Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) - Italy (Ratification: 1985)

The Committee notes the information in the Government report concerning Article 1, paragraph 3, of the Convention (voluntary nursing personnel), Article 2, paragraph 2(b) (employment and working conditions), Article 3 (nursing education and training) and Article 7 (adaptation of laws to the special nature of nursing work). It also notes the observation received from the Trade Union Association for Petrochemical and Allied Enterprises with State Participation (ASAP), concerning the general working conditions of nursing personnel in undertakings. It requests the Government to provide additional information on the following points:

Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes that the status of nursing personnel of health institutions that do not, or only partly, come under collective agreements, is regulated under private law, by the Act on Labour Relations and by the Statute of Workers, as far as applicable. Furthermore, these workers have to observe the regulations of the individual curative institutions. The Committee asks the Government to provide samples of such regulations.

Article 2, paragraph 3. The Committee notes from the Government report that the National Health Council has been partly superseded by the "State-Region Conference" attached to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Please indicate how and to what extent the organizations of employers and workers are consulted in this body. The Committee further notes that another part of the former Council's functions will be transferred to the "Agency for Regional Sanitary Services". The Committee asks the Government to communicate the Decree of the Minister of Health, regulating the organization of this Agency. It further requests the Government to provide information on the mechanisms for future consultations with the employers' and workers' organizations within the new Agency.

Article 5. The Committee notes the information on the committees for verification and revision of the quality of services at the national and regional level. It asks the Government to indicate what measures are planned or taken to establish, in accordance with section 2, subsection 2, of the Decree of 13 September 1988, working groups to promote the quality of health care at the level of the individual hospitals, and to indicate the procedures governing the participation of nursing personnel in these bodies.