Health Consumer Powerhouse

How to Cure the EU Patient Information Gap - Inequalities and Good Examples and the Way Forward

Last Updated (January 19, 2010) Written by Administrator December 11, 2009

Health Consumer Powerhouse organised this Seminar on the 12th of January in the European Parliament.

There are currently important differences across Europe in terms of access to the healthcare information. However, healthcare systems are starting to see high-quality patient information as an opportunity to improve care and health outcomes. Different systems are being established around Europe, which allow patients to access a range of good information sources in their local language. All these approaches have one common objective: to empower patients in order to take a more active and responsible role in decisions affecting their own health.

In co-operation with MEPs Christofer Fjellner, Antonyia Parvanova, Antonio Correia De Campos, and Milan Cabrnoch, we idenitfied current gaps, discussing some new and promising approaches as well as ways forward.

Program:

Welcome, Christofer Fjellner, MEP

"The growing empowerment of European patients and care consumers"

Johan Hjertqvist    , Health Consumer Powerhouse

(based on the following Paper: Patient and consumer information to reduce inequalities in healthcare in the EU), power-point presentation here 

"What patients want to know"

Alexandra Wyke, Patient View, UK, power-point presentation here

 "European models for patient information on medicines"

Jana Petrenko, Coalition for Health, Czech Republic, power-point presentation here

and Richard Bergström, FASS, Sweden, power-point presentation here