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Civil society engagement is needed to close the implementation gap!
Posted on January 19, 2018
The challenges that civil society organisations are facing in the EU have been discussed at the presentation of the report on 'Challenges facing civil society organisations working on human rights in the EU', by...
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New EU Presidency of the Council of the EU
Posted on January 3, 2018
The 1st January 2018, marked the beginning of a new year, but also of a new EU presidency of the Council of the EU, running until 30 June 2018. After 10 years of its accession to the EU, Bulgaria took...
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Season’s Greetings to all and Good Wishes for 2018
Posted on December 21, 2017
2017 was an intense lobby year for the nursing community within the EU, and politically a very important year for the nursing profession. Austerity measures in all the EU Member States, have been leading to severe cuts in nursing ratios...
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Medtech and Metronics heavily criticised for imposing their value in value-based healthcare design
Posted on December 7, 2017
The future of health systems and how Value-Based Healthcare can tackle the challenges they face, by shifting to integrated models that improve outcomes for patients and foster sustainability, was discuss in the conference on “Shifting to Value - Saving Europe's Healthcare Systems”. European...
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Patient Solidarity Day – “Patient Empowerment in people-centred care”
Posted on December 1, 2017
The EFN is committed to support and advocate for strategies and policies placing “patient empowerment” at the centre of people-centred care, seeing patients as persons who are more than their illness. Patient empowerment enables patients and professionals...
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Nursing Now! Campaign
Posted on November 20, 2017
Nursing Now! is a campaign focused on raising the status and profile of nursing globally and maximise the contribution that nursing makes to Universal Health Coverage, women’s empowerment and economic development. Under the leadership of Lord Crisp,...
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The European Institutions proclaim the European Pillar of Social Rights
Posted on November 17, 2017
On 17 November, heads of state and government endorsed the proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, presented by the European Commission at the Social Summit in Gothenburg. The Pillar aims...
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EU Nurses Combatting AMR
Posted on November 14, 2017
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a professional and political challenge that requires the engagement of the frontline nurses. Although Action Plans are being developed setting out roadmaps to tackle the burden of AMR, the nursing workforce needs to be part of...
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Nurses bring eHealth closer to citizens
Posted on October 23, 2017
Digitalisation is a crucial aspect of modern societies and healthcare systems. Technology has the important role to contribute to enhancing patient safety and patient empowerment as well as facilitating healthcare professionals’ work, with electronic tools supporting them in their daily...
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EFN Members elect new governance positions and focus on Proportionality and AMR!
Posted on October 17, 2017
The EFN Members elected by majority vote a new EFN President Elizabeth Adams from the Irish Nursing and Midwifery Organisation. Milka Vasileva from the Bulgarian Association of Health Professionals in Nursing continues...
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