A civic research-action promoted by Active Citizenship Network during 2014 with the aim to explore the relationship between mobility and access to healthcare in Italy. The focus is on road safety, disabled people and good practices.
239 articles were analyzed from January 2013 to August 2014 for a total of 180 reports.
Civic societies and patient organizations together with Members of the EU Parliament
to strengthen the protection of patients’ rights in the European framework
Presentation
Foreword
The idea to encourage a MEPs informal Interest Group focused on patients’ rights is linked to the widespread request of more than 80 civic and patient organizations sent to the EU Parliament to recognize officially the value of citizens’ initiatives, such us the European Charter of Patients’ Rights based on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the European Patients’ Rights Day, which has been organized every year on April 18th since 2007 at local, national and EU level.
A request launched last May 2015 at the European Parliament during the IX Edition of the European Patients’ Rights Day, and already included in the “Report on safer healthcare in Europe: improving patient safety and fighting antimicrobial resistance (2014/2207(INI))", approved unanimously on 16th April 2015 by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee first, and then in plenary by the European Parliament in second half of May 2015.
What can you do?
1. Call your MEPs to join the Interest group on Patients’ Rights and Cross-border Healthcare:
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Chronic pain affects around 20% of the adult population in Europe, yet it remains poorly managed and under-treated, affecting not only the patients, but society as a whole. It is time for EU and national authorities to recognise chronic pain as a priority and to ensure better diagnosis, fund research, adapt health insurance and guarantee that Europe’s 80 million sufferers get the treatment they need.
Introduction
In compliance with art. 13 of Law no. 234/2012 on “general regulation on Italian participation in the development and fulfillment of the EU legislation and policies”, the Italian Government, on January 10th 2014 sent to the Italian Parliament the annual programmatic report for 2014 concerning “the Italian participation to the EU”. To what concern health protection, the Government indicated pain therapy and palliative care as areas of potential focus during the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union: an aspect that medicine progress makes news of current interest and on which our Country wants to share its own experience with other Member States.
In other words, with the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, July-December 2014, for the first time chronic pain is in the European agenda and, as a consequence, the topic was brought to the attention of all European Health Ministries. All this happened during the Informal Meeting of European Health Ministries that each Presidency of the Council of the European Union organizes during its Semester.
This civic survey is a first attempt in which a widespread coalition of patients and citizen organizationsrepresents the point of view of patients in the European policies on pain.
The first deals primarily withchronic pain and the right not to suffer, the second, more generally, with health policies and the protectionof patients.
This civic survey is a first attempt in which a widespread coalition of patients and citizen organizationsrepresents the point of view of patients in the European policies on pain.
The first deals primarily withchronic pain and the right not to suffer, the second, more generally, with health policies and the protectionof patients.
This civic survey is a first attempt in which a widespread coalition of patients and citizen organizationsrepresents the point of view of patients in the European policies on pain.
The first deals primarily withchronic pain and the right not to suffer, the second, more generally, with health policies and the protectionof patients.
Chronic pain affects around 20% of the adult population in Europe, yet it remains poorly managed and under-treated, affecting not only the patients, but society as a whole. It is time for EU and national authorities to recognise chronic pain as a priority and to ensure better diagnosis, fund research, adapt health insurance and guarantee that Europe’s 80 million sufferers get the treatment they need.