On 23 February, POLITICO’s health care policy team held an event, under the Chatham House rules, on the implications of Brexit on the health sector and asked for a general feedback about their policy updates. The event was attended by Robert Delis (BMA). The main outcome of the discussion were the following concerns: access to medicines and […]

The European Commission jointly with the Maltese Presidency recently presented a report to help public authorities implement healthy food standards in schools. The report was presented at a meeting on strategies to address childhood obesity and constitutes a tool for establishing clear specifications on foods and good services to be procured with the objective of […]

We are pleased to announce that UEMO has been selected by DG SANTE to become Member of the HTA Network Stakeholder Pool. Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a way of assessing the ways science & technology are used in healthcare and disease prevention. It covers medical, social, economic, and ethical issues.It provides policy-makers with objective […]

31 Jan 2017 HIV remains a significant public health problem in the 31 countries of the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA), with around 30 000 newly diagnosed HIV infections reported each year over the last decade. In a two-day conference organised in collaboration between the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European […]

EMCDDA Director Alexis Goosdeel states: “People who inject drugs have the highest proportion of late diagnosis of HIV, compared to other transmission groups. Providing voluntary testing for infectious diseases, risk behaviour counselling and assistance to manage illness at drug treatment facilities is an important additional avenue to reach this group and is among the new […]

Last 04 February was world cancer Day. Certainly a good occasion to draw attention to the current situation. It is no news that cancer is wreaking havoc in people’s lives. Whether it is physically, emotionally or financially, the disease has had a tremendous negative impact on individuals, families, communities and health systems. Maybe less known […]

On 19 January, UEMO Vice-President, Dr. Daniel Widmer together with UEMO Senior Policy Advisor, Ms. Marie-Christine Bonnamour, participated in the launch event of the ICT4life project at the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation. ICT4Life is three-year project co-financed under Horizon 2020. It kicked-off in Madrid on 19 January 2016 with the ambition to provide new […]

BY: Silvia Stringhini*, Cristian Carmeli*, Markus Jokela*, Mauricio Avendaño*, Peter Muennig, Florence Guida, Fulvio Ricceri, Angelo d’Errico, Henrique Barros, Murielle Bochud, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Giuseppe Costa, Cyrille Delpierre, Silvia Fraga, Marcel Goldberg, Graham G Giles, Vittorio Krogh, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Richard Layte, Aurélie M Lasserre, Michael G Marmot, Martin Preisig, Martin J Shipley, Peter Vollenweider, […]

On 17 January, health ministers supported the new international patient outcomes league table at a meeting in Paris. The patient reported indicator survey (PARIS), in development by the OECD, aims to gather a new generation of health statistics on patients’ own experience of medical care and health care outcomes. According to OECD’s secretary-general José Ángel […]