- Welcome to an exciting 2018 for @EFA_Patients
- I hope you, all our members, supporters, readers and allergy, asthma and COPD patients have had a good, inspiring start of the year. At EFA, we recap on our actions from the previous year to assess
- European Commission proposal on HTA: good news for patients
- On the 31st of January, the European Commission published a new proposal for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) cooperation in the European Union (EU) beyond 2020. EFA welcomes this announcement ...
- Meet&Greet the EU training - Empowering EFA Members on HTA
- In November we welcomed our Member representatives to a thematic Meet&Greet the EU training that this year focused on patients’ involvement on Health Technology Assessment. The meeting gathered 10
- Patients organisations, their added value and importance in decision-making
- In November, the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) published the report gathering key insights and opinions from the European patients’ movement, including EFA’s, demonstrating the added-value through th
- A total of 4.832 signatures for Allergy and Asthma patients
- The 30 September was the last day to sign #CallAllergyAsthma, the political call for European action to improve prevention, care and research on allergy and asthma. The results are impressive!
- EFA Meet & Greet training will focus on European Health Technology Assessment
- EFA is organising next November our annual Meet and Greet training, under the theme of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and patients’ involvement. It will take place on 7 and 8 November at EFA offic ...
- Healthy buildings means less asthma and allergy
- On May 31st we brought the patient perspective to the Healthy Building Day conference at the European Parliament. The event was organised to discuss with three Members of the European Parliament the E
- EFA new Working Group on Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
- In March, EFA launched a call for interest to join a new EFA expert working group on HTA, with the aim to actively contribute to the European Commission works and next policy developments on health te ...
- New website! Steps to take to fly with medical oxygen
- Are you or someone you know going on a trip and need to have medical oxygen therapy on-board a plane? We are delighted to launch a new EFA website to guide people with COPD and any other respiratory p
- EFA selected as a European Commission HTA stakeholder and new EFA Task Force
- We are delighted about the European Commission confirmation that EFA is a suitable stakeholder to become member of the Health Technology Assessment pool network. The HTA Stakeholder Pool will be ...
- Our response to the European Commission HTA consultation
- The European Commission has launched a consultation on strengthening EU cooperation on Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a specialty to measure the added value of a new health technology in comparis ...
- Joint letter to Ministers for Environment with Public Health recommendations for strong NEC Directive
- Ahead of the ENVI Council meeting on 16th December, EFA joined a number of charities in sending a joint letter to Health & Environment ministers on 10th December. The letter urged
- IMI GetReal COPD case study
- On the 9th of September, the Chair of the EFA COPD Working Group, Michael Wilken, represented COPD patients’ views on the IMI GetReal COPD case study workshop held in Frankfurt, Germany. Launched in
- Patients - Industry Dialogue
- On the 22nd of September, the 10th Patients-MedTech Dialogue was held in Brussels. The event was jointly organised by the European Patients' Forum (EPF) and MedTech Europe. Patients and ind
- EFA Members news (April 2015)
- This month patients associations have mobilized at national level through a wide variety of activities to raise awareness about allergy (UK), indoor air quality in schools (Sweden), asthma (Finland),
- EFA in Meetings (April 2015)
- In April we had the pleasure to participate in a training on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to increase patient involvement in development of medicines and medical devices. We also travelled to Sw ...