EFN Press Release – 12 May 2016
On International Nurses Day, EFN argues that nurses are in a position providing the evidence for improving health and social ecosystems resilience!
Nurses are the largest occupational group in the health sector, providing frontline care, 24 hours/7 days in a roll, 365 days a year. Therefore, when redesigning health and social care ecosystems in the EU and their financial mechanisms to guarantee quality and safety, it is critical to foster nurses solutions to strengthen integrated care and workforce development.
To improve health outcomes, and measure them, to safeguard the “value of health and social care systems”, nurses need to be frontline for policy design and implementation. Politicians and policy-makers better embrace frontline ideas and initiatives to make policy-outcomes fit for purpose.
EFN would even argue it is timely good practices led by nurses become upscaled to move towards resilient ecosystems, their where people live and work! By doing this, nurses aim at bringing Europe closer to its citizens and citizens closer to Europe.
For more information please contact:
Dr Paul De Raeve,
Secretary General,
European Federation of Nurses Associations,
Email: efn@efn.be
Tel: +32 2 512 74 19
Web: www.efnweb.eu