- Asthma Society of Ireland launches social media campaigns on asthma and winter
- EFA Member the Asthma Society Ireland has had a quite busy start into 2019. In January, they were running two campaigns simultaneously, Operation Asthma and Winter Wellness. Operation Asthma aims to ...
- Smart inhalers as watershed for millions with asthma in UK
- A new plan of the UK National Health Service brings good news for millions living with asthma. “It is hugely possible that the NHS is committing to reduce hospital admissions for people with asthma an ...
- Sweden moves to ban on smoking in public spaces
- The Swedish government is expected to put a formal proposal to the parliament in February, providing for a general smoking ban in public spaces such as outdoor restaurants, train platforms and playgro ...
- EFA meets Romanian patients who aim to build a national organisation
- On 19 th of November 2018, EFA organised a meeting with a group of patients in Brasov, Romania, willing to establish a patient organisation on respiratory diseases and allergy. This was supported by I ...
- In memoriam, Günther Hirsch, COPD advocate
- Mr. Günther Hirsch passed away in peace in November 2018. As a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient he was engaged in the advocacy work of the Austrian Lungen Union, an EFA Member, wer ...
- The burden of allergy has decreased in Finland
- EFA member, the Finnish Lung Health Association (Filha) organized the National Asthma and Allergy Conference in Helsinki on November 22 nd and 23 rd . In the final seminar of the Finnish Allergy Progr ...
- Lecture Day at World COPD Day in Prague
- On 23 rd November a lecture Day on World COPD Day has been organized in Prague offering 14 interesting lectures to participants. The program was primarily meant for doctors and nurses, but it was also ...
- FENAER launches a shock-plan on tobacco, COPD and spirometry in Spain
- In November, EFA Spanish Member FENAER launched an ambitious plan to improve diagnosis and reduce COPD deaths in Spain. The organisation has been presenting the plan to several local health ministries ...
- EFA becomes official NGO to WHO Europe
- On September 20 the WHO Regional Committee for Europe adopted a decision in plenary to accredit 19 not for profit organisations, including EFA, into ‘regional non-state actors’. In other words, EFA is ...
- Horizon Europe must deliver on citizens’ priorities: the case of allergy and asthma
- The European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma held a policy meeting on October 9 to overcome the barriers to research in NCDs in Europe. Key opinion leaders in clinical research from th ...
- European Atopic Eczema Day
- Last September 14th the atopic eczema patient community belonging to EFA’s Members marked the first ever European Atopic Eczema Awareness Day to inform and bring attention to this allergic disease ...
- The involvement of patients in HTA becomes secondary for the European Parliament
- On October 3, the European Parliament plenary adopted in the first reading the file on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on health technology assessment (HTA) ...
- Personalised Medicine alliance discusses HTA at Parliament
- On September 26, the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) organised a Roundtable in the European Parliament to discuss how to coordinate Health Technology Assessment between Member ...
- European Commission report on cross-border healthcare Directive shows it helps clarify patients' rights
- On 21 September, the European Commission published an implementation report on the directive on cross-border healthcare (2011/24/EU). The concept of the cross-border healthcare directive has the poten ...
- WHO - Life expectancy is on the rise in Europe but caveats for allergy and respiratory health remain
- The newest European Health report by the World Health Organisation published on 12 September, shows that life we live longer in Europe. The European Health report is published every three years and is ...
- Brexit: the European Parliament’s role in prioritising patients, public health and health security across Europe
- At a sensitive time when hardly any progress is made between the UK Government and the EU on Brexit, 20 EU health organisations who wish to draw attention to the implications of Brexit for healthcare ...
- Hearing on vaccination programmes and health systems in Europe
- In the light of the recent vaccine hesitancy trend, the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing In Health is working on “vaccination programmes and health systems in Europe”. V ...
- The Human Biomonitoring in Europe, or how to assess our exposure to chemicals
- On 28 September the Austrian EU Presidency organised in Vienna a major European conference on the health effects of environmental chemicals. The conference entitled "Human Biomonitoring in Europe - ...
- Our health is not sufficiently protected from air pollution, says the EU Court of auditors
- Every year, more than 400,000 premature deaths in the EU are caused by air pollution, resulting in significant human and economic costs. A new report from the European Court of Auditors published in ...
- Patient priorities at the International Congress of Aerobiology
- From September 3-7, EFA Director of Operations and Projects travelled to Parma to speak at the International Congress of Aerobiology about the problems that respiratory allergy poses to Europeans. He ...