeting is going to be held in the morning and in the afternoon a meeting with the Presidents of the Italian Regional Nursing [...]

Dear Friends, In an era of mounting pressure on healthcare systems, innovation is pushing back on multiple fronts. VR training is proving more effective than traditional methods at preparing nurses for violent patient encounters, whilst Paris-based startup Parallel raised 20M USD to automate hospital administration with AI — freeing staff for what actually matters. [...]

Dear Friends, WHO Europe is proposing steps to help fix the continent’s nursing shortage. The increasing interest of WHO Europe for us renders absolutly necessary a close collaboration between it and the ENC. The board will soon take initiative towards this direction. The EU’s cancer plan does not seem to work correctly. Women’s health [...]

Dear Friends, In this News From Brussels. we are sharing with you some very interesting news from the other side of the Atlantic via our American Observer Member TruMerit. Our colleagues from TruMerit will be with us at the end of the year in Dublin but already before that we are aiming to organise [...]

​Dear Friends, It seems that the EU has decided to give Healthcare at least a big part of the attention it deserves. As you will see, in this first News From Brussels of the year, the European Commission has recently proposed an ambitious health-related package of measures, and the European Parliament’s Public Health Committee [...]

There are very interesting evolutions concerning pharmaceutical policy and rules in the EU, and I do believe that we are directly concerned, especially as nurses get the right to prescribe in ever more countries, in a context marked by the need to invest in healthcare systems. Our member ONI has a new President, elected [...]

Many European countries are raising healthcare expenditure; the European Commission is co-operating with the Pan-American Health Organisation to respond to serious cross-border public health threats; it is very possible that the cardiovascular health plan will include new taxes on highly-processed high fat sugar and salt foods. Last but not least, congratulations to the President [...]

The Athens Declaration The undersigned Regulatory Bodies of Nursing, gathered in Athens for the third International Meeting of Nursing Regulators, have adopted, at the initiative of the European Nursing Council, the following declaration: Nursing Regulatory Authorities are profoundly concerned by the serious challenges that the shortage of nurses in many of our countries brings [...]

The European Commission seems to take very seriously preparedness and responses to health crises. The theme is going to occupy a central part of the coming Union Plan for which you can still provide feedback. At the European Parliament, SANT Committee has discussed the results of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. In France, our member [...]

In this latest News From Brussels, Eurostat has published VERY interesting data on Nursing, the European Committee of the Regions has addressed the shortage of Healthcare Professionals, and the effort on accessing medicines at the EU-level is ongoing. PDF