France : due to massive mobilizations of health professionals, the French Labour Ministry created a working group on burnout syndrome in health professionals. Suicide rate among health professionals is significantly higher than in general population.
Italy : The European Commission ( EC ) refers Italy to Court for not respecting the European Working Time Directive ( EWTD ) in the public health system.
Spain : The European Commission requests Spain to respect forensic doctors' rights to maximum working hours and and minimum rest periods.
The SWISSpsy INSTITUTE advocates by means of its working groups for a sound analysis and a re-equilibration between the current paradigms in medicine to guarantee health professionals's health in healthy health systems, which are the key- conditions for patients' safety and public health.
