2025/2062(INI) Own-initiative report First reading

An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector

Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.

Where it stands: Parliament adopted the text on 17 September 2026. This is its final position on the matter.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 13 March 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 3 June 2026
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 11 June 2026
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 17 September 2026
  5. ✓ Parliament’s position Final
How a file moves through Parliament

A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. The adopted resolution is Parliament’s final position; it is not itself law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
SANT — Public Health
Rapporteurs
Loucas FOURLAS PPERuggero RAZZA ECR
Shadow rapporteurs
Estelle CEULEMANS S&DMargarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN PfEFrancesco TORSELLI ECRIrena JOVEVA RenewMaria OHISALO Verts/ALEKathleen FUNCHION The LeftAndrás Tivadar KULJA PPEMarta TEMIDO S&DMarie-Luce BRASIER-CLAIN PfEVeronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ RenewTilly METZ Verts/ALEGiorgos GEORGIOU The LeftChristine ANDERSON ESN

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

The text, version by version

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA10-0312/2026 17 September 2026 ✦ 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.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0168/2026 11 June 2026 ✦ 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.

Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: 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. see the changes →

Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.

Timeline

  1. Plenary stage
  2. 17 September 2026 Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

    Sitting of 17 September 2026 📄 Report A10-0168/2026
  3. 17 September 2026 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 17 September 2026 📄 Report A10-0168/2026📄 Adopted text TA10-0312/2026
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 514 Against 61 Abstained 33

    Final vote — text as a whole at 13:18 · 85% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 23 ballots

    adopted rejected lapsed square = amendment circle = part of the text decisive vote Solid = roll call (click for every MEP’s vote); faded = no individual positions

    Show all 23 ballots in voting order
    1. Separate vote: paragraph 1 § 1
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    2. Amendment 1 13:14 A10-0168/2026 – Loucas Fourlas, Ruggero Razza – After § 1 – Am 1
    Rejected
    3. Separate vote: paragraph 2 § 2
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    4. Separate vote: paragraph 5 § 5
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    5. Separate vote: paragraph 5 § 5
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    6. Separate vote: paragraph 5 § 5
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    7. Separate vote: paragraph 6 § 6
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    8. Separate vote: paragraph 17 13:16 A10-0168/2026 – Loucas Fourlas, Ruggero Razza – § 17
    Adopted
    9. Separate vote: paragraph 20 § 20
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    10. Separate vote: paragraph 21 § 21
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    11. Separate vote: paragraph 23 § 23
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    12. Amendment 2 13:17 A10-0168/2026 – Loucas Fourlas, Ruggero Razza – After § 29 – Am 2
    Rejected
    13. Separate vote: paragraph 33 § 33
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    14. Separate vote: paragraph 33 § 33
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    15. Separate vote: paragraph 33 § 33
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    16. Separate vote: paragraph 33 § 33
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    17. Separate vote: paragraph 33 § 33
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    18. Separate vote: paragraph 37 § 37
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    19. Separate vote: paragraph 51 § 51
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    20. Separate vote: paragraph 53 § 53
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    21. Amendment 3 13:18 A10-0168/2026 – Loucas Fourlas, Ruggero Razza – After § 55 – Am 3
    Rejected
    22. Separate vote: recital AH Recital AH
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    23. Final vote — text as a whole 13:18 A10-0168/2026 – Loucas Fourlas, Ruggero Razza – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  4. 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.

    📄 Amendments 1–3
  5. 11 June 2026 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A10-0168/2026
  6. Committee stage
  7. 3 June 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

    SANT (Public Health) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  8. 5 November 2025 Amendments tabled in committee (3 batches)

    Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 CJ54-AM-777013📄 CJ54-AM-779481📄 CJ54-AM-779516
  9. 1 October 2025 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 CJ54-PR-776849
  10. 13 March 2025 Referred to the SANT (Public Health) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.