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The future of healthcare in Europe - Price £100
In Europe: the future of healthcare
HSCNews issue 36 April 2007 Part 1.pdf
Europe
16 pages

Overview:
A summary of discussions about a forthcoming European Union 'Health Strategy'
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Contents:
THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IN EUROPE: pages 8-17
--Introduction: page 7
--Future healthcare in Europe: a European Voice conference: page 8
--A fast-growing health advocacy movement: pages 8 and 10
--A consensual viewpoint by European NGOs on the need for equity in healthcare: page 9
--The European Commission takes a stand: page 10
--The Commission's record to date: pages 10, 11 and 13
--16 health campaigners with ideas on patient mobility: page 11
--What should the European Commission do about health services? The patient and public perspective: page 12
--On health services: patient mobility: page 13
--Instruments and methods: pages 13-14
--Health advocates and the Commission: pages 14-15
--Challenges ahead: page 15
--The future of health: a study by Health First Europe: page 16

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Overview:
A summary of some of the most important attempts around the world to incorporate the views of patients and the public into healthcare practice and legislation. Plus Interviews with eight individuals from around the world who are, in some measure, engaged with patient-involvement initiatives.
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Contents:
GIVING THE GRASSROOTS THEIR SAY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE VARIOUS PROCESSES WORLDWIDE FOR CONSULTING PATIENTS AND THE PUBLIC: pages 6-26
--Moving towards patient-centred care: pages 6-7
--Consensus-building in the UK: pages 7-10
--Going Dutch: pages 11-12
--About the Nederlandse Patiënten Consumenten Federatie (NPCF): page 12
--The European experience: pages 13-17
--The American experience: pages 18-20
--Health Savings Accounts (HSAs): page 19
--Brazil blazes a new trail: pages 20-23
--The pyramid processs of participatory budgets in Porto Alegre: page 23
--Conclusions: pages 23-26
--Can technology provide a solution? page 25
INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE A VIEWPOINT ON PATIENT-PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE: pages 27-55
--Alliance for Health Reform and US patient-centred health reform [USA]: pages 27-31
--John Baron, MP and the UK Conservative Party's Health Watch [UK]: pages 32-34
--DG Health and Consumer Protection and the Pharmaceutical Forum [Europe]: pages 35-38
--European Patients' Forum and patient participation at European level [Europe]: pages 39-41
--Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS and the Porto Alegre Health Council [Brazil]: pages 42-43
--Mental Health Europe and the European Commission's Peer Review Group [Europe]: pages 44-48
--National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [UK]: pages 49-50
--Nederlandse Patiënten Consumenten Federatie and healthcare reforms [Netherlands]: pages 51-55
LETTER: Prioritising research: patients, carers and clinicians working together: page 56
ABSTRACT: Influencing the research agenda: establishing and evaluating a partnership of patients, carers and clinicians to identify research priorities--a protocol: page 57

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Overview:
405 health NGOs from around the world assess their countries' national healthcare systems for user friendliness according to six key indicators.
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Contents:
HOW USER-FRIENDLY IS YOUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM? A GLOBAL SURVEY OF 406 HEALTH NGOS: pages 5-28
--Executive summary: page 5
--Six indicators of system user friendliness: pages 5-8
--The viewpoints of Africans on their healthcare systems: page 9
--The viewpoints of Australasians on their healthcare systems: pages 10-13
--The viewpoints of Europeans on their healthcare systems: pages 14-20
--The viewpoints of North and Central Americans on their healthcare systems: pages 21-28
EVENTS: pages 29-32
--NICE 2005: health and clinical excellence: page 30
--Future Europeans: the right start in life: page 31
--Patients for patient safety: page 32
MEMBERS' NEWS: PAGES 33-38
--Fundación Hipercolesterolemia Familiar joins a new umbrella group [Spain]: page 34
--A campaign for an effective organ donation system [New Zealand]: page 35
--Comparing systems that allow patients to report adverse drug reactions [Netherlands]: page 36
--Matching the imagery in the minds of doctors and patients [UK]: pages 37-38
PUBLICATIONS: Promoting the quality of life of people with multiple sclerosis: pages 39-41
WEBSITES: ALTER-EU: A movement for openness in EU lobbying: page 43

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Contents:
DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF RESULTS OF SURVEY OF 406 NGOs ON USER-FRIENDLINESS OF NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS: pages 7-30
RESPONDENT GROUPS THAT WANTED TO BE ATTRIBUTED: pages 32-40
COMMENTS FROM RESPONDENTS: pages 42-96

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Contents:
--A new experiment in health financing: pages 33-34
--The background to HSAs: page 34
--HSAs arrive: pages 34-37
--Health campaigners have their say: pages 37-38
--Knowledge about HSAs: pages 38-39
--Consumer engagement: pages 40-41
--Access to information: page 41
--Changing consumer behaviour: pages 42-43
--Potential of HSAs: pages 43-44
--Respondents who wished to be named in the HSAs survey: page 45
--Conclusion: page 46
--Profile of the respondents: page 47
--US respondents' comments (per subject area): pages 48-53
MEMBERS' NEWS
EVENTS: pages 58-60
LETTERS: pages 61-62