Working Groups

EPF has launched two pilot working groups in 2014: access to healthcare and patient empowerment. Made of our members, the groups will meet twice a year for an initial mandate of three years to adopt a thematic approach to key policy areas.

The goals of this approach are to:

• Strengthen the synergies between policy and programme of work;
• Increase the effectiveness of EPF’s policy work;
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• Put in place a working structure that can best deliver on the Strategic Plan 2014-2020.

This new method will ensure members are involved from the outset in EPF policy-formulation and activities. It will also help to ensure that the EPF Board and Secretariat focus EPF‘s work on areas that are considered as priority themes by our membership.