The International Council of Nurses (ICN), representing the over 28 million nurses globally, strongly supports the WHO Council’s recommendation to treat health workers
as a long-term investment not a short-term cost.

ICN’s newly launched report on the Economic Power of Care shows that investing
in nursing is an accelerator for global growth that could boost GDP by up to 8%.
Elevating the nursing profession can catalyse transformative improvements in
health care delivery, economic development, peace and societal well-being.
Furthermore, achieving effective UHC is heavily reliant on investing in nursing to
meet the required 70 nurses per 10,000 population, a number many countries are
far from.

As countries rebuild and strengthen Health systems and economies, strategic
investment in nursing emerges as a pivotal pathway to achieving sustained growth
and resilience.