Press Release: Public health: Commission stresses need for greater effectiveness, accessibility and resilience for EU’s health systems

In a Communication adopted on April 2014, the Commission layed out an EU agenda for making Europe’s health systems fit for facing current challenges and pressures. It highlighted a number of initiatives the EU can develop and build upon to help Member States ensure that citizens’ aspirations to high quality care can be met. The focus would be on methods and tools that would allow Member States to achieve greater effectiveness, accessibility and resilience of their health systems, in line with reform recommendations addressed to them in the context of the European Semester.

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European Commission: DG Health & Consumers: Public health: Healthcare: Health systems organisation http://ec.europa.eu/health/healthcare/health_systems_organisation/index_en.htm

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