{"id":843,"date":"2011-09-06T16:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/v2\/?page_id=843"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:33:28","slug":"health-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?page_id=843","title":{"rendered":"Health Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"843\" class=\"elementor elementor-843\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-10 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1ae11bec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1ae11bec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-100 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct  elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e333e99\" data-id=\"e333e99\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-478c7f8e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"478c7f8e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Health is increasingly a global matter, and it is not surprising that the European Union is developing a Europe-wide health strategy and related policies. The nurses believe that the objective of any EU health services initiative must be to promote and ensure high quality care to citizens. Therefore, the EU legislative initiative must address the ethical recruitment of nurses, patient safety and quality care standards.<\/p><h4>Health Services<\/h4><h6>EU Directive on Patients Rights in Cross-Border Healthcare<\/h6><ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/EFNPolicyStatementonPatientsRightsinCross-BorderHealthcareDirective-EN-final102008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Policy Statement<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/EFNPositionStatementonthePatientsRightsinCross-BorderHealthcareDirective-EN-final102008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Position Statement<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h6>EU Health Services Initiative<\/h6><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SummaryoftheEFNResponsetotheEUHealthServicesInitiative-EN-finalrev092007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Position Statement<\/a> (Summary of EFN Response)<\/li><\/ul><h6>Services Directive<\/h6><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EFNPolicyStatementontheServicesDirective-EN-finalrev092007-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Policy Statement<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EFNPositionStatementontheServicesDirective-EN-finalrev092007-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Position Statement<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HPPGJointstatementServices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Position Statement<\/a> (Joint Statement Sectoral Professions)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><h6>Public Health<\/h6><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EFNPolicyStatementonPublicHealth-EN-finalrev092007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Policy Statement<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EFNPositionStatementonPublicHealth-EN-finalrev092007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFN Position Statement<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health is increasingly a global matter, and it is not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-843","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":849,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?page_id=849","url_meta":{"origin":843,"position":0},"title":"EU Institutions","author":"efn efn","date":"September 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the main objectives of EFN is to advocate for synergies in policy making, between the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the World Health Organisation of the European Region. 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