Presented in Italy by the Tribunal for Patients' Rights-Cittadinanzattiva the Annual Report on Health seen by citizens. Waiting lists, ticket and access to services more and more difficult.
The real Disabled penalized by the fight to the not entitled few. A year of waiting for the economic benefits, lack of computerization and too many bureaucratic steps do the rest. These among the key findings from I ° Report on disability and civil bureaucracy edited by Cittadinanzattiva.
Active Citizenship Network drafted a Manifesto for the implementation of the Right of European Patients to make an informed choice, because we believe that the implementation of this principle, contained in the Directive on Cross Border Care, shall allow all patients to access services better adapted to their personal requirements, both abroad and in their own country/region.
The European Commission has set out a series of common, non-binding principles for collective redress mechanisms in the Member States so that citizens and companies can enforce the rights granted to them under EU law where these have been infringed. The Recommendation aims to ensure a coherent horizontal approach to collective redress in the European Union without harmonizing Member States' systems.
The European Commission has set out a series of common, non-binding principles for collective redress mechanisms in the Member States so that citizens and companies can enforce the rights granted to them under EU law where these have been infringed. The Recommendation aims to ensure a coherent horizontal approach to collective redress in the European Union without harmonizing Member States' systems.
"The European Commission launched in 2012 an infringement procedure against Italy for failure to comply with Directive 2004/80/EC and is currently considering further steps of the procedure." It is the response of the EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding to a question by an Italian MEP on the issue of compensation for victims of violent crime. In practice, the Italian state is not always fulfills its duty to compensate the victims of violent intentional crime if the offender does not have the means to do so, as stated in the Directive 2004/80/EC.
Cittadinanzattiva is one of the associations of the organizing committee of the Campaign "Three Laws for Justice and Human Rights: Torture, Prisons, Drugs," three laws of civilization directed respectively to introduce the crime of torture in the Criminal Code, to amend the law on the Fini-Giovanardi drugs and restore the rule of law in overcrowded prisons.
The goal is to communicate the existence of the Law 38/2010, which guarantees and protects access to care for the sick, as well as inform them about local services. At the start a commercials on TV with the slogan "No longer alone in pain," an online map with 500 centers for palliative care and pain therapy in Italy, information and contact points available to the public.
During the presentation of the "XII National Day of relief", celebrated throughout Italy last May 26, the Italian Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin has issued an official statement related their commitment to promote a network among member countries to share best practices on palliative care during the Italian Presidency of the EU in 2014.
Some of the most commonly used painkillers can increase long-term users' heart-attack risk by more than a third, an in-depth study into their side-effects has shown. The study, published in The Lancet medical journal last May 30, it was realized by researchers of the University of Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Unit in cooperation with the Institute of Pharmacology, Catholic University of Rome, and funded by Medical research council and by British heart foundation.