On the side-lines of the WHO Europe Regional Committee Meeting, WHO Europe has today launched the new Report on the Mental Health of Doctors and Nurses in the EU, based on over 100,000 surveys collected.
This report, which is the first of its kind for size and scope, clearly underlines the seriousness of the mental health crisis affecting nurses and doctors, identifying the core risk factors, with shortages on the lead.
As one of the panellists in this important webinar, which featured more than 200 online participants, the EFN Secretary General made a strong appeal to WHO Europe and to EU and European policymakers to not limit ourselves to data collection, but to use the data to support concrete actions.
In particular, the EFN Secretary General highlighted the work being conducted in the KEEPCARING Project, which aims at improving the resilience and mental well-being of healthcare professions through several key intervention, like the Prosocial Job Crafting Intervention to improve the workflow of nursing teams, being developed in Work Package 4, with leadership of Erasmus University Rotterdam, or the iWORK.Comp intervention being developed in Work Package 5 by the University of Coimbra to tackle toxic leadership. The EFN Secretary General’s message to WHO and EU and National leaders was clear: look at the concrete work being done in KEEPCARING and upscale it throughout the EU!