The major project to set up a European Resource Centre for patient empowerment has now been running for nearly six months. Our funders Robert Bosch Stiftung required us to get charity registration, which we sought in Ireland, having registered EHFF as a limited company there last September, in anticipation of Brexit, as we announced at…
EHFF was a collaborating partner for the first Chronic disease Joint action between 2014 and 2017 and our news item of 19th March 2017 reports the final conference in Brussels. Even at that time a follow on Joint Action was mooted. It was finally kicked off in September of that year but has had a…
The POLLAR project is a major initiative from EIT Health (the European Institute of Innovation and Technology health stream) on the Impact of Pollution on Asthma and Rhinitis (for more details, see the EIT website: https://www.eithealth.eu/pollar ) What makes this especially interesting to EHFF is that a member of the consortium running this project is…
This year the AGM took place at a hotel near Heathrow airport. Participants flew or travelled in on Sunday, to meet for dinner and spent Monday April 23rd engaging in the formal business of the AGM followed by, after morning coffee, three hours of strategic discussion around the topics of ongoing sustainability of the EHFF organisation…
Jim Phillips, Associated Director for EHFF and Director for CEmPaC attended the Connected Health seminar: How to engage and empower patients? At the Science Park Tehnopol, Tallinn, Estonia in March. The purpose of the event was to showcase good practices, drawing to some extent from local sources in Estonia, but also with European speakers to help…
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By Agnieszka Daval On 27-28 February the European Commission held for the 6th time the Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Health Ageing (EIP on AHA), with some 350 participants, including EHFF. Next to a stock-taking exercise, the objective was to connect dots between the activities of EIP, Digital Single Market and…
Jim Phillips, associate director and for EHFF and executive director for CEmPaC recently attended a conference on prevention in Bucharest, Romania. The International Conference ” Prevention 360 +5″ is at its second edition and is organized under the auspices of the College of Pharmacists in Romania and of the College of Physicians in Romania, having as…
London futurists event 17 February 2018 By Prof Daniel Steenstra – EHFF Yesterday I attended London Futurists’ ‘A Future Glimpse into Human Healthcare’ event as David Somekh’s stunt double. For nearly 2 hours Dr Stephen Minger presented a beguiling view of latest developments in medical science. He is a charismatic American scientist with an illustrious…
By Bernard Merkel (EHFF community member) Since the start of the year the NHS in the UK has been in a state of crisis. How do I know this? Well, I am constantly told so by the media, senior health professionals, such as the heads of 67 hospital emergency departments, and assorted politicians. There are…