Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
Graduated as registered nurse in 1984, he obtained a Master degree in Nursing Science at the Free University of Brussels in 1989, and a Master degree in Statistics from the Catholic University of Brussels in 1996. In 2014, Paul got his Doctoral Degree at the Kings College University of London. From 2018, Paul has a visiting professorship at Hopkins (US-Baltimore) Since 1984 he worked full time as a Registered Nurse in a centre for children with muscular disease. He was a Head nurse Neonatology in the Al Hada Hospital in Saudi Arabia from 1990 up to 1992. On his return from the Middle East, he was appointed as a staff manager at the Free University hospital of Brussels, and part-time delegated to the Belgium Ministry of Health and Environment, where he was responsible for developing a national comparable data warehouse for nursing, introducing qualitative indicators within the hospital financing system based on DRGs and providing nursing data for political decision-making in value based healthsystems. In 2002, Paul De Raeve was appointed as General Secretary of the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN). EFN activities relate to the promotion and protection of nurses and the nursing profession with particular reference to the EU. Paul main lobby activities relate towards ensuring that nurses and nursing is central in the co-design and implementation of the European Health Policy in the field of education, workforce, and quality and safety, including digitalisation of health and care. In 2014, Paul De Raeve became coordinator of ENS4Care, a European Thematic Network focussing on evidence based guidelines for e-services in healthcare. More Erasmus+ and H2020 became part of EFN end-user co-desing approach. The EFN Secretary General was appointed by the EFN members as Secretary General of the European Nursing Research Foundation (ENRF), making sure EU policy design and research evidence go hand in hand.
Work with EU Institutions to design EU health and workforce policies fit for purpose, benefitting EU citizens, in particular nurses throughout the EU. EU policy outcomes will impact on 3 million EU nurses.