{"id":19246,"date":"2025-10-10T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19246"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:03:18","slug":"launch-of-the-who-europe-report-on-the-mental-health-of-doctors-and-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19246","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the WHO Europe Report on the Mental Health of Doctors and Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the side-lines of the WHO Europe Regional Committee Meeting, WHO Europe has today launched the new <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/items\/7324bf3d-479f-426c-bd5d-861129616859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report on the Mental Health of Doctors and Nurses<\/a> in the EU, based on over 100,000 surveys collected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, the EFN Secretary General highlighted the work being conducted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/keepcaring.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KEEPCARING Project<\/a>, which aims at improving the resilience and mental well-being of healthcare professions through several key intervention, \u00a0like the <a href=\"https:\/\/keepcaring.eu\/a-team-based-approach-for-fostering-healthcare-professionals-well-being\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prosocial Job Crafting Intervention<\/a> 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\u2019s 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the side-lines of the WHO Europe Regional Committee Meeting,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19745,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19745","url_meta":{"origin":19246,"position":0},"title":"Protecting the nurses\u2019 mental health: moving from data to evidence-based policy and frontline action","author":"efn efn","date":"May 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The WHO Europe Mental Health of Nurses and Doctors (MeND) survey, based on over 90,000 responses collected from the 27 EU Member States, Iceland and Norway, revealed the extent of the nursing workforce\u2019s mental health crisis : 1) One in three nurses report symptoms of depression or anxiety; 2) Three\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-31-at-15.58.19.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-31-at-15.58.19.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-31-at-15.58.19.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-31-at-15.58.19.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-31-at-15.58.19.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20043,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=20043","url_meta":{"origin":19246,"position":1},"title":"European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2026","author":"efn efn","date":"October 19, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks the start of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2026. This year, EFN is raising awareness on mental health as an official campaign partner of the EU-OSHA Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2026-28, focusing on preventing psychosocial risks in the workplace. 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