National Health Service Confederation
The NHS is the U.K. member of HOSPEEM. The NHS Confederation brings together and speaks on behalf of more than 560 NHS organisations which plan, commission and provide healthcare for the people of England. The NHS is the biggest employer in the UK, employing over a million staff in England alone.
As a major employer, the NHS is particularly impacted by employment legislation and policy, for example on health and safety and work/life balance, and has contributed actively to HOSPEEM’s social dialogue with EPSU and liaison with the European Commission and Parliament on these topics. Like other healthcare employers across Europe, the NHS faces challenges such as an ageing population, ageing workforce, rising demand and staff shortages, and find sharing approaches and solutions to these challenges with other European healthcare employers extremely valuable. NHS also both contributes to and learn a great deal from HOSPEEM and EPSU’s successful projects promoting continuing professional development and lifelong learning for healthcare staff, and tackling work-related stress and musculo-skeletal problems.
