INDICATORS

Notes:
Practising, professionally active, economically active and licensed to practise nursing and
caring personnel are defined according to the Eurostat document: “Definitions and data
collection specifications on health care statistics (non-expenditure data) Version 31 July
2007”.
Practising personnel provide services directly to patients. Professionally active personnel
are practising personnel for whom their education is a prerequisite for the execution of the
job. Economically active personnel are practising personnel as well as personnel who do
NOT use their education for the purpose of the actual job. Licensed to practise personnel are
practicing personnel, professionally active and economically active personnel, as well as all
personnel being registered and entitled to practise their profession.
Absolute number of posts (PP; “head count”) versus number of full time equivalent (FTE)
posts. The number of working hours per week varies between countries, but normally should
not be less than 35 hours. The number of FTE should be calculated by adding the full and
appropriate proportion of part-time occupied posts.
65. MOBILITY OF PROFESSINALS
Definition: Mobility of health care professionals and personnel means the geographical
movement of a health professional from one country to another in order to provide services
or to establish himself/herself in another host Member State. The indicator can be designed
in 2 ways:
(1) The number and proportion of health care professionals emigrating
(2) The number and proportion of health care professionals immigrating.
Calculation: To be developed.
1) Emigration: The number and proportion of health care professionals and personnel
working in another than their county of origin or (permanent) resident country.
2) Immigration: The number and proportion of health care professionals and personnel
working in a given country but originating from a different country (immigration)
Optionally: by profession (see below), by country-country combination(s).
Notes: Important EU-health policy issue. How to define ‘country of origin’ and ‘country of
residence’ has to be decided. The EU legislation has established different
systems of recognition of professional qualifications. Dentists, medical doctors, midwives,
nurses, pharmacists and veterinarians are covered by the so called “sectorial system”, in which
meeting the minimum common criteria of the schooling/training standards defined in the
relevant sectorial directives leads to the automatic recognition of the diploma in each MS.
This mutual recognition of professional qualifications is intended to simplify access to the
market (right of establishment) and to facilitate the cross-border provision of services for all
types of professions.
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