Further 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…
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…
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