The European Commission has initiated a series of European Reference Networks (ERNs) to share expertise in specific medical areas. Any group of at least 10 healthcare providers established in at least 8 Member States were invited to submit an application to establish an ERN in a given field of expertise and 23 such groups have […]
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Ensuring global access to proven interventions – including vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics, as well as prioritising the development of new health technologies – requires an assessment of whether the improvement in health outcomes they offer exceeds the improvement in health that would have been possible if the resources required had, instead, been made available for
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Life expectancy now exceeds 80 years in most EU countries according to the new report “Health at a Glance: Europe 2016“, but these are not always healthy life years. Around 50 million people in the EU suffer from several chronic diseases, and more than half a million people of working age die from them every
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The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) is holding its annual conference in Brussels on the 7th September 2017. The title of this year’s conference is ‘Make Health your Business: People, Power, Money, Policies’ and registration is now open. To find out more about the ‘Make health your business‘ conference on the epha.org website
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21-23 September 2017, Venice, Italy The European Pathway Association is organising an International Master Class on Care Pathways and the Organisation of Care Processes. This two day event will focus less on pathway basics (unlike previous master classes), but will make the link with other relevant and current topics (Triple Aim, Pathways for health, Value
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There are two new reports from the OECD in the ‘Health at a Glance’ series: Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 which is the fourth edition looking at health in the EU and presents key indicators of health and health systems in the 28 EU countries, 5 candidate countries to the EU and 3 EFTA
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The new psychoactive substances (NPS) market has increased so fast that existing drug control laws have been left behind. European countries have responded in a variety of ways: some have introduced new legal responses to NPS, based on existing consumer or health protection laws, or laws governing medicinal products, while others have developed innovative new
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Small countries with limited budgets have found new ways of engaging with the media to support the implementation of international agendas on health. Examples include: Welfare Watch – Iceland National experts from different sectors developed a set of social indicators on the country’s current and future health and social care needs and the Ministry of
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Across Europe, 16 patients die every day waiting for the organs they need. However, there were over 800 more organ transplants in the EU in 2015, compared to 2014. This confirms an encouraging trend, with over 4000 additional transplants over 5 years, a 14{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} increase compared with 2010. The ‘EU Action Plan on Organ Donation
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Health systems are continually being reformed but why? And how? An article in ‘Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries’ analyses the impact that health-reform initiatives have had on the quality and safety of care in low-, middle- and high-income countries—Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, England, Ghana, Germany,
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