Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2062(INI)
An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector
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Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 17 September 2026. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 13 March 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 3 June 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 11 June 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 17 September 2026
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
17 September 2026 · decision 3
Health, Resolution
An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector
Adopted 514 for · 61 against · 33 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The report responds to a health workforce crisis in the Union, where shortages of doctors, nurses, carers and other healthcare professionals are deepening and becoming structural.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The text now calls for a coordinated approach by the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization and the EU to monitoring the flow of healthcare workers. The other changes are formal: decimal points are replaced with commas in several figures.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Public Health
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Loucas Fourlas (EPP), Ruggero Razza (ECR)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Estelle Ceulemans (S&D), Margarita De La Pisa Carrión (Patriots), Francesco Torselli (ECR), Irena Joveva (Renew), Maria Ohisalo (Greens), Kathleen Funchion (The Left), András Tivadar Kulja (EPP), Marta Temido (S&D), Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain (Patriots), Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová (Renew), Tilly Metz (Greens), Giorgos Georgiou (The Left), Christine Anderson (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 17 Sept 2026
AI summary:Parliament calls for a long-term European healthcare workforce strategy to add at least one million professionals over the 2028-2034 multiannual financial framework, covering an estimated EU-wide deficit of around 1,2 million.
Tabled for plenary· 11 Jun 2026
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on an EU health workforce crisis plan calls for a long-term European healthcare workforce strategy to add at least one million professionals over the 2028-2034 funding period.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
17 September 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 17 Sept 2026 Report A10-0168/2026Adopted text TA10-0312/2026
17 September 2026
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
9 September 2026
3 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
11 June 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
3 June 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
SANT (Public Health) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
5 November 2025
Amendments tabled in committee (3 batches)
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
1 October 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
13 March 2025
Referred to the SANT (Public Health) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2062(INI)