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Digitalisation – a great enabler of integrated care
Posted on November 7, 2018
The 9es rencontres nationales MAIA, that took place today in Paris, was a great chance to exchange views on important topic, including integrated care. In particular, François Barrière, representative of the French EFN Member Association...
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European nurses are key in codesigning an EU value-based health and social care ecosystem
Posted on October 18, 2018
The debate on the importance of an outcome-based approach is of high-relevance among health and social care stakeholders to enable the shift towards a patient-centred health and social care. Value-based health and social care is a concept supported...
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Slovakia welcomes the 108th EFN General Assembly
Posted on October 11, 2018
National representatives of 3 million EU nurses are meeting in Slovakia to hold the biannual EFN General Assembly on 11 and 12 October. The EFN GA represents a crucial moment for the 36 EFN Members, that take the opportunity to share...
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Nurses call for a people-centred European Pillar of Social Rights
Posted on October 3, 2018
The rights and principles enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights are crucial to shape and improve living conditions in the European society. Among its 20 Principles, access to healthcare, right to quality and inclusive education, fair...
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Nurses contribution to The Value of Health: Improving Outcomes
Posted on September 24, 2018
In a European society where a growing number of people live with co-morbidities, non-communicable diseases, and in need of complex care interventions, health and social care ecosystems are expected to give greater importance to value-based outcomes, but not ignoring input...
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Europe needs to offer new opportunities to its citizens
Posted on September 14, 2018
During the State of the Union 2018 speech, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, called for a Union that takes better care of its social dimension, stating that “Europe's social dimension should be given the Cinderella treatment...
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Blockchain to support continuity of care and its end-users: nurses.
Posted on September 7, 2018
The OECD Blockchain Policy Forum highlighted important features of this emerging technology. If national governments have emphasised the potential benefits and risks of blockchain for our economies and societies, and what governments should do to realise this...
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Back to Brussels’ lobby work for 3 million EU nurses
Posted on August 23, 2018
Coming back from a nice summer break, it is now time to go back to the EU bubble and to lobby! Taking back our work from where we left it, the EFN priority of the upcoming months will be ensuring that...
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Wishing you all a good summer break!
Posted on July 20, 2018
The first half of the year has been very exciting, but also quite intense and challenging for the nurses and the nursing profession, both at national and EU levels, with a whole profession fighting to change health and social ecosystem,...
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European funds need to support health and nurses in the EU
Posted on July 12, 2018
The EU Parliament Employment Committee has exchanged views on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) that, within the framework of the next long-term EU budget (2021-2027), aims to further strengthen the Union’s social dimension, serving as the...
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