The pandemic may have receded in Europe but the sense of a health care crisis lingers. Multiple meaty challenges are around: medicines shortages, workforce fatigue, strained budgets, drug affordability, supply chain issues, an ageing population \u2014 and that\u2019s on top of looming health threats like antimicrobial resistance, rising infectious diseases and climate change. EU\u2019s ambitious European Health Union embodies solutions to many of these issues and aims to establish a robust crisis response system for new threats on the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the 2024 European elections looming, pivotal health files including the pharmaceutical legislation, European Health Data Space and Substances of Human Origin are racing to be wrapped up. As the curtain falls on a game-changing few years in European health policy making, it\u2019s time for a stocktake of where we are now and how to tackle the next challenge: Europe\u2019s health care permacrisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POLITICO will bring together<\/a> a stellar line-up of speakers, including EFN Secretary General, for a series of interviews and panel discussions, on 24-25 October 2023, in Brussels and online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow on Twitter @LivePOLITICO<\/a> and join the discussion #POLITICOHealthCare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The pandemic may have receded in Europe but the sense…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-othernews"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13011,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=13011","url_meta":{"origin":16845,"position":0},"title":"EFN signs the Manifesto for a European Health Union","author":"efn efn","date":"November 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"2020 has been a very difficult year for all of us, with COVID-19 crisis, and in particular the healthcare professionals as the nurses, being at the frontline 24\/7, since the beginning of the year. \u00a0We need to be realistic; this will not be the last pandemic. 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