Following discussions with colleagues in the Quality Improvement team at the Health Services Executive (HSE) in Ireland over the previous few months, EHFF on behalf of their major project CEMPaC (www.cempac.org) signed a service agreement in April 2019 with HSE for input during 2019 to support the HSE’s patient engagement strategy. The following month we…
DetailsEHFF Directors and the majority of the EHFF Advisory Board members met at the London offices of one of our Partner organisations, the Good Governance Institute (GGI) on March 30th. This was the first AGM since we were granted Charity status in Ireland and the meeting co-hosted both the former’s AGM but also that of…
DetailsOn 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…
DetailsAs 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsPodcast 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…
DetailsBlog by David Goldberg At the end of last year, Dr Atul Gawande wrote an article in the Medical Journal ‘Annals of Medicine’ which caused sufficiently interest to be reprinted in the New Yorker magazine. The link to the whole article is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers Essentially this is a thought piece about the benefits and is…
DetailsHere at EHFF we have always been very invested in supporting good mental health and mental health care. We were rather disappointed at the start of the PROSTEP project that the Commission wouldn’t agree to the Consortium including mental health as one of the key chronic disease areas to be studied in the context of…
DetailsThe EHFF has been invited to support Chrodis Plus WP7. Work package 7 of the Chrodis Plus Joint Action is entitled ‘fostering quality of care for people with chronic disease’. The Work package leaders have asked EHFF, as a collaborating partner in the action, to assist them in part of the work package (led by…
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