- EFA 2023 Project: COPD Standards of Care – Raising the Bar
- In 2023, EFA will work alongside with EFA Members and European Lung Health Group (ELHG) to evaluate impact on EFA’s 2013 COPD minimum standards of care and to foster continued progress with new benchm ...
- PRESS RELEASE: Respiratory patients and doctors from 179 associations demand stricter air pollution levels in the EU Air Quality Directives
- Brussels, 28 March 2023 – Today the European Lung Health Group launched its policy brief ‘Improving lung health in the EU with renewed Air Quality Directives’. The document outlines the call of the ...
- PRESS RELEASE: Respiratory patients launch European prize to recognise achievements in digital health for asthma and COPD
- Brussels, 1/02/2023 - The European Federation of Allergies and Airways Diseases (EFA) has launched a Prize to welcome applications from innovators whose digital products improve the lives and health o ...
- EFA-Live: EU launches Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan
- On February 4th, the European Commission presented “Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan”, one of the cornerstones of its health policy for the new legislative period 2019-2024. Cancer, which directly affects ...
- EFA-Live: State of health in the EU & digitalization of health promotion
- On January 22nd, EFA attended a policy discussion on “the state of health in the EU and the digitalisation of health”, organized by the Brussels based think tank Bruegel. As the European Commission ...
- EFA-Live: EFA’s new Roadmap – #ShowLeadership in 2020
- Show you care about patients, show leadership! This is how the allergy, asthma and COPD patient community kick-starts the new decade. With a new roadmap and full of energy, EFA continues advocating to ...
- Joint letter calling concrete clean air steps in European Commission’s 2020 Work Programme
- EFA, together with seven other civil society organisations active in the field of health and environment, has sent a letter to Exececutive Vice-Presidents Frans Timmermans and Valdis Dombrovskis, and ...
- A Roadmap to patient safety, access to healthcare and eradicating inequalities
- In connection with the #ShowLeadership campaign and our recently published ACCESS report, EFA organised an event in the Strasbourg European Parliament, hosted by Member of the European Parliament (MEP ...
- EFA continues to #ShowLeadership for people living with allergies, asthma and COPD
- In 2019, EFA launched the #ShowLeadership campaign to encourage relevant stakeholders – including patients and caregivers, healthcare professionals and policymakers – to take action and address the ch ...
- EU takes the step towards clean air and a greener Europe!
- The Commission releases the Ambient Air Quality Directives Fitness Check report… At the end of November, the European Commission unveiled the long-awaited report of the fitness check of the EU Air Q ...
- State of Health in the EU Cycle: EFA at CoR Interregional Group on Health & Well-being
- In early December, EFA attended the Committee of the Regions (CoR) “Interregional Group on Health & Well-being”. The meeting focused on a presentation of the recently released European Commission ...
- EFA at EMA Patients and Healthcare Professionals Meeting
- On 20 November, EFA attended the Annual European Medicines Agency meeting with all eligible organisations who are members of the EMA Patient and Consumer- and Healthcare professionals working parties ...
- European Health Parliament – 5th edition started
- For the fifth time, the European Health Parliament (EHP) has started its work in late November. The EHP connects and empowers the next generation of European health leaders to rethink EU health polici ...
- EFA contributes to EPIS Summit
- Digital solutions have the potential to improve the life of millions of European patients and transform the way we deliver care at country level. However, the uptake of digital solutions is still low ...
- Follow up to European Parliament resolution on clean air:
- The European Commission produced a follow-up document to the EP non-legislative resolution on ‘’A Europe that Protects: Clean Air for All’’, adopted in March. Among others, the resolution made special ...
- EFA at EPF 2019 Congress
- For the very first time, the European Patient Forum (EPF) organised a Congress on meaningful patient involvement. Between Tuesday 12th and Thursday 14th, 300 delegates, including patient advocates, he ...
- Scientific Panel for health and Finnish EU Presidency set the scene for prevention research and its implementation in Europe
- The Finnish EU Presidency and the Horizon 2020 scientific panel for health organised a workshop ‘Better Health and Wellbeing’ to look at success in prevention, implementing prevention research outcome ...
- EFA Capacity Building 2019: Evidence Based advocacy
- Between November 26th and 27th, EFA members were invited to Strasbourg to engage in a 2-day programme, consisting of presentations from external speakers and a practical workshop. During the presentat ...
- Moving forward to better management and personalised therapy in asthma and COPD
- However, recent studies have shown that on a molecular level, certain patterns are shared by patients, suggesting that they may also share pathways of response to treatment and disease progression. ...