The virtual meeting of the European Parliament’s Interest Group on Innovation in Health and Social Care entitled ‘Integration of health and social care to tackle disease outbreaks’ took place on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 via videoconference.
This week, our Interim Executive Director, Brandon Mitchener, was interviewed by the DISH European Reference Group on our strategy to improve the digital skills of the health workforce.
Health First Europe is delighted to welcome Victor Negrescu (S&D, Romania) as MEP supporter and looks forward to future collaboration.
Health First Europe is delighted to welcome a new MEP Supporter: Pilar del Castillo Vera
Health First Europe is delighted to welcome a new MEP Supporter: István Ujhelyi
Health First Europe is delighted to welcome a new MEP Supporter: Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé
Health First Europe is delighted to welcome a new MEP Supporter: Susana Solis Pérez
In the frame of the campaign for the Declaration for Patient Safety, Health First Europe collaborated with the Spanish region of Navarre to publish an article on the best practices for safety and quality of care at the regional level.
We call on the European Commission to adopt a broad and coherent pan-European Infection Management Strategy addressing the health, social, economic and environment determinants, which influences infection diseases and considers the intrinsic links between antimicrobial resistance, prevention of HAIs and sepsis.
In the frame of the campaign for the Declaration for Patient Safety, Health First Europe collaborated with the Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety of the Tuscan Region to publish an article about best practices on safety and quality of care at regional level.
On the World Patient Safety Day, Health First Europe and the Spanish Patients’ Forum join hands to call the Spanish minister to act to foster patient safety.
Health First Europe members’ have complied a series of wishes for the future of European health care to be presented to the members of the EU Parliament.
HFE’s Member, EHMA (European Health Management Association) opened the registrations for EHMA 2019 Winter School on the theme of “Managing Digital Innovation in Healthcare”, taking place on 5th – 7th February 2019 in Kloster Eberbach, Germany.
HFE is delighted to welcome the Council of Occupational Therapists for the European Countries (COTEC) as new member.
According to WHO, around 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss and 34 million of these are children. Unaddressed hearing loss poses an annual global cost of US$ 750 billion. Interventions to identify and address hearing loss are cost-effective and can bring great benefit to patients and the whole society.
Some 900 million people could suffer from disabling hearing loss by 2050, according to new estimates released by the World Health Organization on the occasion of World Hearing Day on 3 March.
