a) At the EUHPP annual meeting on October 17, a working group on social and health inequalities presented their report ‘Nobody left behind’ (the full report is here) Prepared by a consortium of 10 NGOs, supported by MSD, the paper provides six major recommendations for improving healthcare access for marginalised people. b) At the same…
DetailsWe’re preparing our next Newsletter, which will be circulated widely and will have a new format, consistent with the upgraded website. However, in the meantime, here are some brief reports on what we’re up to…. Chrodis plus Joint Action (WP7): EHFF, as a collaborating partner provided a monitoring group (together with EPF) for the six…
DetailsEHFF was invited to participate in a panel discussion on Thursday 3rd October at the Congress Centre of the charming town of Angers Loire. The conference that day concentrated on professionals discussing the impact on senior citizens’ lives of the developments of AI, big data, robotics and the ethics of such innovations. David Somekh for…
DetailsPlease surf the site and give us feedback. Plenty of opportunity to send comments. The revamped site went live on Friday October 4. We’re very pleased, although there is still work to do on the site including grabbing new pictures for some of our Community members and organising our Archive section. Nevertheless, a great big…
DetailsFurther to our last report on the jointly produced podcasts, we have now recorded and published the fifth and final one in the present series, which focuses on health and the environment. We were pleased to have input from Prof Mike Bewick, Matthijs Zwier and Zuzanna Cichon (yes, Agnieszka Daval-Cichon‘s eldest daughter, currently completing a…
DetailsIt’s the holidays! Although this is a time for recreation and an escape from work related travel, it’s also an opportunity for consolidation. Here are five activities occupying us at EHFF during August: a) in June the partners of the EMPATTICS Horizon 2020 project, including EHFF and FAD met online with the Project Officer and…
DetailsWe are pleased to announce that four new members have joined the EHFF Community during this part of the summer. We welcome Iseult Conlan, who has been working as a consultant in the far East but has now returned to Ireland and has joined the Board of EHFF as a Director. She is on the…
DetailsMay and June have been busy months for us at EHFF and rather than produce a series of news items, here is a summary covering five European events we contributed to during the period. ‘Chrodis Plus’ JA General Assembly and conference Budapest May 13/14. As per the previous news item dated March 25th, regarding our…
DetailsFurther to our news item 25th March to mark the first joint podcast, there have now been three more in this series, produced jointly by Sean Conlan from EHFF and Caroline Whyte from FEASTA. We anticipate that one of the final two in the series will be exclusively about ‘drivers of health’. The three that…
DetailsFollowing 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…
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