All healthcare systems today are under pressure to spend their resources wisely and efficiently. Though great improvements have been achieved by strategies to enhance cost-effectiveness and performance of healthcare services within the last 20 years, an OECD report on ‘Wasteful spending in healt...
Healthcare systems today are under pressure to optimise the use of limited resources, as they face rising costs associated with technological developments, more patients with multiple chronic conditions and changing clinical practice. The notion of ‘value-based healthcare (VBHC)’ is increasingly...
Task shifting is viewed by the Expert Panel as the rational assignment of tasks currently undertaken by the health workforce. It represents an opportunity to ensure the most efficient and appropriate contribution of health workers, empowering staff, providing improved access to quality of care a...
Imagine a health professional in any European country who fell asleep in 1960 and awoke in a health facility in 2019. Much of what the observer saw would be quite different. There would be many more patients who were surviving into old age thanks to advances in therapy. Many of the treatments th...
The Commission carried out a series of audits in 25 Member States between 2016 and 2018 to examine what measures Member States have put in place to audit their national control systems to ensure the safety of feed and food. On the whole, the report concludes that whilst all Member States were ca...
Plant health is of crucial importance for sustainable agriculture, food security and environmental protection. It is constantly exposed to new and emerging risks, resulting from the rapidly increasing global trade in plants and plant products and climate change, and illustrated by the frequent f...
