European Patients' Forum

EPF turns 20

20 years of highly effective advocacy campaigns. 20 years of unique multistakeholder collaboration. 20 years of ensuring that patients have a seat at the table. This is the year of our 20th anniversary.

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Our AI Knowledge Hub will help patient organisations and other interested stakeholders to better engage in debates, projects and initiatives on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, both at a national and European level.

COVID-19 Resource Point

We have been collecting reliable information on medicines and vaccine development, as well as research and perspectives from the field. We have also gathered responses and testimonies from patients with chronic conditions: explore the different sections of our COVID19 Resource Point, updated on a daily basis!

Ukraine Crisis Resources Page

All Ukraine crisis related information from our Members

WHAT WE DO

Policy and advocacy

EPF is active in a number of policy areas to ensure that patients' views are incorporated into the EU policy agenda. We develop campaign and advocacy strategies

Projects

EPF has been active in various health-related EU projects over the past few years both as a leader or associate partner to gather patient-related evidence based information

Capacity building

The Capacity Building Programme was designed in 2012 to respond to needs and concerns which have been identified by our membership during previous activities of EPF.

NEWS AND UPDATES

17/11/23 EVENTS PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PATIENT INVOLVEMENT

EPF’s Statement for the European Antibiotic Awareness Day

What can patients do to fight antimicrobial resistance? November 18 marks European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD), an initiative coordinated by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) to promote the prudent use of antimicrobials.

07/11/23 EVENTS PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PATIENT INVOLVEMENT

EPF response to the European Commission’s call for feedback on the revision of the EU Pharmaceutical Legislation

The European Patients’ Forum (EPF) welcomes the long-awaited revision of the EU pharmaceutical legislation. This is a unique opportunity to make the EU regulatory framework for the authorisation of medicines more patient-centred,

26/10/23 EVENTS PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PATIENT INVOLVEMENT

EPF’s position on establishing an opt-out system for the secondary use of health data

The European Patients’ Forum (EPF) welcomes and supports the proposal to establish a European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the objectives put forward by the Commission in relation to the primary and secondary use of data.

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