Traduction de «Agence communautaire de soins infirmiers » (Français → Anglais) :

7. Calls on the Commission to analyse how the healthcare systems can meet the objective of providing access for all to high-quality treatment for which there is a demonstrable need within reasonable time limits, with special reference to the problem of the interconnections between health insurance schemes for people who move to another Member State and/or take employment in another Member State and/or come to the "end" of their working lives as frontier workers; anticipates that the collection of statistics and comparable data would make it possible to develop effective cooperation between the Member States, which would lead to best practice being applied; considers that such a Community monitoring system should be established by extendin ...[+++]g the remit of an existing Community agency that would collaborate with networks operating in the Member States or internationally, and with the help of EUROSTAT;

I would close by calling on everyone to reflect on what has been said regarding the need to remedy as soon as possible the nursing shortage in the European Union, the need to meet the quality criteria for care specified in the Community action programme by providing higher training, and the need to respond to the specific employment needs of the citizens of the Member States with solutions such as mobility and retraining, looking, where these prove inadequate, to human resources from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

That being so, it should be stipulated in the sectoral Directives that recognition by a Member State of a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualification awarded to a nurse responsible for general care, dental practitioner, veterinary surgeon, midwife, architect, pharmacist or doctor on completion of education and training in a third country and professional experience gained by the person concerned in a Member State constitute Community elements which the other Member States should examine.

The Commission's comments on the French rules relating to the training of psychiatric nurses do not mean to assess the quality of that training, since there is no Community legislation laying down the minimum standards for such training to be met by Member States.

Action had to be taken, however, because the French rules enable psychiatric nurses to obtain the official qualification for nurses responsible for general care, whose training is subject to binding Community provisions laying down minimum standards (Directive 77/453/EEC); the training of psychiatric nurses must therefore meet those standards in this case. France has not replied to the letter of formal notice which the Commission sent to it on this matter on 16 January 1996.

The 44,000 members of the Hospital Employees' Union work in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and community health and social service agencies across British Columbia.