Further to our announcement last July that EHFF was part of the winning consortium for this DG-SANCO tender on the promotion of self-care in minor and self-limiting conditions, which involves constructing guidelines related to promoting self-care in common conditions but also setting up a multi-stakeholder platform of experts to advise in this area on an…
David Grim attended on behalf of EHFF and his report includes the links below to the work packages from which EHFF is a collaborating partner. David Grim report Chrodis JA, Brussels Feb.19th Progress on: WP 4 WP 5 WP 6 WP 7
Minutes of the Coordinators’ group conference call Objectives of the call: – To officially constitute the group of coordinators of “Patient/User Empowerment Synergies” accord EIP-AHA Action Groups (AGs) – To agree on a collaboration method, including logistics – To identify initial specific actions/activities Prior to this conference call there have been two meetings on synergies…
Conference on improving planning methodologies, Rome 4/5 December 2014 Held as part of the Italian Presidency programme, this conference allowed a review of progress in the Joint Action on health workforce planning since it was launched in the Spring of 2013. EHFF has played a role as a collaborating partner in the JA but also…
About 300 representatives of the action areas and reference sites met in Brussels for the day on Dec. 1st 2014. The agenda can be downloaded here. In essence the meeting ‘taking stock and focusing on delivery’ involved presentations of the progress made by the six Action Groups during 2014 and discussion of the ‘scaling-up strategy’.…
The video recording of the webinar ‘ Over the edge..’ held at the 28th of November 2014 is now available:
At the Centro de Eventos of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil, the Network towards Unity for Health (The Network TUFH) had its 31st conference, this year supported by the Brazilian Government (who are investing a large amount in re-organising the training of health professionals across Brazil). Held on Nov. 19-23, the theme was ‘strengthening health professionals’…
Following the Athens patient empowerment seminar, there were three main recommendations for action. 1) to promote patient empowerment through the ‘synergies’ group, which met for the first time on May 12th. 2) to make an approach to the reference sites network (now the Reference Sites Collaborative Network, chaired by John Farrell), to ask if they…
David Grim Consultant at Radboudumc, Top Contributor EVY Network co-founder Matthijs Zwier, EHFF Director David Somekh and me attended the Health 2.0 conference 2014 in London. The event took place at the Mermaid Conference centre and was attended by several hundred people. David Grim writes: here is where we met a lot of co-innovators, designers,…
Recently the EHFF has contributed to the EXPH report which was released on October 14th. The ‘EXpert Panel on effective ways of investing in Health’ (EXPH) reports on future EU agenda on quality of health care. EHFF contributed to this advisory report as invited expert, alongside European Patient Forum (EPF). The report (click here) was published…