On 20 March a consortium of industry, patients, politicians and NGOs launched a manifesto with a few ideas for the new European Commission. A the event in the European Parliament all invited speakers acknowledged the importance of health in citizens’ wellbeing and the added value of a cross-sectoral approach. In order to achieve a social…
As advised on our Newsflash of Feb. 12th, EHFF has offered a small team to assess a quality tool being used in WP7 of the current Joint Action. There will be 5 site visits, the first of which we are now reporting on. Basia Kutryba has just visited Finland with colleagues from EPF and the…
The EHFF managed project CEMPaC (see website: www.cempac.org) presented a pre-conference workshop on Wednesday 13th, hosted by Jim Phillips and Jeni Bremner, co-Directors of this European Patient Empowerment initiative on ‘Collective Health Literacy- Empowering communities to become health Literate’. It was well attended and there was good interaction between the participants. The following summary of…
By Bernie Merkel, Community Member EHFF It sounded simple enough: the invitation was to write about one major health issue of the last twenty years, what if anything it has taught us, and how things could and should change in the next ten to twenty years. But the problem is that there are so many…
Podcast 1: Climate obligations – our children are wakening We’re very pleased to launch our new podcast series, Beyond the Obvious, which is co-organised by Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum. The hosts, Seán O’Conláin and Caroline Whyte, will explore a range of topics with guests from a wide variety of backgrounds. There will be…