Today #EPSCO | EU health ministers met in Brussels. On their agenda:
✔️Smoke- and aerosol-free environments
✔️Pharmaceutical package
✔️Cardiovascular health in the EU
✔️Organ donation and transplantation
👉Read the meeting’s main results: https://t.co/GFKzVn1UWh
Pleasure for me to participate last week on Informal ministerial meeting in Budapest, where cardiovascular health, organ donation and transplantation and implementation of EHDS was discussed.
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#Slovakia 🇸🇰 supported the adoption of Conclusions on Future of EU #HealthUnion ✅
They encompass all the important areas, including work force in health sector, security of supply & access to medicines 💊
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#Slovakia share concerns of the Czech Republic regarding the medicines shortages.
We should be able to find common EU solutions & avoid measures, which are part of solution for some, but might create major problems for the others, as it is the case of parallel trade.
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🇸🇰StateSec Ladislav Slobodník:
Parallel trade leads to shortages of medicines & exacerbates inequalities in healthcare access across 🇪🇺
💊 #Medicines cannot be considered as ordinary goods, but as special goods that heal & save human lives.
#Pharma package 💊 is an important opportunity to ensure #innovative 🧬 and #affordable 📉 medicines for 🇪🇺 citizens but also to ensure incentives for industry R&D 👩🏻🔬👨🏻🔬 I stressed to the representatives of @MSDEurope & @EFPIA the need to fight 💊 shortages & parallel trade in 🇪🇺
After 2 years of very intense negotiations, we have a final deal on EHDS (European Health Data Space) Regulation, which is a game changer in digitalization of Health data. We often perform the miracles in the "kitchen" of Public Health working party.😀
On Friday, I participated on High Level Working Party on Public Health and Chief Medical Officers, where we discussed Health crisis government, EU Joint Actions and effective Health Systems Assessment Performance.
Today, I participated on High Level conference for World Cancer Day. Great event, which promoted joint EU effort to fight against cancer with an emphasis on Europe's Beating Cancer plan and Recommendation on vaccine-preventable Cancer, which was submitted today.
📢Just published: first Union list of critical medicines ➡️ https://t.co/2Dbb1zxEm7
The list includes over 200 active substances crucial for EU patients and health systems, and will guide 🇪🇺efforts to manage and prevent #shortages.
📢Just published: first Union list of critical medicines ➡️ https://t.co/2Dbb1zxEm7
The list includes over 200 active substances crucial for EU patients and health systems, and will guide 🇪🇺efforts to manage and prevent #shortages.
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🇸🇰 Minister Zuzana Dolinková:
💊 #Medicines cannot be considered as ordinary goods, but as special goods that heal & save human lives.
⏩ We should avoid measures which are part of the solution for some, but create major problems for the others.
I am humbled to have been appointed by President @vonderleyen as Executive Vice-President of the @EU_Commission, taking over the responsibilities of @TimmermansEU.
It is an honour to continue rolling out the #EUGreenDeal, with a strong focus on our industries and our citizens.
Emergency services are battling fierce wildfires, as Greece faces the longest heatwave on record.
To support them, we have deployed over 450 firefighters and 7 planes from Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Croatia 🇭🇷, Cyprus 🇨🇾, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Malta 🇲🇹, Poland 🇵🇱, Romania 🇷🇴 and Slovakia 🇸🇰.
Pharma Package 💊 is a major change in the EU’s legislative framework 🇪🇺 With @monika_benova & @Konecna_K we agreed that equal access & affordability of medicines for 🇪🇺 citizens is needed while supporting innovation - addressing the issue of parallel trade is a 🇸🇰-🇨🇿 priority
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Last challenges underlined central role of
#health-its integral part is #MentalHealth💚
For 🇸🇰 it is a priority - our #RRF includes #MentalHealth projects. We appreciate it has become another pillar of #EUHealthUnion
High-quality social connections are essential📍
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#PharmaPackage is unique opportunity to ensure innovative & affordable medicines for our patients & to support 🇪🇺competitiveness
💊We should focus on solutions w/ positive impact on people’s access to medicines & econ. sustainability of #HealthCare systems🏥
Busy start of the week 🗓️ My meeting with Iveta Pálešová from the 🇸🇰 Association of Innovative Pharma Industry #AIFP 💊 focused on the new #EUPharmaStrategy 🇪🇺 Later I met the Head of Economic Section @Mofa_Belgium Sung Gil Chang to discuss 🇪🇺 policies & trade relations 🇸🇰🤝🇰🇷