HOPE Activities

• Precise medicine for better patient outcomes – A HOPE roundtable
• ICT4Life Project Final Conference: Meeting the Challenges of Digital Health Innovation for Integrated Care in the European Union
• Editorial “Brexit and shortages” published by European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
• Cross-Border Healthcare Directive – European Parliament hearing
• EULAR World Arthritis Day Annual Conference

News from Members

United-Kingdom – National Health Service

• Latest updates on UK-EU withdrawal negotiations

Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union (July-December 2019)

• The recent policy proposals and research of international organizations from the perspective of well-being economy – Report

EU Institutions and Policies

European programmes and projects

• Active and Assistive Living (AAL) Challenge Prize awards three innovative solutions for active and healthy ageing
• Big Data Symposium

Reports and Publications

Reports

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Organization and financing of public health services in Europe (2018)
• The role of public health organizations in addressing public health problems in Europe: The case of obesity, alcohol and antimicrobial resistance (2018)
• Embedding a cultural contexts of health approach across the WHO European Region (2018)
• What is the evidence on the policy specifications, development processes and effectiveness of existing front-of-pack food labelling policies in the WHO European Region? (2018)

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• Children & Young People’s Mental Health in the Digital Age. Shaping the Future (2018)

WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

• Austria HiT (2018)
• Bulgaria HiT (2018)
• Estonia HiT (2018)
• Spain HiT (2018)
• Will population ageing spell the end of the welfare state? A review of evidence and policy options (2018)
• Ensuring access to medicines: How to stimulate innovation to meet patients’ needs?
• Ensuring access to medicines: How to redesign pricing, reimbursement and procurement?
• Eurohealth. Quarterly on the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Observatory 20th Anniversary Special Issue

Articles

• Strengthening primary care: The Veneto Region’s model of the Integrated Medical Group
• Leveraging EUnetHTA’s conceptual framework to compare HTA decision drivers in France, Italy, and Germany from a manufacturer’s point of view
• Volume-outcome relationship and minimum volume regulations in the German hospital sector – evidence from nationwide administrative hospital data for the years 2005–2007

Other News – Europe

• European Civic Prize on Chronic Pain Collecting Good Practices Second edition 2018-2019
• Decisive Referendum on Macedonia name failed
• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): one of the main themes of the G20 Health Ministers meeting and the World Health Summit
• Working Time Directive
• Women in Science
• European Patient Forum 2019 European Elections Campaign Launch
• Health Technology Assessment and Access to Innovative Oncology Drugs in Europe
• Innovation in oncology – Can science make cancer a manageable disease?
• Rare Cancers Europe
• Cancer-Associated Thrombosis – Conference
• European Cancer Leagues – Let’s talk access!
• Healthier Solutions for Access to Medicines

Upcoming Events