DGSMP/EUMASS CONGRESS 2010

Managing sick leave in Europe – Round table September 24

Berlin, 24. September 2010

On the 24th of September 2010 at the EUMASS Congress 2010 the Medical Advisory Service of the German Health Insurance (MDS) will arrange a round table to encourage people from European countries being in charge of managing sick leave and Return to work (RTW) to enrich the project. You can download the flyer of the round table and our German country table concerning RTW issues on the sidebar.

Sick leave of salaried workers is an important economic and public health problem in many European countries. A work group of 20 experts from ten European countries introduced an international exchange concerning this issue. The latest milestone in this project was a meeting in Berlin in March 2010 where key questions were extracted.
We are looking forward to receiving your ideas and contributions for the discussion prior to the congress. Until August we will add the tables of the other countries in our work group. Feel free to use the tables below on this website for the preparation of the round table. There you can find information about sick leave and RTW in different European countries. These were composed for the meeting of the project in March.

At the round table the chairpersons will present the key findings of the project in March and start a discussion concerning the following topics

• Certification and qualification of professionals
• Sick leave and return to work
• Cooperation among the professionals

If you have some comments beforehand we will be glad to consider them in our convention. The comments can be forwarded to us in English, German or French.