From local to global: promoting societal impact of pain – ‘Sine Dolore World Park’
by Neil Betteridge Living with pain is hardly a walk in the park. Unless, of course, it’s Sine Dolore World Park, the annual week-long event that uses the concept of a theme park to heighten awareness about the impact of chronic pain. The fourth consecutive Sine Dolore World Park occurs 1-6 May, 2018 in Menorca. Founded […]
Mapping Report Reveals Access Disparities among European Patients
How accessible is your health care? It all depends upon where you live, as a new report from the European Federation of Crohn’s & Ulcerative Colitis Associations confirms. With the help of 32 member associations, the federation worked from October 2016 to December 2017 to examine patients’ access to innovative medicine across 31 European countries. […]
Europeans Work to Turn Health Care Rights into Realities
by Brian Kennedy, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Patient Access Declaring equal rights is a noble gesture. But history teaches us that it is just the first step in a complex, years-long process – actually establishing and protecting those rights. I was reminded of this reality just recently, when I spoke at a meeting of the […]
Making Visible the Invisible on Headache Pain: Sharing Successful Experiences Across Europe
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium GAfPA, in the form of Neil Betteridge on behalf of the European Alliance for Patient Access (EAfPA), was represented at this event which was hosted by Portuguese MEP Sofia Ribeiro. It was organised by the Active Citizenship Network, one of GAfPA’s key partners, which provides secretariat support for the Interest Group […]
