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EDITORIAL
I hope you had a pleasant summer, and I am delighted to be back to continue the fruitful collaboration with the HOSPEEM members and staff.
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Before the summer break, the HOSPEEM-EPSU joint project on strengthening social dialogue in the hospital sector was successfully closed with a third regional workshop and a final dissemination webinar gathering around 40 participants over video conference from over 12 EU Member states. Since 2019, the project has contributed to creating an interest in the priorities of national social partners across Europe. It has also shed light on the opportunities at the European level through the European sectoral social partners and the EU bodies.
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These last few months brought some changes to our organisation. I am pleased to welcome Sylvie Slangen (Zorgnet-Icuro, Belgium) who joined our Steering Committee in March, taking over the daily management of HOSPEEM during the Summer. HOSPEEM would like to express its gratitude for her commitment and expertise to our organisation. It was an honour to work with Tjitte Alkema who is leaving us this winter. His contribution to the success of HOSPEEM for the past decade has been extraordinary. His leadership and presence will be sorely missed. In the light of these changes, members of the Steering Committee are welcome to nominate themselves as Vice-Secretary General(s) by 30 September 2021.
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In this edition of the newsletter, you will find more information about the upcoming webinar of our joint multi-sectoral project on the role of social partners in preventing third-party violence well as news from Members, EU News, events and publications for hospital and healthcare employers. This newsletter has been conceived as interactive tools to facilitate the flow of communication, therefore you are invited to send us your contributions for future issues.
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Secretary General of HOSPEEM
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HOSPEEM NEWS
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The key aspects in this response are that European citizens will receive the best possible healthcare and long-term care and can rely on adequate and sustainable pensions in the decades to come to live in dignity throughout their retirement. HOSPEEM and SGI Europe also highlighted that this target is also enshrined in principle 15 of the European Pillar of Social Rights
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Further, members exchanged on national affairs and discussed updates from the HOSPEEM expert groups, the multi-sectoral project on third-party violence and the recent response to public consultations submitted by HOSPEEM.
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On 3 September, HOSPEEM Secretary General Marta Branca met with Ronald Lavater, CEO of the International Hospital Federation, to exchange the organisations’ current and upcoming priorities.
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The discussion particularly focused on the recruitment and retention of the health workforce, including labour migration, COVID-19 and joint efforts to tackle third-party violence in the health sector.
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Steering Committee member and Lead Expert of the OSH Expert Group, Kate Ling, was interviewed in the context of EU-OSHA's in-depth analysis of the findings from the three waves of ESENER on the health sector and how the COVID-19 crisis has affected OSH management in the sector.
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HOSPEEM provided input to the targeted consultation, highlighting that the Programme should focus on initiatives facilitating member states to overcome workforce shortages and medical brain drain. While medical deserts are essential to achieve equal access to healthcare, the underlying factors are workforce shortages and brain drain. Member States needs to recognise the importance of national self-sufficiency by investing in training, recruitment and retaining the health workforce.
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NEWS FROM MEMBERS
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In May 2021, a meeting between Vereinigung der kommunalen Arbeitgeberverbände VKA (Germany) and HOSPEEM Leadership was virtually organised.
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The meeting was an occasion to better exchange on priorities and challenges faced by social partners at national and EU level and to have a comprehensive overview of the collective bargaining mechanisms in Germany. HOSPEEM also hosted a members-only webinar on the topic of collective bargaining in the hospital sector with contributions from Zorgnet-Icuro (Belgium) and FEHAP (France) as well as Eurofound on 25 May. Another HOSPEEM webinar on collective bargaining is planned on 7 October 2021 with a contribution from VKA (Germany).
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Delivered by NHS Employers, the health and wellbeing (HWB) programme promotes physical, emotional and mental wellbeing at work with guidance on a variety of health and safety issues. This program has a large health and wellbeing network specifically for health and wellbeing leads in NHS provider organisations to connect and share good practices across the NHS in England.
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EU NEWS
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The new framework has a strong focus on the health sector, ranging from initiatives to provide updated guidelines for protecting workers against exposure to hazardous medicinal products, to produce an OSH overview of the health and care sector. It also invites the social partners in the health sector to develop a guidance on workers protection from the exposure to hazardous medicinal products, paving the way for developing the online interactive risk assessment (OiRA) tool specifically for the health care sector in collaboration with the EU-OSHA.
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The survey conducted in Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Italy, covering more than 300,000 healthcare workers, aimed to understand, why and how there has been a change in the number, type and location of sharps injuries as a result of the COVID pandemic.
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In the context of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, the review process aims to support the EU sectoral social dialogue to better embrace challenges in the world of work, such as digitalisation and new forms of work. With the support of the HOSPEEM Industrial Relations Expert Group, HOSPEEM already provided input to the process.
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The reporting instruments for Non-State Actors and Private Recruitment Agencies who play a key role in the international mobility of health personnel have been launched to enrich knowledge on the implementation of the Code.
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ATTENDED EVENTS
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FUTURE EVENTS
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- 19/11/2021: TPV project Mid-term conference, Madrid
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- 30/11/2021: SSDC Hospital Sector Plenary
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- 21/10/2021: 1st technical seminar on Sectoral Social Dialogue review process, organised by the European Commission
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- 18/11/2021: 2nd technical seminar on Sectoral Social Dialogue review process, organised by the European Commission
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- 09/12/2021: 3rd technical seminar on Sectoral Social Dialogue review process, organised by the European Commission
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