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‘Your allergy care – what to expect’, new UK website

06 April 2017
United Kingdom
Food Allergy
- Healthcare
Knowing what to expect from your GP or other healthcare professional following an allergic reaction, or suspicion of an allergy, will help to identify...

Scientific Panel for Health meets Commissioners for Health and Research

02 March 2017
EU
- Healthcare
Our Director Susanna Palkonen is the patient representative of the EU Research Programme H2020 Panel for Health , charged to prepare a vision and...

New website! Steps to take to fly with medical oxygen

02 March 2017
Europe
COPD, Other Diseases
- Inequalities
Are you or someone you know going on a trip and need to have medical oxygen therapy on-board a plane? We are delighted to launch a new EFA website to guide...

EFA selected as a European Commission HTA stakeholder and new EFA Task Force

02 March 2017
EU
- Healthcare, - Digital Health
We are delighted about the European Commission confirmation that EFA is a suitable stakeholder to become member of the Health Technology Assessment pool...

Our response to the Commission consultation on excise duties applied to manufactured tobacco

02 March 2017
EU
- Tobacco & Smoking
EFA has replied, in partnership with ENSP, to the European Commission public consultation on excise duties applied to manufactured tobacco. From our patients’...

How to communicate health risks of air pollution? Our views at WHO meeting

02 March 2017
Europe
- Air Quality
In February we were invited to a close round table organised by the World Health Organisation European division in Bonn on the “Software AirQ+ for the...

Universal Health Coverage for all! An EPF campaign

02 March 2017
EU
- Inequalities, - Healthcare
The European Patients Forum has launched a public campaign on access to healthcare. The campaign was launched in a public event at the European Parliament...

Our evaluation to the Commission Health Programme

01 March 2017
In February, we responded to the European Commission public consultation on the mid-term evaluation of the third public health programme 2014-2020. The...

COPD MOVE, we are looking for COPD patient ambassadors

01 March 2017
Europe
COPD
- Healthcare
During 2017 we will promote physical exercise to improve the quality of life of patients living with COPD. The first videos have already been realised...

myAirCoach will be featured at CeBIT

01 March 2017
EU
Asthma
- Digital Health
myAirCoach consortium will meet in Brussels for the second year technical review with the European Commission that will be held on the 7th of March. The...

Food allergy tips from UK youth ambassadors

01 March 2017
United Kingdom
Food Allergy
Anaphylaxis Campaign youth ambassadors scheme was launched in 2016. They are a team of young people that produce social media and website communications...

EFA alignment meeting Estonia

01 March 2017
Estonia
Our Susanna Palkonen went to Estonia in February to meet the Estonian allergy and respiratory groups to introduce the value of joining our network and...

ABBA launches a national “Breathe Freely” campaign in Bulgaria

01 March 2017
Bulgaria
EFA Bulgarian Member ABBA has launched an annual national campaign to inform about respiratory diseases and advance care options for patients. The campaign...

Moisturisers for eczema: they do work!

01 March 2017
Netherlands
Other Diseases
The dry and itchy skin in people with eczema makes it common sense to use a moisturiser. However, it wasn’t known if moisturisers really are beneficial...

FENAER participates at the Spanish Respiratory Society Congress

01 March 2017
Spain
Asthma
EFA Spanish Member FENAER brought the perspective of respiratory patients to the SEPAR Pacientes meeting. Mª Emilia Carretero, FENAER Board Member highlighted...

Respira turns 10!

01 March 2017
Portugal
COPD, Other Diseases
EFA Member the Portuguese COPD patients association RESPIRA has celebrated its 10th anniversary in Lisbon on the 23rd February. During the meeting they...

Changing the perception of COPD: COPD Move by Patients! - EFA project

07 February 2017
EN BG CZ DA DE GR ES FI FR HR IS IT LT LV NL NO PL PT SL SV EN Physical activity is recognised to bring relevant benefit to COPD patients....

1 in 3 MEPs signed the written declaration on chronic respiratory diseases

07 February 2017
The Written Declaration 115/2016 on chronic respiratory diseases, an initiative of a group of Members of the European Parliament to gather support to prevention...

The first EP event of the year put the focus on health: Act. Believe. Care.

07 February 2017
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy
- Healthcare, - Medicines
Chronic respiratory diseases need public policy solutions at European level to respond to increasing disease prevalence, unmet treatment needs, high cost...

Great satisfaction among EFA Capacity Building participants

07 February 2017
Europe
EFA’s 2016 Capacity Building project ended in January 2017 with a last session held in Kent, United Kingdom, together with our member Allergy UK. In...