Strong primary healthcare is the foundation of a health system that is effective, efficient and responsive to patients' needs. Although not enough appreciated, primary care can handle most of today's chronic conditions without a specialist referral and produce benefits for the overall healthcare...

Half a million people in Europe are diagnosed with a rare disease every year. No country can meet this challenge alone. European Reference Networks are virtual networks that bring together experts from across the EU. Together, they will tackle complex or rare diseases by improving diagnosis and...

Europhyt - Interceptions is the plant health interception, notification and rapid alert system for the EU Member States and Switzerland, managed by the European Commission. This report presents key statistics on non-EU country interceptions from 2016 and provides analysis of trends in...

The growth of pharmaceutical expenditures due to new high-cost innovative medicines, under the current institutional framework, creates financial challenges to health systems. The recognition that the current path of growth cannot be continued indefinitely leads to the search of new ways to...

The report "Tools and methodologies for assessing the performance of primary care" starts with a definition of the role and goals of primary care, based on previous opinions by the EXPH. From the primary care definition formulated in 2014, 8 domains and dimensions of primary care can be defined....

Faced with growing evidence that some groups within European Union Member States have been unable to achieve access to necessary healthcare, the European Union has committed to action to reduce levels of unmet need, most recently as an element of the European Pillar of Social Rights. In...

European law (Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on Food Information to Consumers (the "FIC Regulation")) requires that most pre-packed foods display a date mark and accompanying wording that explains whether the date signals a threshold in the product's safety ("use by") or its quality ("best...