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Cross-border healthcare Directive: proven to clarify and guarantee patients' rights (21.09.2018)

During the last three years, the Directive on Cross-border Healthcare (2011/24/EU) has proven to clarify and guarantee patients' rights to receive healthcare in another Member State, according to the latest implementation report the European Commission published today.

Health-EU Newsletter - Voluntary Exchanges: EU’s input helps shape Finland’s social care and health system (13.09.2018)

Head of Unit Pasi Pohjola and Dr Päivi Hämäläinen, a director and a project manager respectively at Finland's Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, discuss Finland’s recent participation in voluntary exchanges with the EU, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Observatory on Health Systems, which are...

European Joint Action on Vaccination (EU-JAV) launched (04.09.2018)

The Joint Action is coordinated by France and is funded in part from the European Union's Health Programme with EUR 3,500,000 euro over three years (Daily News available in French only).

The Jury of the 2018 EU Health Award for NGOs working to prevent tobacco use has been appointed (21.08.2018)

The winners of the Award will be announced in November.

Call for expression of interest for the appointment of a chair and alternate chair of the board of appeal of the European Chemicals Agency (21.08.2018)

The purpose of this call for expression of interest is to allow the Commission to establish a list of candidates to be proposed to the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency. Applications must be submitted by 28 September, 12h:00 Brussels time.

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