AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoHealth-care workers’ pay dispute: Estonia’s health-care unions say collective-agreement talks failed and will move to the national conciliator, arguing planned 2027 minimum-wage funding would be used to balance the Health Insurance Fund budget—raising fears of worsening shortages of nurses and doctors. Mental health access: Estonia is relaunching a chaplain hotline as demand stays high; SKA reports nearly 1,000 contacts a month for victim support lines in early 2026, and from Friday people can call 126 for chaplain support. Research funding for health tech: Estonia’s Research Council will start 65 TemTA R&D projects worth €50.6m, including work on health technologies, with researchers partnering closely with companies through 2029. Data privacy and public registers: Estonia’s Interior Ministry has begun publishing a machine-readable dataset of personal data for people who died in the past 100 years, prompting questions about risks as scams and AI-enabled fraud rise. AI and youth wellbeing: A large JAMA Pediatrics study links affective generative AI use with mental health problems in children and teens, warning against treating AI as an emotional refuge. Public health workforce planning: The pay fight and ongoing demand for emotional support underline pressure on Estonia’s care system.
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