- Patient Engagement Websites and Online Tools for Chronic Conditions
- For many patients and their families finding the correct information on their condition is key to helping them manage it effectively. Increasingly we look for health information on line but it’s impor ...
- World COPD Day Campaign 2015
- Wednesday 18th November marked the fourteenth World COPD Day, an annual event to raise awareness of COPD worldwide. For this year’s campaign EFA chose to highlight the meaningful actions that societ ...
- Access to health services in the European Union
- This autumn the European Commission and the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH) launched a public consultation on the preliminary opinion on the “Access to health services in ...
- New webpage on medication errors from EMA
- In accordance with EU pharmacovigilance legislation, patients have the opportunity not only to report any side effects of medicines, but also on any medication errors they experience. If you are a p ...
- MyAirCoach Partner Meeting Update
- The 3rd myAirCoach partner meeting took place at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London on 17th and 18th November. During these two days the project partners, together with members of the Pat ...
- Capacity Building in Spain
- The EFA team visited FENAER in Malaga (Spain) on the 4th of November for the second meeting of EFA Capacity Building project. The meeting was attended by 16 representatives of 9 FENAER member organiza ...
- 2015 Report on Air Quality in Europe – Considerable Impact of poor air quality on Human Health
- A new report published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) presents an overview and analysis of air quality in Europe, with a focus on 2013. 2013 is the latest year for which there are available ...
- United4Health
- On the 5th of November, EFA Senior EU Policy Advisor Roberta Savli took part in the last Policy Advisory Group meeting of the United4Health project. The project is partially funded under the ICT Pol ...
- Developments in Tobacco Control
- On the 6th of November, EFA Senior EU Policy Advisor Roberta Savli participated in a meeting with the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (SG SANTE) and several other non-profit organisatio ...
- Webinar on the Future of Vehicle Testing
- On the 5th of November, EFA took part in a webinar organised by Transport and Environment (T&E). Established in 1990, T&E represents around 50 organisations across Europe, mostly enviro ...
- EPF recommendations on the Council position on medical devices
- In November, EPF (the European Patients Forum) published detailed recommendations on the Council position on medical devices, to which EFA contributed. The trilogue, which started in October, i ...
- Horizon 2020: Launch of Work Programme 2016-2017
- The European Commission will invest almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme, following a new work progra ...
- Mapping the use of European Structural and Investment funds in health
- The report “Mapping of the use of European Structural and Investment funds in health in the 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 programming periods” presents the investments in health-related areas that have been ...
- EMA HCWP/PCWP meeting
- On the 26th of November, Jelena Malinina, EFA EU Policy and Membership Officer took part in the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Human Scientific Committees' Working Party with Patients’ and Consumers’ ...
- The Campaign for Clean Air, Update on NEC Vote
- Over 400,000 people die prematurely each year because of air pollution, and the European Commission estimates that the health-related costs in the EU range from 390 to 940 billion euros per year. ...
- European Need for Precision Medicine in Allergy and Airways Disease
- Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. While significant a ...
- This World COPD Day remember it’s not too late to travel the globe!
- At the present time 10% of the adults in Europe are diagnosed with COPD. 3.5 million people need supplemental oxygen, and the numbers keep growing. Many patients are advised by their physician to trav ...
- EARIP Project Update: Stakeholder Meeting Report and London Meeting
- Following the Stakeholder Workshop held last September at the European Parliament (report available at EFA website), EFA brought together relevant European asthma experts for a crucial meeting which w ...
- Update on Capacity Building in 2015
- This month EFA launched its 2015 Capacity Building project. Capacity Building Ireland The first meeting took place in Dublin on the 16th of October, where EFA’s representatives A ...
- Launch of European Commission 2016 Work Programme
- Every year, the European Commission adopts a plan of action covering the next twelve months. On the 27th of October, the European Commission adopted its 2016 Work Programme. The 2016 Commission Wo ...