EurHeCA is the European association that brings together the competent authorities of healthcare professionals such as pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, podiatrists and midwives in the European Union.
The aim of our association is to encourage the exchange of best practices and feedbacks between the competent authorities of healthcare professions, always with a view to safeguarding patient safety. The central role played by the competent authorities in guaranteeing a high-quality healthcare system is at the heart of the commitment of the members of our association.
EurHeCA's members are particularly attentive to the issues surrounding the mobility of healthcare professionals, especially as key actors in the implementation of the directive on the recognition of professional qualifications. The association is working to ensure that quality of care and patient safety are always at the heart of European policies regarding mobility of healthcare professionals, when all too often economic considerations take precedence.
When the European institutions wish to promote the ambition of creating a genuine "Europe of health", and when the adoption of a European strategy for healthcare professionals could be part of the work programme of the future European Commission, the members of EurHeCA wish to stress the need to include all the healthcare professions working to guarantee the quality of care for European patients and public health.
The richness of the regular exchanges within our association demonstrates the interest and the need for dialogue between all the healthcare professions - this is one of the key messages that our association wishes to continue to convey to European public decision-makers!
Pascale Mathieu
President of EurHeCA
On 23 January 2013 the IMCO Committee (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) adopted by a large majority about 30 amendments in the draft report of the MEP Bernadette Vergnaud (groupe S&D, France) on the EC proposal for a directive amending Directive 2005/36 / EC on the recognition of professional qualifications (including a regulation on administrative cooperation in the internal market information system).
About fifty people gathered to hear the proposals and presentations by senior executives addressing a number of today health issues:
The EurHeCA founders met in Brussels to review and sign the necessary documents for the formal establishment of the association whose legal form is an AISBL (International Nonprofit Association). On the basis of these documents, a Royal Decree has been published in the Belgian Official Journal
The health information system in Europe needs to reliably identify the health professionals (among those who have a diploma: those who actually practice a health profession, and those who are in contact with patients). Studies funded by the European Commission (DG Employment) show how it is now difficult to count accurately the number of healthcare professionals in Europe.
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This association EurHeCA (European Health Professionals’ Competent Authorities) has been created in 2011 and consists of European health professionals’ competent authorities.